14/08/2005 |
Crafting A Money Transfers Strategy: Guidance For Pro-Poor Financial Service Providers - PDF
Jennifer Isern and others | CGAP
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13/08/2005 |
Petrobras Considering Fuel Price Adjustment in Brazil as Private Refiners Await Solution
WMRC Staff | WMRC
Petrobras is contemplating adjusting domestic fuel prices as the Ministry of Mines and Energy and oil regulator ANP look for a solution to avert the permanent closure of the country's private refineries. ...
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13/08/2005 |
Inflation Accelerates in Mexico in July
WMRC Staff | WMRC
Consumer prices rose 0.39% month-on-month in July, the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) said yesterday, in line with Global Insight's expectations and pushing 12-month inflation up to 4.47% from 4.33% in June. ...
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11/08/2005 |
Oil: Perils at the pump
The Economist Staff | The Economist
Oil prices hit yet another record this week, on fears of political instability in the Middle East and refining problems in America. So far, the world economy has managed to chug along without much ill effect. But how long can consumers go on paying ever more at the pump without cutting back elsewhere? And why aren’t high prices bringing new supplies to market? ...
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11/08/2005 |
Costa Rica: Mitos y Realidades del TLC con EE.UU.- PDF
Juan Carlos Hidalgo y Juan Ricardo Fernández | El Cato
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08/08/2005 |
Balancing democracy, market economy
Carlos Alberto Montaner | Hacer - Washington DC
In a recent survey about the causes of people's misery, conducted among college students in Lima, Peru, a clear majority of the respondents blamed the capitalist system for almost all the woes besetting the world. In a similar exercise in Argentina, the results were even more impressive: 62 percent blamed the market economy and, of course, perfidious Americans. ...
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08/08/2005 |
EL CAFTA desafía a la mentalidad anticapitalista
Rigoberto Stewart | Diario Exterior
"El presidente de Costa Rica Abel Pacheco no ha enviado el DR-CAFTA (siglas en inglés del tratado comercial entre República Dominicana, Centroamérica y Estados Unidos) al Congreso para su discusión porque le tiene pavor a los sindicatos (cuasi-dueños) de los monopolios estatales, los cuales han amenazado con tomar las calles y desestabilizar es país si lo hace". ...
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08/08/2005 |
El ''autismo económico'' latinoamericano
Andrés Oppenheimer | Miami Herald
El entusiasta informe que acaba de publicar la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe de las Naciones Unidas (CEPAL), anunciando un tercer año consecutivo de expansión económica en la región, dio lugar a titulares llenos de optimismo en toda la región. El problema es que el estudio sufre de ``autismo económico''. ...
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08/08/2005 |
Eight Companies Agree to Migrate Their Operating Contracts in Venezuela to Joint Ventures
WMRC Staff | WMRC
The Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has announced that it has signed an accord with eight companies that have agreed to migrate their 13 operating service agreements to mixed companies. ...
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08/08/2005 |
Ecuador: Head of Petroecuador Resigns After Requesting Annulment of Occidental Contract
WMRC Staff | WMRC
The Alfredo Palacio administration has lost its second head of state oil company Petroecuador, while one of the country's leading oil producers faces the risk of having its contract terminated. ...
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