Latin America

It sometimes feels as if in Latin America, with its even bigger gulf, the same thing is true on a larger scale.

Latin America comes out of the exercise relatively well: the yields of its main crops are expected to fall by only a few percent.

DANIEL YERGIN: Bolivia may be a *all country, but it had a very big impact in terms of kick-starting reform throughout Latin America.

The official said much of that investment would be directed toward the United States, Europe and Latin America.

Defoe was an enthusiast for Latin America and persuaded the British government to set up a company to trade with the region in 1711.

Finally, better infrastructure: African road capacity is half that of Latin America and less than a third of Asia's.

What caused the gap with the United States to widen was a pair of disastrous periods for Latin America.

The integration of a joint venture in Latin America helped Reebok post its first overall revenue increase in more than a year.

In Latin America, the ongoing machinations surrounding last month's disputed presidential election result continued to dominate the news.

Brazil wants to be the dominant power in Latin America, while China's increasing trade with the region is turning it into a competitor.

Finally, Guatemala is one of Latin America's most rural societies, which makes it a nightmare for pollsters.

China is ready to strengthen coordination and cooperation with Brazil to jointly push for China-Latin America relations.

Scholarship winners from Latin America and the Caribbean spend a year at a journalism school in the United States or Canada.

Furthermore, Latin America is younger and more urbanized than Asia, making it a highly productive partner for the United States.

Argentina is ready to continue pushing forward China's relations with regional organizations in Latin America.

The country's income disparity is close to that of Latin America, the report which came out in January, said.

Chen Shui-bian has made surprise visits to Libya and Indonesia on his way home from Latin America.

The company sells about 60% of its phones in the U. S. and the rest mostly to dealers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

All this seems to point to a slow maturing of democracy in Latin America.

By contrast, euro-zone governments were able to pile on debts for a decade way beyond what would have been tolerated of Latin America.

Mr Gulliver said the bank would continue this trend, with plans to hire 3, 000-5, 000 staff a year in Asia and Latin America.

Migrants working in the 30-OECD nations come from all over the world - in the case of the United States, many hail from Latin America.

His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these.

Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, the Subcontinent, not to speak of Latin America, were all seized long before Mesopotamia or the Levant.

One of the most violent earthquakes recorded in history occurred in Latin America in 1906, which had the equivalent of 100 H-bombs.

Within a few years of the crash, 16 countries suffered military coups or takeovers by strong men in Latin America alone.

One of Latin America's most advanced economies, Chile has been a darling on Wall Street for its free-market ethos.

He said the Chinese government released its first policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean in 2008.

At a 34-country Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, Barack Obama called for a "new partnership" between the United States and Latin America.

It is considered to be one of the cities with the best quality of life in Latin America.

Mr Lugo takes his place in a cohort of left-wing leaders who have come to power in Latin America in the past few years.

Since then, gambling operations have been trying to win back lost profits in Europeand Latin America.

Some of the highest abortion rates are in Latin America, where abortion is all but outlawed.

Argentina is ready to become an important platform for China's cooperation with Latin America.

If it is to become a middle-class society, Latin America's first priority must be to improve the quality of schooling.

Liugong (pronounced lu-GONG) exports equipment to most parts of the globe, with a particular emphasis in Latin America and Southeast Asia.

In terms of volume, the company had its biggest sales growth in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Now, also like Keynes, Prebisch may be due for a comeback, at least in Latin America.

They're easy to find if you're willing to spend days on end crawling around in the cloud forests of Latin America.

Choosing whether to go to Spain or to Latin America, Raines adds, largely depends on your feelings about risk.

Just a decade ago, Asia, Latin America and Russia were on financial life support from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

She says much of that will support business training and development programs in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Washington would most likely have reacted long ago if it were truly concerned about Chinese political influence in Latin America.

Latin America is reasserting its independence in an attempt to free itself from centuries of imperialist domination.

Production problems in Latin America continued to provide support to US prices.

Speaking in Chile, he said Latin America was fundamental to the prosperity and security of the US.

We're providing delivery service in parts of Asia and Latin America, and adding double drive-thru lanes to help serve busy customers faster.

China began an extremely fast recovery around March 2009, pulling the rest of East Asia, Australia, and parts of Latin America up with it.

It has only a modest presence in most of the rest of Asia as well as Latin America and Eastern Europe.

The informal economy is one way in which Cuba is becoming more like the rest of Latin America.

The report says in Latin America, growth is up over the past two years, but is still too low to make strong inroads into poverty reduction.

Few companies have had the head start in places like Africa, China, India and Latin America that Unilever enjoyed.

But despite occasional appearances to the contrary, the United States continues to have both vital interests and influence in Latin America.

Santander, finding much of the emerging world outside Latin America closed to it, has shifted its strategy.

Clinton is on a six-nation Latin America trip that has already taken her to Uruguay, Argentina and briefly, to Chile.

"President Obama has a historic opportunity to improve the relationship with Latin America, " he said.

But Chile, in common with many other parts of Latin America, is in an enviable position from which to defeat poverty.

So why are McDonald's workers in the U. S. or Western Europe earning up to 10-times more than in India, China, or Latin America?

The company manufactures toys in Asia, imports them to the United States and exports them to Latin America.

Like-minded industries have sprung up in Africa, Latin America and other parts of Asia.

The company has substantial packaging businesses in five geographic areas - Australia, North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

What was once a popular disease in Africa, America and Haiti is now a growing threat in Asia, Western Europe and Latin America.

CDC laboratory work so far has established that the Haitian cholera strain is one that's been identified in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

With fertility rates crashing in Asia and Latin America, half of the increase in population over the next 40 years will be in Africa.

The Churches of Chiloe represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture.

The first wave [of investment] was caught up in the Asian financial crisis, the devaluations in Latin America and the rouble crisis.

In Santiago Mr Obama is to give a speech setting out his vision of relations with Latin America.

Traditional medicine is generally available, affordable, and commonly used in large parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

After all, the public-health systems in much of sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia and Latin America are rudimentary at best.

Even so, they continued to invest in Latin America, albeit at a less frenetic pace.

In the 80s Latin America emerged from the dark days of military dictatorship with the hope that democracy would bring social justice.

The relationship also enables Evercore to build up a presence in Asia commensurate with its growing profile in Latin America and Europe.

Investors are pouring into farmland in the U. S. and parts of Europe, Latin America and Africa as global food prices soar.

and then the Sun chemical has factories in Latin America, they plan to upgrade all ink product line of quality, service and creativity.

President Chavez is today welcoming Ecuador into a regional organization that seeks to resist US influence in Latin America.

"I personally think these countries' investment in Africa and Latin America can benefit [everyone] so that it is win-win, " he said.

With three out of Latin America's four biggest economies reluctant, hopes for a regional agreement were dashed.

Do you think you have eliminated all the former Nazi officers scattered around the world, particularly those in Latin America?

On this Latin America trip, thrown into confusion by an earthquake in Chile, we have already visited four countries in 24 hours.

East Asia has done better than Latin America, showing that lower fertility alone does not determine economic success.

The word's literal translation is 'little black man', but generally, it is not considered a racial slur in Latin America.

Its companies are "colonising" swathes of Africa and Latin America, cosying up to regimes Westerners shun.

Many emerging markets, especially those in Asia and Latin America, have much to lose if the crisis over currencies is not solved quickly.

Her novels have been bestsellers in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Australia, and been translated into more than 27 languages.

As the U. S. military finalized the target sets for cruise missile strikes, Mr. Obama was beginning a five-day swing through Latin America.

Germany's brightest business prospects do not involve its slow-growing neighbours but the charismatic economies of Asia and Latin America.

But still, it said per capita income would be one-fourth the U. S. level, comparable to Malaysia or Latin America.

Public-opinion polls in Latin America show far higher approval ratings for President Obama than those of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Although there are tilapia farms in the U. S. , the fish does better in tropical climates, so most of it comes from Asia or Latin America.

But many emerging economies in Latin America and Africa would also be hurt, he said, because they sell masses of commodities to China.

A richer, fairer Latin America is within reach, but a lot of things have to be put right first, says Michael Reid.

If Colombia reverts to more conventional democracy, the rest of Latin America will be waiting to see if she can make it work.

Brazilian Ping-Pong is not among the top ones in the world, but it's in the leading position in the Latin America region.

Trapped, she grows wings (an echo of the magical realism born of the dark times in 1970s Latin America).

It recently announced plans to open a factory with an Argentine partner in Uruguay, its first venture in Latin America.

In Latin America, the strength of recovery has been impressive, but momentum appeared to wane in the second half of the year.

This will remain a distant prospect as long as Latin America is divided and Europe is preoccupied with its own woes.

NARRATOR: All across Latin America, governments began to sit up and take notice.

POVERTY may be rising in Europe and the United States, places that thought they had conquered it, but in Latin America it continues to fall.

But in Latin America, a more developed region, China is just one of many foreign investors.

Relations with Latin America have been getting closer since the signing of the North American Free-Trade Agreement with Mexico in 1992.

At the beginning of the Cold War, U. S. didn't offer government assistance to Latin America, letting the monopoly to exploit freely.

will also be very engaged with Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.

At the moment, Latin America and east Asia are suffering from collapses in demand in their export markets.

Plenty of them visit this region: San Miguel de Allende is one of Latin America's most popular destinations for US tourists.

However hard it looks to put this global jigsaw together, there were some encouraging unilateral moves, especially from Latin America.

In Africa and parts of Latin America predictions are just as hair-raising.

Perhaps most importantly, Latin America is fundamental to any strategy for energy self-sufficiency.

Expect to see a wave of foreign investment from America and Europe into Asia, Latin America and even Africa.

It was reported that Latin America was the main investment spot of mobile private capital.

The remaining 10 percent of global activity takes place in Latin America, Emerging Europe and the Middle East and Africa.

On bilateral economic cooperation and trade, Jiang said that Cuba is now one of China's major trade partners in Latin America.

North America and Latin America were the only two regions to suffer a decline in the number of HNWIs.

"In terms of geographical areas, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia, Latin America and China are still doing well, " Mr Mittal said.

"It will be interesting to see who ONGC and Sinopec send to Latin America to oversee their investment, " Mr Hurd says.

But even before the latest market turmoil, economic growth in Latin America was expected to slow, to around 4% a year.

This lady and his husband adopted two kids from Latin America, a boy and a girl, one was from Chile and the other from Peru.

If he continues on the same path, Latin America's democrats will soon have to consider whether he belongs in their clubs.

One of Essar Energy's missions is to scour the globe for oil and gas assets, from refineries in Africa to oil fields in Latin America.

ACROSS the Far East, Latin America and Central Europe, new pulp mills are springing up and existing mills are being extended.

Most of all, a lending binge in Africa and Latin America is an old film with an unhappy ending.

With Soviet help, Mr. Castro lent military troops and political backing to help spread Communism in Africa and Latin America.

Long used to operating as monopolies, bourses in Asia and Latin America now face competition from alternative trading platforms.

HIV is predominantly among networks of men who have sex with men in Latin America.

In Latin America many young entrepreneurs operate in an informal economy where innovation is rare and capital hard to come by.

Did the organism evolve to mildness in a place like Chile, which has some of the most well-protected water supplies in Latin America?

But they have also made it one of the few countries in Latin America where income inequality has recently risen.

An alarming surge in the practice over the past decade has surfaced in Latin America, the long-running leader in kidnapping.

Four decades later there is growing momentum in the US and Latin America to abandon the fight and legalise drugs, or at least marijuana.

"Guatemala has the fourth highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world and the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean, " she said.

It's her account of a teenage mother with AIDS in Latin America.

Finally, regular and credible elections are one of Latin America's greatest recent achievements, given its history of military coups.

Mexico is the first country in Latin America to introduce such a rule (Brazil will follow later this year).

Cities are restraining population growth, just as they have in Asia and Latin America.

Mexico, Latin America's top tourist destination, attracts 20m foreigners a year.

Venezuela is one of the most violent countries in Latin America, and unfortunately there are no official statistics to monitor the violence.

SHORTLY after taking office, Barack Obama promised Latin America that he would usher in a new era of partnership.

In 1959 Cuba was already one of the five leading countries in Latin America on a variety of socioeconomic indicators.

Latin America needs to increase savings rates and to transition to a more knowledge and capital-intensive economy, says the report.

Other extremely resource-rich regions include Russia, Mongolia, the Middle East, Latin America, Australia, Canada, and the U. S.

More than a million immigrants from Mexico andelsewhere in Latin America have returned home in the last two years.

Historically, the United States built up its soft power in Latin America through three sources: ideas, institutions, and policies.

' Ms. Mosquera said. 'In Latin America, governments are no longer so willing to encourage investment without conditions. '

Europeans and Americans are not used to looking to Latin America for economic guidance. Pernambuco suggests they should.

Even as they celebrate their progress, Latin America's politicians should take it as a spur to further action.

If GDP growth depended purely on population increase, Africa, Latin America, Indonesia and the Philippines would be rich and powerful today.

But others condemned a dictator with a repressive government that spread communist revolution in Latin America and Africa.

The news also boosted markets across the rest of Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Greece is being asked to do what Latin America did in the 1980s. That led to a lost decade, the beneficiaries being foreign creditors.

Most recently, major oil and gas discoveries off the Brazilian coast promise to substantially shift the balance of power in Latin America.

While the US and the UK have hit an air pocket, real estate markets in Latin America, Asia and eastern Europe are still climbing.

Mr. Hernandez has over 12 years of experience in managing multimillion US$ projects in the USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Accounting for purchasing power, it is one of the five richest countries in mainland Latin America.

That will not worry the German firms whose focus is increasingly Asia and Latin America.

Exporters of natural resources, from Australia to Africa and Latin America, have been stand-out beneficiaries of the stimulus.

Company sales channels across the country and abroad in Europe, America, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

But for Latin America two other questions may be just as important, if not more so.

Yet U. S. growth is still higher than the 8% average in the Middle East and Latin America; Europe's wealth growth was an anemic 4. 8%.

But thawing relations were of little help to Mr Bush as he sought to draw Latin America into the FTAA.

Such dilemmas are familiar in Latin America as it has moved from dictatorship to democracy.

But many in Latin America saw Mr Zelaya's arrest in his pyjamas as an unacceptable throwback to the region's dark past.

Latin America proves that the unforgettable work of Karl Marx has not lost its importance and contemporary urgency.

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in earthquake-stricken Chile, the third stop on her six-nation tour of Latin America.

In Latin America, Japan, Turkey and Eastern Europe, people are less convinced that China has passed the U. S. economically.

Latin America's rich were the least affected: they lost 6% of their wealth, and the number there fell by less than 1%.

After lending mishaps in Latin America in the 1970s his bank has an abiding desire to be cautious.

Between the nineteen forties and sixties , the Rockefeller Foundation helped launch the "Green Revolution" in Latin America and Asia.

Nowadays the battle waged across the Florida Straits is largely a propaganda one for influence, especially in Latin America.

Most immigrants to the United States, legal and illegal, come from Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

asia remains the center of growth , but the middle east , eastern europe , and latin america continue to show strong growth as well.

The working poor of Latin America need change and the United States of America is committed to that change.

The recipients are far from random, and fit the bill of strategically chosen countries throughout Latin America and Africa.

America would not tolerate Russia intruding into its geopolitical sphere in Latin America.

In many newly democratic parts of the world, including most of Latin America, its roots are spreading wider and burrowing deeper.

Data gathered by the FT from business schools point to a younger but growing executive education market in Latin America.

There's a million a year who leave Latin America to go to the United States.

In Latin America, because of economic conditions and lifestyle, they usually eat every bit of their food.

They have been winning rail projects across the world, including in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and Australia.

Latin America can be very proud of its past and its present, and we can view our future with optimism and enthusiasm.

Magic realism, as one of the literature schools, is formed and developed in modern Latin America.

Ivonne Baki, 48, of Ecuador, is the dark horse candidate from Latin America.

There was considerable weakness in Latin America as well as pockets of sogginess in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.

As NPR reported in 2009 on Morning Edition, Miami continues to be a destination for patients from the Caribbean and Latin America.

The ILEA initiative is a multinational effort organized by the United States and 85 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Before the meeting Mr Zoellick embarked on a two-week tour of Africa, Europe and Latin America to build support for his candidacy.

Indeed, the OAS is still seen by the left in Latin America as a yanqui poodle.

Economists said faster growth in Asia, Europe and Latin America and a weaker dollar was increasing demand for US goods.

The department expects food security gains in Asia and Latin America to be offset by worsening hunger in sub-Saharan Africa.

Today, the U. S. actually gets most of its imported oil from Canada and Latin America.

But the fact remains that Latin America, according to the United Nations, is the least equal of all the areas of the world.

And it was a disaster for the FARC and its sympathisers in Latin America who hoped to use the hostage issue to weaken Mr Uribe.

Explores the political, economic, social, and cultural ties that bind Latin America to the United States.

If the region's leaders rise to the challenge, we stand poised to see the 2010s become the decade of Latin America.

"Because of this openness, many brands see Chile as a test market for the region and a gateway to Latin America, " Mr. Errandonea said.

In Western Europe cannabis consumption is stable, but it has increased in the continent's east, as also in Latin America.

Charity-About three-quarters of respondents in the U. S. and Latin America said wealth enabled them to give to charity.

Even the underdeveloped Latin America have very clear that democracy is the voice of the masses, particularly the ones that lack education.

He called Mr Obama "ignorant" about Latin America after the United States' president accused him of exporting terrorism.

Media firms are investing in pay-television markets in Latin America, eastern Europe and Asia, which can be expected to grow.

The impact would be varied elsewhere, with Asia and Latin America slowing but the Middle East gaining as oil export revenue rose.

You would be surprised to at the number of Chinese brands in Africa, SE Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

It spends 1% of its fast-growing GDP on research, half the rich-world share but almost double the average in the rest of Latin America.

Spanish speakers, meanwhile, can look beyond Europe for jobs, with the economies of Latin America forecast to boom during the coming decade.

Second, a stronger currency increases the relative cost of Chinese goods in third markets, like Europe or Latin America.

The company's record is strong enough that about 12 sites among Australia, Europe and Latin America are employing it.

Canada, Australia, parts of Africa and Latin America, and the oil-producing countries all benefited from these trends.

US refiners are, meanwhile, exporting hundreds of thousands of barrels of unwanted diesel to Latin America each day.

This meant live performances at any time of day or night, often broadcasting live to Latin America at half past one in the morning.

"I'm a bit more optimistic, " says Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist in the World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean region.

Clear incentives and legal safeguards are needed if Latin America is to attract the private capital that could overhaul its infrastructure.

In his later years, Mr. Castro became the role model to a new generation of leftist leaders in Latin America.

Mexico, which has served three previous terms on the council, was unopposed in its bid for the Latin America and Caribbean seat.

Nearly one out of four people in Latin America lives on less than two dollars a day.

Can the leftist governments of Latin America sustain their fight against inequality in the face of global economic recession?

That social inequality is greater than in the U. S. and India, and approaches the vast gap associated with Latin America.

While trade has boomed, Chinese investment in Latin America has hitherto amounted to less than meets the eye.

Financial crises used to start in the developing or emerging economies: in Latin America, Asia or Russia.

Comparatively, Latin America at the secondary position in the U. S. Cold War Strategy.

At this time, the monkeys Tijiao favorite, was the voice of Latin America's longest and most resonant.

Rodriguez also said that documents disclosed wiki Inside the United States policy in Latin America's true intentions public.

Nearly one out of four people in Latin America live on less than two dollars a day.

The answer was to promote structural change and industrialisation in Latin America.

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Mr Ahmadinejad has made two visits to Latin America, taking in Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia, as well as Venezuela on both occasions.

Last month a German public broadcaster accused WWF of being too close to GM food companies working in Latin America.

Certainly, no one is claiming that, leaving farming to one side, Latin America is a world leader in productivity.

Coffee arrived in Latin America several decades later, when the French brought a cutting of a coffee plant to Martinique.

Seeing Latin America as a grand strategic prize rather than the object of congressional politicking is Obama's fundamental challenge.

Australia is a more influential nation in South Pacific Ocean, which lies between Asia, North America and Latin America.

El Salvador was also considering establishing links with other offices in the Central American and Latin America regions.

Health throughout sub-Saharan Africa and in large parts of Latin America and Asia has still not recovered from these mistakes.

In contrast, Panama has not budged, reinforcing its reputation as Latin America's leading financial miscreant.

But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says production has increased sharply in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Building on this success demands new thinking, both within Latin America and north of the Rio Grande.

Whereas in Europe the dog- and cat-food markets are equal, in Latin America dog food outsells cat food by nearly six to one.

Havana, once a pariah, has returned to the international fold and recently hosted leaders from Latin America, Asia, Russia and the EU.

The exhaustion of the Western alliance has coincided with the growing buoyancy and assertiveness of Asia and Latin America.

These banks can offer competitive loans and less onerous conditions to borrowers in Africa, Latin America or the poorer parts of Asia.

But still, it said per capita income would be one-fourth the US level, comparable to Malaysia or Latin America.

In 1959 Cuba was already one of the five leading countries in Latin America on a variety of socio-economic indicators.

Epidemic cholera still remains throughout parts of Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Chinese aid programs to Africa and Latin America are not limited by the institutional or human rights concerns that constrain Western aid.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the numbers continued to improve and there are now 275 000 people on treatment in this region.

The Madrid-based company, which specializes in flights to Latin America, also said it has filed for bankruptcy.

Markets in Latin America, especially Brazil, are becoming more important for the Spanish firm as growth at home stalls.

Merengue is now said to be the most popular dance music in all of Latin America.

It has a direct impact on the French revolution, Asia, Latin America's national independence movement plays a role.

Phone calls and e-mails have come from Latin America, some from Britain, and even Morocco as well as from Spain.

Cadbury has a booming chewing-gum business, particularly in Europe and Latin America, an area where Kraft has little expertise.

Michelle Bachelet is poised to become the first woman president of one of Latin America's most conservative countries.