The food and beverage industry is the largest manufacturing s꧒ector 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 Brazilian Association of Food Industries (ABIA). ...

Argentina has a leading position in the production and export of agricultural commodities, ranking among the world’s ten biggest producers of soybean, maize, wheat, beef and poultry meat. The agricult🐼ure 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 in 2018. Over theඣ 2013-2018 period, the construction secꩵtor expanded its GVA at a ...

Mot𝓡or vehicle production was one of the sector𓆉s most affected by the recession that began in Argentina in the second quarter of 2018. The deterioration of macroeconomic conditions in 2018 pushed 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 si🌳tuation. 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 biggest 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 sect🍸or 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 export value and 22.3% of total FDI inflow as of 2018. The sector is dominated by sܫtate-run company Ecopetrol, which, along with its ...

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

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