The combined value ꦕadded of Brazil’s transportation, warehousing and postal services fell by 6.8% y/y at the end of 2016, indicating weaker performance of the industry than that of the overall economy, with the GDP contracting by 3.5% ...

Argentina hosts the third-largest ICT sector in Latin America in terms of 🥀subscribers, after only Brazil and Mexico. In regional terms, the country also has relatively high penetration rates in the main ICT products and services – such as ...

ICT is part of the more broadly defined Transportation, Commu🧔nication and Information (“TCI”) sector.💃 Colombia’s TCI sector claimed a share of 7.0% of the national GVA, or around COP 55.5tn, in 2016, remaining stagnant compared to ...

Mexico’s construꦓction sector accounted for 8% of the country’s GVA, 5.6% of FDI inflows and 8.1% of the labour force in 2016. Construction activities followed a downward trend during the first nine months of 2017, as a result of lower ...

The wood and paper sector is one of Brazil&rsqu🍒o;s most competitive industries on an international scale. The main advantages of the country a🧸re the abundance of available land, the favourable soil and climatic conditions and the high forest ...

Mexico is a regional leader in꧅ electric power genera♋tion. Since 2013, when the energy reform was introduced, Mexico is undergoing a major energy transformation. It featured the introduction of a wholesale electricity market, and enabling private ...

The real estate sectorꦚ - one of the key drivers of the Brazilian economy in the past decade - was not shielded from the deep recession in the country over the 2015-2016 period. It suffered from oversupply, lower demand, limited loan financing, ...

Mexico is the second-largest economy in Latin America in terms of nominal GDP, and thereby a key consumer market in the region, with a population of over 122.8mn pe🎐ople, as of December 2016. Over the period 2011-2016, the trade sector ๊performed well, ...

In line with the beginning of the economic recovery in 2017, motor vehicle output and sales in Brazil rebounded after a prolonged period of contraction. Since 2014, the automotive sector in the country has experienced one of the deepest crises ꦉin its ...

Given its strong positiv🙈e correlation with the overall economy, retail was one of the sectors most severely hit by the economic recession in Brazil over the 2015-2016 period, which was marked by a de👍teriorating job market, falling wages, persistently ...