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2 Dec 21
The new Honduran president has come to power with the promise to revamp the Central American country’s struggling economy by increasing the size and reach of the state.
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21 Oct 21
Brazil’s economy minister has said the country’s spending cap could be breached to allow the government to expand its welfare programme.
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4 Oct 21
The World Bank has approved a loan of US$500m to strengthen Argentina’s efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
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30 Sep 21
More than 75% of Venezuelans now live in extreme poverty, fuelled by the nation’s economic crisis, a study has claimed.
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20 Sep 21
Argentina's leader Alberto Fernandez has called for unity in the South American country, as it attempts to recover from a financial crisis exacerbated by Covid-19.
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17 Sep 21
El Salvador has been warned its adoption of bitcoin as a legal currency earlier this month could lead S&P Global to downgrade its rating.
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16 Sep 21
Colombia’s president has approved new tax reforms after lawmakers replaced proposals that sparked countrywide demonstrations against the government earlier this year.
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14 Sep 21
Costa Rica’s fiscal consolidation efforts have been buoyed by an International Monetary Fund deal and rising revenues – but political tensions and gridlock in its congress risk pushing its progress...
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3 Sep 21
Mexico’s new finance minister has confirmed that the government will continue to offer support to state-owned oil company Pemex, which is in billions of dollars of debt.
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1 Sep 21
El Salvador’s legislative assembly has voted to create a $150m trust to help smooth the introduction of Bitcoin as an official currency next week.
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10 Aug 21
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro has revealed his proposal to pay for his government's rocketing court order costs through a fund financed by the sale of state-owned companies.
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4 Aug 21
Brazil’s federal government is preparing to pay 90bn reais (£12.5bn) in court orders next year, nearly twice its recent level, leading the economy minister to propose a solution likened to “a default...
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3 Aug 21
One month before El Salvador formally adopts Bitcoin as legal tender, the International Monetary Fund has published a warning that cryptocurrencies are “too volatile and unrelated to the real economy...
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22 Jul 21
Colombia’s government has presented new tax reforms to replace earlier proposals that were scrapped amid mass protests.
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16 Jul 21
International Monetary Fund officials are negotiating a deal aimed at sorting out Argentina’s $45bn debt it currently has with the fund, a spokesman has said.
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5 Jul 21
Brazil’s supreme court has authorised an investigation into president Jair Bolsonaro’s response to a Covid-19 vaccine procurement deal amid allegations he ignored irregularities in the process.
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23 Jun 21
Argentina has reached an agreement with debtors to defer the majority of a $2.4bn loan repayment for nine months to avoid another default.
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8 Jun 21
Stuttering tax reforms in Colombia need to raise more money than planned if they are to bring debt to a level conducive to a strong economic environment, a government advisory committee has concluded.
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8 Jun 21
El Salvador's president is pushing a new law to adopt Bitcoin as a legal currency, a move he said would help lift millions out of poverty in El Salvador.
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26 May 21
Growth in Central American and Caribbean nations is set to lag behind that in similarly-rated counterparts as Covid-19 exacerbates underlying financial weaknesses, according to ratings agency Fitch.
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24 May 21
Peru’s credit outlook has been revised down to negative because of a polarised and fractured political system, according to ratings agency Moody’s.
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21 May 21
Guatemalan authorities have detained critics of the government, including several investigators who built a corruption case against a former president.
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14 May 21
Finance ministries need to be at the forefront of the coordinated approach that governments need to take to deal with environmental challenges, a study has found.
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4 May 21
A tax on Argentina’s richest citizens collected 223bn pesos (£1.7bn) for the struggling government to spend on its ongoing response to the pandemic.
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4 May 21
Colombia’s finance minister Alberto Carrasquilla announced his resignation yesterday, after controversial tax reforms were scrapped following civil unrest.