En Español ‘Nearshoring’ – whereby companies shift their offshore production capacities closer to home – is experiencing significant growth in Latin America amid the coronavirus pandemic. As OBG has detailed, supply chain disruption created by the pandemic has led many multinational companies to rethink their production operations. Even prior to Covid-19, a ‘China+1’ strategy…
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Oxford Business Group (OBG) began its CEO Survey in 2016 with the aim of giving our clients a handle on sentiment in the various markets we cover. Sentiment is of course intangible, but it is an all-important factor in the decisions business people and investors make when they weigh up their risk appetite. In turn, sentiment informs the level of confidence with which they view a market. It is also…
En Español While 2019 was a rather mixed year for Colombia’s economy, the country closed the year on a positive note, with 3.4% GDP growth. According to the IMF, this was due to responsible monetary policy, sustained private consumption and a rebound in public spending. Importantly, Colombia was the only large economy in Latin America that experienced growth of over 3%, well above the regional…
As the world’s nations and businesses become increasingly interconnected, so too does the flow of global migration. According to the OECD’s “International Migration Outlook 2018” report, in 2017 some 258m people resided in a country other than the one they were born in, and over 5m foreign-born persons were permanently settled in OECD countries. This flow of people not only brings benefits…
In English En un contexto de crecimiento económico positivo, el gasto de los hogares en Colombia ha evolucionado favorablemente en 2019 gracias a unas bases macroeconómicas sólidas y a factores demográficos. Un estudio realizado por Raddar, empresa especializada en el conocimiento del consumidor, mostró que el gasto de los hogares aumentó un 5,5% interanual durante los primeros 10 meses…
In this Global Platform video, Salvador Sánchez, lead partner of agri-business industry, Deloitte México, and Juan José López Forastier, lead partner of agri-business industry, Deloitte Argentina, talk about the importance of global agriculture and the effect of agri-business on the environment. Latin America has a number of competitive advantages in the agri-food sector, such as location, beneficial
As the world’s nations and businesses become increasingly interconnected, so too does the flow of global migration. In 2018, according to the OECD’s “International Migration Outlook 2019”, around 129m people lived in an OECD country that they were not born in, and more than 5.3m foreign-born persons were permanently settled in OECD countries. This flow of people not only brings benefits…
