Monthly Archives | December 2011
New Challenges for Microsavings
December 30th, 2011
READ MOREGraham A. N. Wright, program director in MicroSave India acknowledges that even the poor are attached to savings and have found ingenious ways to save. Nevertheless most informal saving mechanisms have failed to meet their needs in a convenient, cost-effective …
Argentina: Amado Boudou is on Charge
December 30th, 2011
READ MOREIn a note published some days ago in our blog we mentioned the economic challenges faced by Argentinean reelected president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Surprisingly she was diagnosed with cancer and vice president Amado Boudou will become the guarantor of …
Is US Government Conspiring Against Latin America?
December 30th, 2011
READ MOREAs we mentioned in the first note, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was diagnosed with cancer. Several Latin American leaders suffered the same condition in the last months, including Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Dilma Roussef and Lula of Brazil and Venezuelan …
A Gender-Balanced Lending Portfolio
December 30th, 2011
READ MOREMost microfinance clients are women and this financial option has been considered as an option for their empowerment throughout the world. The situation is changing. Elena Bridgers, a social researcher based in France, has published an article on the Stanford …
Emerging-market Stocks Decline
December 30th, 2011
READ MOREWhile Latin American markets remain in calm in the present financial turmoil, some emerging-markets are showing the effects of the European crisis that began in Greece some months ago. A note published by Bloomberg News reveals that emerging-market stocks fell …
Latin American Exports Grew 26% in 2011
December 29th, 2011
READ MOREA report by the Inter-American Development Bank says that from last year Latin American exports grew 26% for a total of US 1.1 trillion in 2011. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia, members of the Andean Community, saw the biggest increase …
Latin America: The Best Returns in Emerging Markets
December 29th, 2011
READ MOREA note by Ye Xie and Nathan Gill, reporters in Bloomberg News asserts that dollar bonds in Latin American countries (from Panama to Uruguay) had the best returns in emerging markets this year, a trend that may continue in 2012. …
Davitel to Reach 9,000 Triple-Play Subscribers
December 29th, 2011
READ MOREDavitel is an Argentinean telecommunications company that offers the triple play (the provisioning of high-speed Internet access, television and telephone over a single broadband connection) in the city of Neuquén. It launched operations in 2003, when it obtained a concession …
The Success of Google+
December 29th, 2011
READ MOREThe social network developed by Google, owner of the most relevant search engine in the net, adds 625,000 new users daily which may total 400 million members by the end of 2012, reveals an independent analysis made by Ancestry.com Inc. …
Consumer Confidence Jumps
December 29th, 2011
READ MOREThe Conference Board, a U.S. based research, firm asserts that consumer confidence shot higher for the second month in a row in December. The overall confidence index increased 14.3 points in November and 9.3 in December. It has reached 64.5 …