Brazil has rich mineral re🐠sources, making it an important player in the global mining industry. The country ended 2019 with the world’s largest niobium reserves (84.8% of the total)♐, accounting for an overwhelming 87.8% of the global ...

The COVID-19 outbreak shaped the construction industꦓry in Latin America during 2020. The economy of the four largest markets, namely Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia, contracted significantly over the year. The construction ...

In 2020, retail sales in Brazil rose by 1.2% y/y in volume terms, despite the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the contraction of the🎐 country’s GDP by 4.1% y/y. The overall positive performance of the retail sector was supported by ...

Latin America is a resou𒀰rceful regio𝕴n and has tremendous opportunities within its mining sector. From recently emerged stars in mineral commodities, such as lithium, to traditional segments like gold, copper, iron ore and coal, the ...

Latin America was among the hardest-hit regions by the COVID-19 pand🉐emic. The novel coronavirus entered the region at a bad time. The commodities boom at end of the 2000s combined with several local crises afterwards have hurt badly the public ...

Brazil was one of the hardest-hit nations by the COVID-19 pandemic on a global scale, ranking among the top three countries with the highes♌t number of cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus. Brazil’s pharmaceutical industry, ...

Brazil ranked fifth among the main global renewable energy producers in 2019, following China, the United States, Canada and Germany. Among the more traditional energy sources, Brazꩵil is second only to China in hydropower and biomass ...

The transportation sector in Latin America still faces the challenges of most developing 🐻countries: inadequate infrastructure; informality; lack of diversity and limited availability of intermodal services. According to the World Economic ...

The wood and paper sector is one of Brazil’s most compet💖itive industries on an international scale. Its main advantages feature an abundance of available land, favourable soil and climatic conditions and high ...

The electric power sector is usually one of the first industr𝓰ies that are affected by crises, and in Brazil it was no different. The 2015 recession had dampened growth and investmen🍃ts, but 2019 promised a solid recovery in years to come. ...