Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The Colombian Center for Economic and Social Research, Fedesarrollo, presented the results of its Business Opinion Survey for July 2024, revealing that the Consumer Confidence Index (ICCO) had increased to 17.0%, an 8.4% increase compared to the previous month.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The National Survey of Living Conditions (ENCOVI) for 2023 reveals that the working-age population (PET), i.e., those aged 15 years and older, reached 11.4 million in 2023.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Brazilian consumers have closely followed and based their spending habits on retail prices, seeking to purchase more for less.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: The Ecuadorian fishing sector is eagerly awaiting the European Union’s decision to lift the yellow card sanction imposed in 2019 due to concerns about Ecuador’s inadequate measures against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: DANE’s 2023 report on monetary poverty in Colombia, released in July, presented promising figures, but also ongoing challenges.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: The economic fragility, rising poverty, and political crisis in Peru are evident in the widespread perception of inequality among its population.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) ranked Mexico as the country with the second lowest economic growth in Latin America from 2019 to 2024, a period that coincides with President Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: The Argentinian government is extending the concessions granted to four hydroelectric plants whose contracts expired in August, as it seeks to procure new bids for their operation.

Issue Aug 07-13 2024: Between July 2022 and June 2023, Latin America received 7.3% of all global cryptocurrency, according to a study by Chainalysis; among Latin American countries ranked by cryptocurrency holdings, Ecuador came in eighth at $7 billion.

Issue Aug 01-07 2024: An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) revealed that legalizing undocumented migrants in the United States would economically benefit the country as their tax contributions would increase.