20-10-2016: Latin American Weekly Report

Our Associate Fellow Andrew Thompson looks into a new deal to bring 250 UK-made electric helicopters to São Paulo to create a commercial air-taxi service, with a view to alleviating the city's often enormous traffic jams.

The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the region’s agribusiness sector has shown great resilience. The outlook is positive, but much will depend on how it responds to specific challenges of climate change, shifting global diets, and uncertainties in global trade.