Latin America

Retail e-commerce jumped 36.7% in 2020, to $84.9 billion in sales throughout the region in 2020 driven by the pandemic and lockdowns.

With tourism struggling and fiscal troubles looming, Central America and the Caribbean see commodities and tech as economic lifelines.

Struggling to control Covid-19 and obtain vaccines, Latin American governments are hoping commodities exports will pull them through.

Some of the most venerable institutions among this region of island nations are thriving in spite of the Covid-19 crisis.

Ricardo Cuesta Delgado, Produbanco CEO, talks about how the bank is protecting Ecuador’s Amazonian populations during the pandemic and extending its digital services to benefit all of its customers.

Sagasti’s first order of business will be restoring trust in government. 

Central America and the Caribbean won’t revert to normal post-Covid. Digitization, diversification and infrastructure investment are contributing to a regional transformation.

Julio Velarde, chairman of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, talked to Global Finance about the impact of Covid-19 and expectations for the future.

The president of the Central Bank of Brazil talks to Global Finance.

José Cantero, president of the Central Bank of Paraguay sits down with Global Finance to discuss how the current state of the world is affecting Paraguay’s economy.

Governor of the Central Bank of Chile shares insights with Global Finance.

The governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic speaks to Global Finance.

Emerging and developing economies will likely be hardest hit by Covid-19. Rebuilding will require addressing preexisting conditions as well as the new ones.

More than half of Brazil’s 209.5 million people do not have access to water or sewer services.

Latin American banks recognized by Global Finance are recommitting to customer service—with digital tools.

A squeeze on jobs and wages in the US and other developed countries will translate into fewer remittances, affecting less-developed regions such as Central and Latin America.

Investment in Latin America is drying up because of the global pandemic.

Guatemala continues to expand amid social tensions, crime and COVID-19.

Central America is set to maintain above-average economic expansion in 2020.

Seeking to bounce back from a lost half-decade, Latin America still faces declining global demand and internal unrest in much of the region.