'Non-conventional banks' help drive global development

Recent trends in infrastructure finance show a sustained increase in the number and percentage of...

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Bolivian economic boom will aid Morales re-election

The economy expanded by just under 7% in 2013, faster than any other country in South America...

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Earlier this year, the independent oil and gas company Tethys Petroleum announced in a press...

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The outlook for growth and trade remains weak in much of the region this year, although the...

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Rising real wages and increased direct social payments for certain disadvantaged categories have...

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The 20th anniversary of the uprising led by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in...

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Tajikistan lies on a key route for opiates -- primarily heroin. The US Department of State...

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Protests against the introduction of mandatory pensions contributions spread from Yerevan to...

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President Barack Obama last night delivered the annual State of the Union address to Congress....

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Reports of increasing hardship across low-to-middle-income households in many parts of Europe...

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