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

Argentina hosts the third-largesꦰt 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 broad🌄ly defined Transportation, Communication 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 construction sector accounted for 8% of the country&rsqꦍuo;s GVA, 5.6% of FDI inflows and 8.1% of the l🍒abour 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’s most competitive industries on an international sꦚcale. The main advantagesꦅ of the country are the abundance of available land, the favourable soil and climatic conditions and the high forest ...

Mexico is a regional leader in electric power generation. 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 sector - 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 l🗹oan financing, ...

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

In line with theꦗ beginning of the economic r🌄ecovery 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 in its ...

Given its strong positive 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 deteriorating job market, falling wages, persiste🌃ntly ...