Moody’s Investors Service says that during 2011, Venezuela´s domestic currency, its foreign currency government bond ratings, and unstable outlook reflect very weak political and economic institutions marked by an absence of checks and balances on executive authority, as well as a highly pro-cyclical fiscal policy (more income, more spending) evidenced by a rapid increase in [...]
“There’s no doubt that with the growth of China, we’ve seen a re-commoditization of Latin America,” said Colombia’s Mining Minister Mauricio Cárdenas, an economist and former Director of the Latin America program at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. In terms of economic development, Latin America did not take any advantage of the rising prices [...]
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How should we communicate the results of our analysis to decision-makers? How to visualize key information for decision makers? The talk of Joe Parry argued that visualisations and infographics play a very important role, not only for analytical processes of data analysts, but also for explaining the analytical results to decision-makers at the highest of [...]
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On the occasion of the EISIC (September 12-14,2011) held in Athens, we interviewed the Program Chair of the event Dr. Nasrullah Memon, professor at the University of Southern Denmark and member of the Steering Committee of the European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference EISIC on Counterterrorism and Criminology. The event was organized jointly with The [...]
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The Latin America Security Market Report provides in-depth analysis of the electronic and physical security markets in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela. This comprehensive, one-of-a-kind report examines the demand for security products in each of these high-growth markets as well as each nation’s economy, demographics, infrastructure and legal and tax environment. Findings and [...]
Global Security Services LLC and its digital news publication The Americas Post are now associated members of the Security Industry Association SIA of the United States. Our Publisher Mr. Victor Bjorgan met with Directors and members of the Staff of the Security Industry Association, sharing goals and principles. Among the officers of SIA, our Publisher [...]
With government budgets across Europe set to shrink significantly in the coming years, the parent company of Airbus predicted that the group’s military business would become increasingly focused on markets in Asia, Latin America and the Persian Gulf and it hinted that the outsourcing of European aerospace jobs to those regions was all but inevitable. [...]
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Newark, U.S.- On this particular day at NJIT (New Jersey Science and Technology University), the focus of one of the top technological minds in the country is on cork. It is a single cork, from Portugal, where 320 million pounds of bottle stoppers are produced every year. The billion-dollar cork industry is in trouble from [...]
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Latin America and the Caribbean’s faster-than-forecast recovery from the global financial crisis requires “careful” macroeconomic measures to avoid the emergence of a bubble, the IMF International Monetary Fund said. Nicolas Eyzaguirre director of the IMF’s Western Hemisphere department, said there are “incipient,” though not “clear,” signs of a bubble forming in some countries. Speaking to [...]
ITS economies may have improved recently, but much of Latin America has performed poorly over the past two generations. The gap in income per head between the region and developed countries has widened since 1960, while many east Asian countries that were poorer have leapfrogged ahead. The root cause has been Latin America’s slow—or even [...]
