Latin American Business Environment Report (LABER)
This annual report, written by CIBER Associate Director Terry McCoy, provides a comprehensive examination of Latin American business conditions. It tracks social, political and economic trends both for the entire region and its 20 largest markets individually.
2008 LABER Executive Summary
Up to mid-2008 the Latin American business environment was encouraging. It looked as though the region would not be seriously affected by the credit crisis and economic slowdown in the United States. But in September and October, when global financial markets collapsed, it was clear that Latin America would not be spared, some countries more than others. The outlook for 2009 turned decidedly negative as shown in the table below.
Grouped into three broad categories - "Attractive," "Problematic," and "Mixed" - according the overall character of their environments, the arrows indicate improvement (
) or weakening (
). An "=" sign signifies lack of significant change, while "?" means the trend is unclear. Since 2003 the number of attractive environments increased. In 2008 Brazil was upgraded, but the 2009 forecast is that the business environments in all 18 will weaken or not change significantly.
Latin American Business Environments
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| Totals | 7 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 6 | |
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