The loan “will support the regulatory quality and transparency of the business environment” in Ecuador. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the approval of a USD 42 million loan to “improve competitiveness through the strengthening […]
Fernandez to IMF: “let’s discuss the time I need to get the economy back on track, but don’t give me more money.” Argentina’s elected President Alberto Fernández announced that he will not ask the International […]
Banco del Pacifico is the second most profitable bank in Ecuador. The Bank of America Securities Inc. will carry out the assessment process of Banco del Pacifico. With this step, the process of granting this […]
They also question Maria Paula Romo’s statements about the alleged “attempted coup d’etat.” The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) recalled that several of the measures announced by President Lenin Moreno “were already proposed […]
“We have to repeat the mobilizations, although those who believed that they had already affected workers’ rights do not like it.” Frente Popular (Popular Front) leaders announced that they would carry out a new mobilization […]
As permanent incomes, it considers concessions that would no longer exist. The Government proposed an economic reform to the National Assembly as part of the plan that will replace -for a time- the elimination of […]
They express their concern about the state of emergency declared on October 3. The United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee expressed concern about the impact on the population of austerity measures implemented by […]
Adequate employment was 38.5 percent; while underemployment registered represented 19.7 percent of the population. Unemployment in Ecuador reached 4.9 percent in September, growing 0.9 percent since September 2018, the National Institute of Statistics and Census […]
Indigenous and workers organizations will continue with a massive strike Oct. 9. Freight, bus and taxi union leaders of Ecuador announced Friday that they were ending their part in a now two-day national strike. However, […]
Correa stressed that a similar measure has not been taken by a government in Ecuador since 2005, during the administration of Lucio Gutierrez. Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa referred to the complicated situation that the […]
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