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Honduras / Economy
We have revised up Honduras's short-term political risk ratings again this month, thanks to ongoing improvements on both the domestic and external fronts. One key area to benefit is 'policy continuity', with little threat on the horizon (either constitutional or otherwise) to President Porfirio Lobo Sosa's new administration. The 'security/external threat' component has also improved,...
2010-03-09Costa Rica / Economy
Costa Rica's public debt burden rose to 42.3% of GDP in 2009, up 2.9 percentage points on the previous year. Although considerably lower than the 60% of GDP level reached in 2004,...
2010-03-09Guatemala / Economy
Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom is backpedalling to restore confidence in the country's security institutions, after another series of high-level corruption allegations. On February...
2010-03-09Country Risk Rating
Honduras
We have revised up Honduras's short-term political risk ratings again this month, thanks to ongoing improvements on both the domestic and external fronts. One key area to benefit...
2010-03-09Costa Rica
Costa Rica's public debt burden rose to 42.3% of GDP in 2009, up 2.9 percentage points on the previous year. Although considerably lower than the 60% of GDP level reached in 2004,...
2010-03-09Guatemala
Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom is backpedalling to restore confidence in the country's security institutions, after another series of high-level corruption allegations. On February...
2010-03-09El Salvador
The Inter-American Development Bank approved on February 19 a US$200mn loan to finance a programme aimed at improving El Salvador's public finances. The programme will come as a welcome...
2010-03-09Costa Rica
Agreement on a free trade deal between Costa Rica and China should provide an early boost to the incoming Laura Chinchilla administration. However, with the deal predominantly favouring...
2010-02-12Costa Rica
We have lowered our short-term economic risk ratings for Central America as the region continues to face an uphill struggle to recover from a challenging global macroeconomic environment....
2010-02-10Honduras
BMI View: Tough monetary policy measures implemented by Honduran central bankers at the outset of the last year's political crisis ensured that the country avoided a destabilising...
2010-02-03Nicaragua
BMI View: Although the recession may well have passed we do not expect to see a sharp bounce back of the Nicaraguan economy in 2010, with private consumption and investment appetite...
2010-02-02Honduras
BMI View: The diplomatic cold shoulder many regional leaders will cause little concern for the new Honduran president, provided Porfirio Lobo Sosa's administration can maintain...
2010-03-05Panama
Panama's long-term political risk ratings have been downgraded slightly on the back of growing concerns over the impartiality of the country's judiciary. The move to replace a popular...
2010-02-24Costa Rica
Laura Chinchilla has won the presidential race in Costa Rica on February 7, paving the way for another four-year term for the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN). Her main policy...
2010-02-08Costa Rica
BMI View: Central America is likely to experience spiraling levels of drug-related crime in 2010, with regional governments relatively powerless to counter the influence of local...
2010-01-08
