Country Report
Country Report Mexico
Mexico’s economic growth starts to pick up and its economic outlook is also improving, as all intended structural reforms are approved. The most important one, energy, is likely to contribute the most.
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Economic Comment
Brazil and elections aftermath: what next?
Yesterday, president Dilma Rousseff won a second term in office in a tight race. Her victory does not bode well for the highly-needed structural reforms in the country.
Country Report
Country Report Honduras
Honduras is a country with a weak institutional structure and poor public finances. While the government seems to have reduced its deficit, fiscal challenges remain sizeable.
Country Report
Country Report Panama
Supported by infrastructure projects economic growth in Panama is strong. Whether these projects will boost growth structurally, to an extent that it will outweigh a loss of short-term infrastructural investment-driven growth, remains to be seen.
Country Report
Country Report Costa Rica
Intel has announced that it will relocate its production plant to Asia, severely denting Costa Rica’s GDP. Furthermore, with the government failing to address structural fiscal problems, Moody’s has downgraded the sovereign to below investment grade.
Country Report
Country Report Peru
Economic growth has slowed down strongly in the first half of this year, but is likely to pick-up in the second half of 2014 and afterwards. Meanwhile, the well-regarded Finance Minister Luis Miguel Castilla was replaced in September 2014.
Economic Comment
Mondiale economie kabbelt voort (Dutch)
De groei van de wereldeconomie versnelt langzaam. Zoals verwacht vertragen de economieën in de opkomende markten, geleid door China, en versnellen de economieën in de geïndustrialiseerde wereld. Ondanks het iets vertraagde herstel in de eurozone.
