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Economics Latin America

The United States’ risky investment into Cuba

The United States’ rapprochement with its former Caribbean adversary has shined a new light on a more risky situation for American investors, who are lining up for access to the Hemisphere’s last remnant of the Cold War. America’s reversal on its decades-old isolationist policy…

Economics Latin America

Trouble in paradise for Barbados?

The underperformance of the economy of Barbados has posed questions about the country’s overall growth prospects. The geographical beauty of Barbados is underpinned by a relatively incorrupt and politically stable

Economics Latin America

Levy coordinates ambitious recovery plan for Brazil

After a year of fiscal slippage, rising inflation, and negative projections showing that Brazil’s GDP will shrink 0.42% this year, President Dilma Rousseff has empowered her new Minister of Finance, Mr.

Economics Europe

Confidence in EU Increases Amid Economic Crisis

Recent months have seen a significant boost in European business and consumer confidence, according to the latest official statistics published by Eurostat in late July. The data show that the