All indications are that Mexico will meet its foreign and domestic debt obligations in 1999.
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Real Challenges
LatinFinance talks to Alvaro Guerrero-Ferber, the man recently put in charge of Ecuador’s aborted privatization process, and asks what to expect in the year ahead.
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The Limits of Austerity
Lawmakers approved Mexico’s 1999 budget by the skin of their teeth; but with renewed capital flows far from certain, how long can the economy bear up under increased austerity?
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What’s Old is New Again
In the scramble to devise lasting solutions for Brazil’s fiscal troubles, Berkeley professor Barry Eichengreen, IDB chief economist Ricardo Hausmann and Jurgen von Hagen of Indiana University have recently reached […]
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Hurdling Mexican Bank Barriers
The proposed easing of restrictions on foreign ownership in Mexico’s banking sector reported by LatinFinance in May (Right Place, Right Time, Issue 97) appeared to be tailor-made for Banca Serfin […]
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Informal Benefits
In keeping with its reputation as a land of innumerable paradoxes, Mexico usually produces a silver lining to every kind of cloud-even when those clouds are laden with cement. In […]
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No Place Like Home (building)
It may sound like Dorothy’s refrain from the “Wizard of Oz,” but when it comes to Mexico’s construction industry right now, there is clearly “no place like home.” That is […]
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In their own words. (Lacey Gallagher)
Lacey Gallagher, Standard and Poor’s After working early in her career on Asian development policy, Lacey Gallagher became an analyst in the bank supervision area for the New York Federal […]
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Lacey Gallagher, Standard and Poor’s After working early in her career on Asian development policy, Lacey Gallagher became an analyst in the bank supervision area for the New York Federal […]
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In their own words. (Nicholas Lands)
Nicholas Landes, Banco Popular Nicholas Landes returned to his native Ecuador in 1982 as general manager of Citibank’s operations in that country. In late 1985, he saw an opportunity to […]