Chile’s banking sector is one of the most developed and competitive in Latin America. It is deep, solvent and highly integrated with the global economy. D🔯espite more subdued eജconomic growth since 2014, provoked mainly by a drop in international ...

Brazil is among the l𝓀eaders in the global IT market, accounting for 1.9% of the worldwide sales of hardware, software and๊ IT services in 2016. During the period the country was also the undisputed regional front-runner, responsible for 36.5% of the ...

Mex🐼ico is a traditional oil-producing and oil-exporting country. For the last 7🔴8 years, the sector has been dominated by state-run energy company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), which took over all upstream and downstream oil and natural gas ...

Chile has one of the most developed ICT sectors 💫in Latin America♛, with a relatively modern infrastructure and above-average penetration rates. Additionally, in 2015 and 2016, Chile was the best-performing country in the region in the network ...

Peru is the sixth largest economy in South America in terms of nominal GDP, as well as an emergingconsumer market with a population of over 31.5mn people as of December 2016. Du🔯ring 2011–2016, thetrade sector performed well with gross value ...

The agriculture, liౠvestock and fisheries sector in Brazil plays a key role in the domestic economy, accounting for 4.7% of total GDP, 24% of total export value, and 3.7% of total employment in 2016. The GDP of the sector registered a 6.6% y/y ...

Construction is among the largest economic sectors of Peru in terms of share of total GDP, ranking fourth behind only oil and gas, industry and trade. In 2016, construction accounted fo♑r 6.3% of domestic G෴DP, 1.5% of total FDI stock and 5.3% of ...

The deep economic recession in Brazil in 2016 pushed down the demand for loans and the profitability of the domestic banking system. The value of outstanding loans decreased for the first time in two decades, by 3.5% y/y to BRL 3.1𒆙tn (USD 954bn), ...

Brazil is the eighth-largest pharmaceutica🍃l market in the world. In 2016, the retail drug market, based on ex-factory prices, rose by 15.5% y/y to BRL 87.2bn, supported by upward price dynamics🦂 and steady demand for innovative patented drugs. In ...

Argentina is the second-largest economy in South America after Brazil in terms of nominal GDP. It is an important consumer market with a population of ཧover 43.6mn people, 𒁃as of December 2016. During the period 2011–2016, the trade sector ...