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The transportation sector in Latin America still faces the challenges of most developing countries: inadequate infrastructure; informality; lack of diversity and limited availability of intermodal services. According to the World Economic ...

As of the end of 2019, Latin America and the Caribbean accounted for 19.0% of the world’s crude oil reserves and 4.1% of natural gas reserves, turning the region into a prominent player in the global oil and natural gas industry ...

Peru is a comparatively small pharmaceutical market in Latin America (ranking eighth in terms of sales volume in 2018), with a relatively young and growing population. However, public health spending is growing at a rapid pace, particularly in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2018, Latin America consolidated its position as one of the largest and fastest-growing manufacturing and export hubs for motor vehicles. Amidst the sharp downturn of both production and sales of motor vehicles in Europe, Asia and Oceania, Latin ...

The year 2019 was a challenging one for the global automotive industry, which reported a 5.2% y/y decrease in motor vehicle output, ending ten years of continuous growth. On the one hand, key markets reached maximum automobile ...

Peru is one of the leading global players in the production of metallic minerals. In 2018, the country ranked second in the world in terms of mine output of silver, copper and zinc, with global shares of 15.2%, 11.6% and 11.3%, respectively. Moreover ...

Peru is a comparatively small pharmaceutical market in Latin America (ranking eighth in terms of sales volume in 2017), with a relatively young and growing population. However, public health spending is expanding at a rapid pace, particularly in ...

Although the global pharma & healthcare sector is dominated by large multinational companies, mainly from the developed countries, Latin America has been quickly catching up in building a domestic pharmaceutical production base and expanding the ...