LAC’s insecure economies
Publication Name:
EUISS ISSUE Alerts
Volume, number, page:
4, pp.1-2
Year of Publication:
2016
Editor(s):
EUISS
Organization Name:
European Union Institute for Security Studies
Acronym:
EUISS
Publisher:
EUISS
City:
Paris
Country of Publication:
France
Full Date:
January 2016
ISBN or ISSN:
978-92-9198-378-0
Considered Countries:
Brazil
Argentina
Venezuela
Mexico
Chile
Peru
Category:
Official Documents
Keyword(s):
Economy
International economy
Latin America
Economic conditions
economic crisis
Political situation
Abstract:
With falling commodity prices, slowing Chinese growth and tightening financial conditions, the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have once again revealed their vulnerability to global headwinds – albeit to varying degrees. Dragged down by the faltering economies of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela, the region has been experiencing economic deceleration for the past five years, with 2015 marking the first of overall regional contraction since 2009.
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