Issue Oct 02-08 2024: A number of organizations including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and Chile’s Office of Agricultural Studies and Policies (ODEPA), stressed the critical need for increased funding to boost efforts to halve per capita food loss

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: Argentina is rapidly becoming a focal point for international mining investments, particularly in the lithium sector, as global demand for critical minerals essential to the energy transition continues to grow.

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: During the fiscal year 2023, the Panama Canal facilitated the transport of approximately 285.8 million long tons of goods, including petroleum derivatives, chemicals, petrochemicals, nitrates, and phosphates.

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: Sharecropping in Ambato has provided residents with extra income despite the lack of land.

Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: Almost all Nicaraguans, 99.5%, “have a bad perception about the future,” according to the results of the eighth survey of Perception of the Political, Social, and Economic Reality of Nicaragua presented this past September.

Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: Illicit trade in Costa Rica now accounts for 2.6% of the country’s GDP, with the lack of strong regulatory frameworks and the complexity of the tax system playing key roles in the growth of organized crime networks throughout the region.

Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: In a year marked by economic challenges, ProInversión, Peru’s private investment promotion agency, has emerged as a beacon of optimism.

Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: Despite exports performing well, Ecuador has experienced a decline in the economy compared to last year.

Issue Sep 18-24 2024: Though remittances in Nicaragua promote growth in some sectors of the economy, they do not prevent certain segments of the population from continuing to go hungry, which encourages more migration, according to the August 2024 Situation Report, prepared by the Fundación Sin Límites para el Desarrollo Humano (FSL).

Issue Sep 18-24 2024: The idyllic relationship between the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and Argentine President Javier Milei took a new turn yesterday when the two met in New York during Milei’s visit for the 79th United Nations General Assembly.