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Thursday, 21 December 2023 05:14

Investment funds in the country increase 100.01%.

The Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero released a report on the current state of the country's investment funds for the month of november, which shows an increase of 100.01% inter-annual growth in their assets.

Published in Finances

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has delivered its latest economic report for this year, in which it states that Latin America and the Caribbean will grow 2.2% in 2023 and 1.9% in 2024, which implies a slowdown in regional growth with respect to the levels observed in 2022.

Published in Economy

Economic improvements do not always imply social improvements; that is why the Fifth Meeting of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in conjunction with the XV Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), opened today in Santiago, Chile.

Published in Breaking News

According to the latest statistics from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the unemployment rate in Latin America and the Caribbean was 7% in 2022. In other words, 93% of the regional labor force is inserted in the labor market.

Published in Economy

The report Tax Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023, reveals that the average tax revenue as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased 0.8 percentage points in 2021, to reach 21.7%, which is the same level as in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published in Economy

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, indicated in his most recent meeting that the annual growth rate of investment in the region is low.

Published in Economy

The executive secretary of the Comisión Económica Para América Latina y el Caribe (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar, said at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum that the average growth rate for the last ten years (from 2014 to 2023 inclusive, considering the 1.3% growth projection for the current year) is only 0.9%.

Published in Breaking News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Program through a statement released that in Latin America food inflation has accelerated more than general inflation since 2020.

Published in Economy

Senior officials from governments and international organizations, along with representatives from the private sector, development and commercial banks, and multilateral and bilateral cooperation partners, will participate in the Roundtable on Climate Finance and Energy Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held on september 1-2 at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

Published in Breaking News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) projects that of the group formed by Central America, El Salvador will grow 2.5% in 2022, as announced today in its annual report "Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022: dynamics and challenges of investment to promote a sustainable and inclusive recovery".

Published in Economy
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