The combined value added 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, w⛦ith the GDP contracting by 3.5% ...

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

ICT is part of the more broadly de🐻fined 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 ac🍃counted 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 Braಞzil’s most competitive industries on an international scale. The main advantages of the country are the abundance of available land, the favourable soil and climatic conditio🍬ns 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 introd🌸uction 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 ov🐭ersupply, 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 r👍egion, 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 the beginning of the economic recovery in 2017, motor vehicle output and s﷽ales 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, persistently ...