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Slide Presentation: Uruguay - Swimming against the regional political current
URUGUAY · Report · 20 Oct 2022

Access the pdf file of the presentation from the GlobalSource Partners webinar "Uruguay: Swimming against the regional political current". Esteban Fernández Medrano discussed the country's outlook as a market economy in an environment of left-leaning governments in Latin America.

Promising activity data while awaiting the social security project release
URUGUAY · Report · 18 Oct 2022

President Lacalle Pou is expected to present today, after its final rounds of deliberation within the ruling coalition, the bill to modify the social security system, by which Uruguay will progressively raise the retirement age from 60 to 65. This project, together with the free trade agreement w...

Solid Q2 GDP data
URUGUAY · Report · 19 Sep 2022

The recently published 2Q22 GDP data came in better than expected. With real growth of 7.71% y/y and a seasonally adjusted rise of 1.1% q/q, it represented the fifth consecutive quarter of growth and an improvement compared to the 0.5% q/q rise seen in 1Q22.

Macro and political introduction
URUGUAY · Report · 06 Sep 2022

With this report, we take pleasure in initiating our coverage of Uruguay, a country that shares many social and cultural customs with its neighbor on the west coast of the Rio de la Plata, while maintaining its unique social identity, political forces, and consequent economic policies. In our int...