Issue Aug 14-20 2024: DANE’s 2023 report on monetary poverty in Colombia, released in July, presented promising figures, but also ongoing challenges.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Issue Aug 01-07 2024: Seven powerful, private healthcare companies in Brazil, dubbed the “Seven Sisters of Health,” have significant control over the national economy, according to research by Eduardo Magalhães Rodrigues, a postdoctoral scholar in political economy.
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Issue Aug 01-07 2024: Bolivia seems to be headed towards an economic situation very similar to that of Venezuela.
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Issue Aug 01-07 2024: A series of economic moves by the Milei administration in Argentina have been welcomed by the agricultural sector.
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—Researched and Written by Lucía Armengol—Issue Jul 01-312024: In the face of an inflationary crisis and economic conditions reminiscent of the “Special Period” of the 1990s, the Consejo de Ministros has announced the adoption of “war economy” policies in Cuba. The conditions of Cuba’s “war economy” include new uniform pricing policies for state and private
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