Economy

With a hydrocarbons-based economy, T&T ranks highly on a number of economic indicators, despite its small size. According to estimates from the IMF, T&T’s per capita income was $21,310 in 2014, the third-highest level in the Americas, after the US and Canada. The World Bank categorises T&T as a high-income nation, while the World Economic Forum classifies it as an innovation-driven...

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Panama’s capital markets are highly internationalised, with the financial stability of a dollarised economy helping attract global firms looking to expand their Latin American footprint. Though the country has already established itself as a regional banking hub, Panama’s non-bank financial sector still has room to grow. While insurance sector assets nearly tripled in the decade to 2013, from...

Panama’s sustained economic growth continued in 2014, with the economy expanding by 6.2%, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The figure represented a slowdown from average annual GDP growth of 7.8% over the six years to the end of 2014 – including double-digit growth in 2011 and 2012 – and was partly due to the impact of a weaker global economy, the completion of major public...

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