Latin America

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS): Sustainable Results in Challenging Environments

From building shelters in Haiti or helping to improve the school system in South Sudan, to buying medicines in Myanmar…

11 years ago

Zurich Insurance Company: Insurance in Latin America – Economic Growth Brings New Opportunities

To continue its success story, Latin America will need to address a number of socio-economic challenges. Insurance has the potential…

11 years ago

Peter Macnee: IFC Helps Virgin Mobile Find Untapped Demographic

For Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) Latin America is virgin territory. Barely 0.5% of installed network capacity is currently leased…

11 years ago

Emmanuel Nnadozie, ACBF: Africa – BRICS Partnership Is Growing Rapidly

Emerging trends show that recently the BRICS group has become a major force in the global economic arena. The OECD…

11 years ago

Alessandro Carlucci: Going Global on Intuition and Emotion

Ethics and aesthetics: That is what Alessandro Carlucci sells as CEO of Brazilian cosmetics firm Natura, now wrapping up its…

11 years ago

Corporate Tax and Transfer Pricing Forum Brazil

With frequent and significant changes occurring to Brazil’s corporate tax and transfer pricing rules in the last year, it is…

11 years ago

Fata Morgana in the High Alps: Musings on Davos

While currencies crumbled in emerging markets ranging from Turkey to Argentina, the world’s mostly self-appointed leaders and assorted hangers-on gathered…

11 years ago

José Piñera Echenique: Robbing the State of Its Piggy Bank

Chile owes a debt of gratitude to the Piñera family. This debt may not always be universally acknowledged but most…

11 years ago

Carlos Slim: Timing Is Everything – Seizing the Moment to Build a Fortune

Estimates of the exact size of his fortune vary, but Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim is up there with the…

11 years ago

CFI.co Meets the CEO of Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz: Alberto Valdés Andreatta

Mr Valdés Andreatta, CEO of Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz (BMSC), was born on March 21, 1966 in Bolivia’s capital city…

11 years ago