Nicaragua

Prices rose by 0.34% m-o-m in June 2006, compared with 0.72% m-o-m in June 2005. That brings year-on-year inflation to 9.5% at the end of June, against 9.9% y-o-y in May 2006. The... 2006-08-11

Herty Lewites, the former mayor of Managua, who had broken away from the Sandinista party to present himself as candidate for the presidency, has died from an unexpected heart attack.... 2006-07-17

Family remittances are set to rise to US$700mn by the end of the year, according to research commissioned by the central bank. In the period from January to April 2006, remittances... 2006-07-14

BMI View: The consumer price index, CPI, rose by 1.4% m-o-m during April, against a 1.7% monthly rise in April 2005. Year-on-year inflation reached 9.8% at the end of the fourth month,... 2006-06-14

Five candidates have now officially lined up for the all-important presidential contest in November, which promises to be the closest the country has ever seen. The latest opinion... 2006-06-14

Nicaragua secured a key investment project from a major US company, largely thanks to it having signed up to the trade pact, DR-CAFTA ahead of its Central American neighbour, Guatemala.... 2006-05-17

Inflation reached 10.5% y-o-y in February, after registering 10.3% in the first month of this year. In February 2005 inflation was 8.18% y-o-y. Prices rose for food products, notably... 2006-04-20

No sooner had the announcement been made that Nicaragua had fulfilled the requirements for DR-CAFTA than the first shipment of beans and vegetables was sent off to the US to benefit... 2006-04-11

Preliminary figures from the central bank put growth last year at 4%, compared with 5.1% in 2004. Meanwhile the bank's measure of economic activity, IVAE, shows a 5.1% yearly expansion... 2006-03-20

Partial results from the March elections in the autonomous regions of the Atlantic coast give a clear lead to the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC) with 40.3% of the vote,... 2006-03-15