Latin America’s Growth Trap: Low Investment and High Crime Hold the Region Back

Latin America’s Growth Trap: Low Investment and High Crime Hold the Region Back

(Analysis) The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean reports that the region’s economies will grow just 2.2% in 2025. This rate is the lowest of any major region in the world. Latin America invests on average around 20% of its GDP, far below East Asia’s more than 25%. This slow pace of investment […]

Latin America and the Caribbean endures a prolonged period of low growth: 2.2 percent in 2025 and 2.3 percent in 2026 - Caribbean News Global

ECLAC presented a new edition of its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025, in which it stresses the region’s urgent need to mobilize more resources to overcome the development traps that characterize it. LATIN AMERICA/ CARIBBEAN – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented today a new edition of its annual report Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025: resource mobilization t…