Recent estimates from the International Labor Organization indicate a drop in the unemployment rate in Latin America and the Caribbean when comparing figures with the same period in 2021.
According to the ILO, the previous year, the unemployment rate stood at 8.7% for the first quarter of the year.…
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Mexico recovered its economic level
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, assured that the country has recovered the economic levels prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This was maintained during a rendering of accounts of what has been carried out by his Executive…
The US created more than half a million jobs in July
During the month of July, the United States economy generated a total of 528,000 new non-agricultural jobs, double what was expected by the market consensus, while the unemployment rate fell one tenth, to 3.5 %, reported the Bureau of Labor…
Brazil finally exceeds one million tourists
Brazil exceeded the mark of one million foreign visitors in the first five months of 2022, according to data published by the International Traffic System (STI) of the country's Federal Police.
This figure demonstrates the reactivation of…
UNWTO inaugurates Digital Futures Program for SMEs
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) announced the inauguration of the Digital Futures Program for small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMEs), with the purpose of improving and facilitating the adoption of new technologies and thus…
GDP decreases and inflation increases in Germany
The German Economy and Climate Minister, Robert Habeck, admitted that the war between Russia and Ukraine is impacting the German economy and pointed out that the new growth projections for the end of 2022 highlight that the GDP will grow…
Energy prices impact European inflation
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB) stressed that an increase in interest rates will not impact the reduction in energy prices, which are responsible for 50 % of the increase in inflation on the continent.
The…
Facebook and Instagram open an account on the social network TikTok
With the idea of reaching the youngest consumer, the Meta company opened an account on the TikTok platform for its social networks Facebook and Instagram.
Currently, TikTok is the most popular social network among Generation Z, since…
World mobile telephony congress will receive 60 thousand people
The World Mobile Telephony Congress will take place in the city of Barcelona from February 28 to March 3, with the participation of 60,000 visitors. John Hoffman, CEO of the association of telecommunications (GSMA) noted: "We expect…
The US created 467 thousand new job vacancies in January
The US Department of Labor published a report reporting that the country opened some 467,000 new job vacancies during the month of January, greatly increasing the projections made by economists, who estimated some 150,000 jobs.
In a survey…
OPEC + will increase its production by 400,000 barrels per day
The ministers of the oil sector of the 23 countries that make up OPEC+ (OPEC and allies) decided to increase their oil production to 400,000 barrels per day during the month of February, despite the uncertainty that the world is…
Unemployment in Latin America will last until 2024
The International Labor Organization (ILO) released its edition of the Labor Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean where it noted that the economic growth evidenced during 2021 in the region did not have enough impact to reduce…