According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Central America subregion will grow 3.9% in 2015 and 4.2% in 2016. For Mexico, the IMF predicts growth of 2.3% this year and 2.8% in 2016. The expansion of the Colombian economy will be 2.5% in 2015 and 2.8% in 2016; Chile recorded growth of 2.3% in 2015 and 2.5% in 2016; Peru goes from 2.4% this year to 3.3% in 2016; For Paraguay, forecasts are for significant growth, jumping from 3.0% in 2015 to 3.8% in 2016. For the global scenario of the Latin American and Caribbean economy, the IMF lowered…
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The Institute organized a new working visit, for a group of Portuguese companies, to the cities of Bogotá and Medellín. The Engineering and Construction, Information Technologies and Catering sectors were represented. The visit was accompanied by the Secretary General of IPDAL, who assisted the companies in the various meetings they held with: institutional, commercial contacts, partners, customers, among others. The mission took place from the 26th to the 30th of October and had the support of the Embassy of Portugal in Bogotá, the Embassy of Colombia in Lisbon, AICEP and ProColombia. The Ambassador of Portugal hosted a reception for the…
At the official residence in Bogotá, Ambassador João Ribeiro de Almeida offered a welcome reception to the companies brought by IPDAL to Colombia. The diplomatic representative dedicated the afternoon of October 26th to receiving the IPDAL business mission, made up of companies from the Engineering and Construction, Information Technologies and Catering sectors. The AICEP delegate was also present, who supported the visit with several measures. The Ambassador of Portugal shared with those present his knowledge and advice about the country, the way of doing business and the most diverse aspects of the country’s economic, political and sociocultural reality, reiterating his…
Paulo Neves, President of IPDAL, met with the former President of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires. The former President heads the Pedro Pires Institute for Leadership (IPPL), with whom IPDAL has a Protocol. At this meeting, which took place in Lisbon, they spoke about future joint initiatives. The Pedro Pires Institute will participate in the V Meeting of the “Strategic Triangle: Latin America-Europe-Africa”, which will take place in Lisbon in April 2016. Still in the first half of next year, there will be a joint initiative by IPDAL and IPPL in Cape Verde also to talk about Atlantic triangulation.
The II International Conference With All and for the Good of All will take place in Havana, organized by UNESCO. IPDAL joins the effort to publicize this initiative, which will take place between the 25th and 28th of January 2016, at the Convention Palace in the Cuban capital. This event aims to encourage and systematize a plural debate of ideas among “people of good will” from all over the world, and to place José Martí’s thought, essentially ethical in all its expressions, at the service of dialogue for the construction of understandings around the need for policies aimed at objectives…
The President of IPDAL participated in an International Meeting on Iberoamerica, in Madrid, and had lunch with the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs. Paulo Neves was invited by Casa de América to the conference “Iberoamérica nos une”. The Meeting featured interventions by the Head of Diplomacy of Madrid, José Manuel García Margallo, the General Secretary of SEGIB, Rebeca Grynspan and the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Edgardo Riveros, among other personalities. After the Conference, a lunch was hosted by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, to which the President of IPDAL was invited.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) predicts that the economies closest to the United States will register positive levels of economic growth. در بین کشورهای آمریکای جنوبی، بولیوی نرخ رشد تولید ناخالص داخلی را رهبری می کند، نرخ 4.4 ٪ را ثبت می کند، به دنبال آن پاراگوای با 3.3 ٪ و کلمبیا با 2.9 ٪. پیرو 2.4 ٪ و شیلی 2.1 ٪ رشد خواهد کرد. طبق ECLAC، برای آرژانتین رشد 1.6 ٪ و اکوادور 0.4 ٪ باقی خواهد ماند. However, due to the unfavorable climate in some of the region’s main economies, ECLAC revised downwards its…
According to the Latinobarómetro study, Ecuador and Bolivia were the countries in the region that recorded the most significant socioeconomic progress. These progresses are relative to public perception and, overall, these two countries were able to improve their indicators. According to the public opinion study – which has been monitoring the development of democracy, economy and society in Latin America for 20 years – Ecuador is the country where the majority of citizens understand that the distribution of wealth is fair (49% of the population) . In Bolivia, this number rises to 42%. With regard to the perception of insecurity,…
The President and Secretary General of IPDAL met with the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev. On November 3, 2015, the Institute’s leaders were invited by the Ambassador of Bulgaria, Todor Stoyanov, to the event where the Head of State of this country was present. IPDAL supported the organization of the business seminar, collaborating with the embassy in sending invitations and contacting some of the main Portuguese companies. In his intervention, President Plevneliev highlighted the importance of Portugal as a bridge to Latin America and Africa, which the remaining European countries must know how to take advantage of.
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The World Bank argues that, in order to face the reduction in raw material prices and zero economic growth, Latin American countries must readjust their external accounts and reduce internal spending. This is the fourth year of economic slowdown in Latin America and no growth is expected in 2015, according to Augusto de la Torre, the World Bank’s chief economist for Latin America. The Fitch Ratings agency warned, in September, that the slowdown in China’s growth and the weakness in raw material prices represent additional challenges for Latin American exporters, putting their external and fiscal defenses to the test. In…
At the Closing of the initiative “The Pacific Alliance – Partnerships with Portugal”, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation considered that IPDAL is responsible for bringing Portugal closer to the region. On September 28th, IPDAL organized, in partnership with the law firm Uría Menéndez-Proença de Carvalho, an event that also served as the theme for the presentation of the Ibero-American firm PPU – Philippi Prietocarrizosa & Uría. At the Literary Guild, there were representatives from PPU Chile and PPU Colombia, as well as Dr. Daniel Proença de Carvalho, from Uría Menéndez – Proença de Carvalho. A conference…