After mediocre growth in 2018 of 0.7 percent. LAC is expected to perform only marginally better in 2019 (growth of 0.9 percent) followed by a much more solid growth of 2.1 percent in 2020. LAC will face both internal and external challenges during 2019. On the domestic front. the recession in...

After a growth recovery, with an expansion of 1.1 percent in 2017, the region has encountered somebumps in the road. The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is expected to grow at a modest rateof 0.6 percent in 2018 and 1.6 percent in 2019. This slowdown in the region's recovery is...