Title: Latin America in 2015: Growth for Some, Trouble for Others
Headings: Latin America in 2015: Manufacturing Aces, Commodity Bases and Basket Cases
Finance
Latin America in 2015: Manufacturing Aces, Commodity Bases and Basket Cases
Economic Diversity
A ‘Spring Cleaning’ for Brazil
Knowledge@Wharton High School
The Importance of Mexican Reform
Venezuela’s Slippery Slope

Content: They know that they could have a much better life if the regime went away, but that isn’t going to happen. The regime has its own supporters. They may be a minority, but it has supporters.” A ‘Spring Cleaning’ for Brazil
Given its vast area, huge population and immense natural resources, Brazil is the key problem in South America, Guillen says. The country’s challenges aren’t limited to a weakening demand for commodity exports. Knowledge@Wharton High School
“ Brazil has two bottlenecks in its economy,” he notes. “ One is [its] stifling regulations, and the other is the lack of training and education of the work force Twitter .” A third challenge, he adds, is “Brazil’s political system itself, which has a lot of corruption and is becoming dysfunctional. The last seven or eight years, Brazil was doing very well, and the problem with the commodity-fueled boom was that it helped the government postpone reforms of regulations, the tax system and so forth.” Now that commodity prices have dropped, it will be more challenging for Brazil to tackle the “old structural problems inherited from the past.”