The food and beverage industry is the largest manufacturing sector in Brazil, accounting for about a quarter of its value added and for 2.4% of the country’s GDP in 2018, according to the Bꦑrazilian Association of Food Industries (ABIA). 💖...

Argentina has a leading position in the production and export of agricultural commodities, ranking among the world’s ten bi𓄧ggest🎀 producers of soybean, maize, wheat, beef and poultry meat. The agriculture sector plays a major role in ...

Construction is the sixth largest economic sector in Colombia, accounting for 6.5% of the country’s GDP, 5.9% of total FDI inflow and 6.7% of formal employment in𒆙 2018. Over the 2013-2018 period, the construction sector expanded its GVA at a ...

Motor vehicle production was one of the s💯ectors most affected by the recession that began in Argentina in the second quarter of 2018. The deterioration of macroeconomic conditions in 2018 ꦡpushed down both the domestic production and the sales of ...

The performance of the Colombian transportation sector is closely linked to the country’s overall economic s🐬ituation. After remaining flat in 2016, the GVA of the transportation sector gradually accelerated, reaching a 4.1% y/y expansion in Q1 ...

Although Ecuador is the smallest member of the OPEC, the country has a prominent position in the oil and gas sector in Latin America. In 2018, it had the third largest proven oil reserves in the region and was its fifth bigge🌸st oil producer. The oil ...

In 2018, in an environment of economic growth and loose monetary conditions, with the Central Bank keeping the monetary policy rate at a multi-year low ❀of 4.25%, the Colombian banking sector posted a loan portfolio expansion of 6.1% y/y and total ...

The oil and gas sector is important to Colombia’s economy, representing 40% of the country’s total exp🌞ort value and 22.3% of total FDI inflow🌟 as of 2018. The sector is dominated by state-run company Ecopetrol, which, along with its ...

With an output of 34.7mn tonnes in 2018, Brazil remained the world’s ninth largest crude steel manufacturer and the sixth biggest net steel exporter. The country ꦜis also an important player in the global non-ferrous metals processing segment, ...

Colomb🀅ia’s automotive sector is highly skewed towards the production of motorcycles. The country has managed to build the second largest two-wheel motor vehicle iꦐndustry in Latin America, after only Brazil, thanks to high consumer preferences ...