Brazil has ricꦓh mineral resources, making it a relevant player in the global mining industry. The country ended 2018 with🐠 the world’s largest niobium reserves (80% of the total) and ranking second in terms of tantalum reserves (31%), iron ore ...

In the past two decades, Latin America has embraced a universal health strategy, 🤪based on the principles of equity, solidarity and collective action. This strategy required steadily growing public expenditure on health in order to guarantee universal ...

Due to a growing and ageing popu༺lation, and an increasing incidence of non-communicable🅠 diseases, Brazil became the seventh largest pharmaceutical market in the world in 2018. During the year, retail drug sales, based on pharmacy purchase price (PPP) ...

Mexico is the second largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America, behind only Brazil, with retail drug sales of USD 10.2bn in 2018. The country also features a growing and ageing population, multip🌞le but underfunded state-run health insurance ...

Brazil’s tourism sector has solid growth potential thanks to the count▨ry’s diverse natural and cultural resources, which were ranked among the top ten in the world by the 2019 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report by the World ...

Argentina has the third-largest ICT market in Latin America in terms of number of subscribers, behind only Brazil and Mex🌼ico.♍ By regional standards, the country also has high penetration rates in the main ICT services: mobile telephony, fixed-line ...

At the end of 2018, Latin America and the Caribbean accounted for 19.2% of the world’s crude oil reserves and for 4.3% of natural gas, making the region among the prominent players in the global🐻 oil and natural gas industry. However, a 🌠lack of ...

A recovering economy and continuing loosening monetary policy by the Central Bank helped shape Brazil’s banking sector’s performance in H2 2018🐽 and 2019. Albeit tepid, real GDP grew for a second year in a row in 2018 and is likely to rise ...

In a Latin American context, Chile is not a particularly large phar꧙maceutical and♔ healthcare market, since its population is relatively small and healthy in terms of the incidence of communicable diseases. However, the country’s changing ...

In 2018, Argentina was the third largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America with retail drug sales of USD 4.9bn. The countr𝔍y has a large and ageing population,ꦡ a relatively developed public health system, and a small but consolidated private ...