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3 Sep 18
A lack of public investment has been linked to the catastrophic fire that gutted the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil yesterday.
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24 Aug 18
Argentinian police have begun raiding the country’s former president’s properties as part of a major corruption investigation.
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8 Aug 18
Colombia has secured international financing for the development of a $4.3bn metro in the capital.
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8 Aug 18
Argentina’s former vice president has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison after being found guilty of corruption while he was a public servant.
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30 Jul 18
Mexico’s newly elected president has pledged to boost the country’s long-neglected oil sector, he announced on Friday.
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24 Jul 18
Argentina is stepping up the fight against financial crime by launching an academy with the OECD to train law enforcement officers.
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2 Jul 18
The Bahamas is to shore up the resilience of its public finances to the effects climate change with a $100m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank.
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2 Jul 18
Andrés Manuel López Obrador has swept to victory in Mexico’s presidential elections on a pledge to wipe out corruption, which he said was driving social inequality and violence.
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29 Jun 18
The frontrunner in Sunday’s election promises to resurrect a strong state but his enemies say he is a false prophet, writes Gavin O’Toole.
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27 Jun 18
The World Bank has approved $30m to help Grenada strengthen climate resilience and support its transition to a ‘blue economy’, focused on conserving marine resources.
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26 Jun 18
The World Bank has approved a $300m loan to improve healthcare services in Bolivia.
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14 Jun 18
The Argentinian president’s humiliating plea for a $50bn credit line from the IMF could be unpalatable to those with bitter memories of previous Fund ‘meddling’, writes Gavin O’Toole.
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11 Jun 18
Guatemala must boost spending on social protection and infrastructure in order to help more citizens escape poverty, says the IMF.
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6 Jun 18
The new government of Barbados has launched emergency plans to deal with the country’s economic crisis and restructure public debt in the hope of achieving financial stability.
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14 May 18
Nicaragua’s violent unrest highlights the danger faced by unpopular leaders who tinker with retirement systems, says Gavin O’Toole.
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10 May 18
Argentina is seeking emergency help from the International Monetary Fund in a bid to strengthen and stabilise its economy.
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1 May 18
Jamaica is to develop a public financial management policy for disaster risk, the minister of finance and the public service has announced.
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26 Apr 18
Accrual accounting is “fundamental for informed decision-making”, Jamaica’s auditor general has said, as she called for greater adoption of international accountancy standards.
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24 Apr 18
Conservative former senator Mario Abdo Benitez has been elected president of Paraguay, pledging to retain low tax policies and boosting agriculture exports.
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10 Apr 18
The island’s new leader should ignore the doom merchants and make a virtue of its mixed economy, writes Gavin O’Toole.
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9 Apr 18
Regaining citizens’ trust in public institutions is key to resuming inclusive growth and wellbeing in Latin America and the Caribbean, a report by international development bodies has found.
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21 Mar 18
The United States has banned any financial transactions involving Venezuela’s new Petro cryptocurrency.
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13 Mar 18
Venezuela’s cryptocurrency is pretty much made out of thin air and is a desperate measure made by a country suffering one of the worst economic crisis of modern times, says finance academic Daniele...
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13 Mar 18
Jamaica’s economic growth continues to “disappoint” despite its successful reform programme, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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5 Mar 18
Brazil must introduce further reforms to ensure inclusive growth and unleash its full economic potential, the OECD has warned.