Colombia’s banking sector, comprising commercial bank🅺s, financial corporations, financing companies and financial cooperatives, has proved resilient to the economic slowdown the country has suffered since 2014. Despite the challenges faced by ...

The mining sector plays a key role in Brazilian economy, accounting for 12% of national exports and for more than 5% of the net FDI equity capital inflow in 2015. Despite the deep recession in the country during the year, marked by a ꦏ3.8% y/y drop in ...

The transportation sector plays a significant role in the Mexican economy. Besides accounting f🎃or about 6% of the country’s GDP and for 5% of the formal employment over the 2011-2015 period, the industry is an important support platform for ...

In 2015, the mining sector of Argentina – which excludes oil and gas𒁃 extraction – accounted for 0.7% of the country’s GDP, a figure that has remained relatively stable since 2011. However, mining plays a key role as the ...

Mexico i𓆉s a key global player in the production of metallic and non-metallic minerals. In 2015, the country was the world’s largest silver producer, with about 20% of global output, the fifth-biggest lead and molybdenum producer, and the ...

In 2015, Chile was the sixth largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America in terms of sales volume, wiꦚth 278mn units sold, and the seventh biggest𒐪 in terms of sales value, with USD 1.53bn, based on ex-factory prices (USD 2.32bn, based on retail ...

Mexico is home to the second-largest ICT sect🌃or in Latin America (after Brazil) in terms of subscriber numbers. Nevertheless, the country presents relatively low penetration rates in the main ICT products and services – such as mobile teleph💖ony ...

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Over 2002-2013, the production and sales of motor vehicles in Brazil expanded at robust CAGRs of 7.8% and 8.9%, respectively. The rapidly growing domestic market attracted a strong wave of in🐷vestment – during the period, a total of USD 24.6bn ...

Argentina’s insurance sector expanded at a CAGR of 6.1% in re🌄al terms between the fiscal years 2011 and 2016 as measured by insurance premium income, outperforming the real GDP growth during the same period (CAGR of 0.9%). The strong ...