It is probably a good time for an agriculture-based economy like Vietnam to rethink informal cross-border trade and the export of raw agricultural products. In the case of Vietnam, producing more and exporting cheap raw products only for China – although it’s an expanding market – yet tends to be less reliable and sustainable.
The COVID-19 pandemic arrives in Brazil at a time of political and economic crisis, deepened by the fact that the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is one of the few remaining world negationist leaders – frequently minimizing the gravity of the pandemic and urging for the end of social isolation measures so that economic activity may…
In the whole Argentine territory, a quarantine was declared by the recently elected Peronist government in the early stages of contagion itself, on 19 March. Unlike other Latin American countries, there was less hesitation in implementing this measure to control the spread of the virus, even at the cost of other concerns such as economic…