En un contexto en que la economia mundial esta recobrando cierto impetu, las economias de America Latina y el Caribe estan recuperandose de una recesion a escala regional en 2016. Esta mejora gradual puede interpretarse como una historia de dos ajustes, uno externo y otro fiscal, que estan...

The world economy and global trade are experiencing a broad-based cyclical upswing. Since October 2017, global growth outcomes and the outlook for 2018-19 have improved across all regions, reinforced by the expected positive near-term spillovers from tax policy changes in the United States....

The Chilean economy is recovering from a prolonged slowdown that started with the decline in copper prices in 2011 and intensified over the past two years. The new administration, which took office in March, aims at reinvigorating investment and economic growth through structural reforms, but a...

Bolivia has requested a purchase under the RFI to cover the urgent balance of payments need arising from an ongoing shift in its terms of trade, slowdown in capital flows, and sudden increase in health care expenditure needs, precipitated by the COVID-19 epidemic. Staff assess that Bolivia meets...

The pandemic continues to spread in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), but economic activity is picking up. After a deep contraction in April, activity started recovering in May, as lockdowns were gradually eased, consumers and firms adapted to social distancing, some countries introduced...

El crecimiento en buena parte de America Latina sigue siendo solido, si bien se desacelero en el segundo semestre de 2011 debido al efecto combinado de la adopcion de politicas mas restrictivas y las incertidumbres mundiales. Segun nuestro escenario base, el crecimiento en America Latina y el...

Para America Latina y el Caribe, la actual turbulencia mundial aparece enmarcada dentro una confluencia de shocks negativos: la paralizacion del mercado de credito mundial, el debilitamiento de la demanda externa y el descenso de los precios de las materias primas. Se preve que la region podra...