Foreign direct investment and innovative financial structures are upgrading the tourism infrastructure.
Category: Regions
A country under-mined
Efforts are underway to increase foreign investment in the mining sector.
Where are the aficionados now?
With the boom years of the nineties long gone, manufacturers in one of the Dominican Republic’s most distinctive industries – cigar production – must now confront a further period of […]
A Dollar Republic?
Could the Dominican Republic be a candidate for dollarisation? It shares some obvious characteristics with El Salvador, which recently adopted the dollar: most notably a high dependence on the US, […]
Will the good times roll on?
The country’s free zones have created 200,000 jobs and an export boom, but are now trying to stay out of the chill winds from a US downturn.
The Local Latin Leader
Banco Itaú consistently makes more money than any other domestically owned bank in Latin American , and is ready and able to resist the advance of US and European players.
A Dominican Rebound
Despite intense market volatility in September, the Caribbean country was able to raise $500 million with a debut global bond. The issue is an effort to develop the Dominican Republic’s yield curve.
Going Big, Going Wide
Banorte, Mexico’s leading regional bank, has bought Bancrecer, a bank with a strong branch network in an attempt to create a powerhouse operation that serves the enitre country.
Competent, Committed and Controversial
With three decades of finance experience and long alliance with Peru’s president and finance minister, newly appointed Prime Minister Roberto Dañino could add another shot of credibility to Toledo’s administration. But critics view Dañino as an opportunistic outsider.
People
Enter QuirogaOn August 7, an unpretentious 41-year-old engineer wearing Bolivia’s red, yellow and green presidential sash, stood in the Casa de la Libertad in Bolivia’s capital city and took over […]
