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Updates: 6/27/2021

Update to: Companies and workers propose five ways out of unemployment in Ecuador Published: Volume 4, issue 45 With 6.3%, May had the highest unemployment rate of the year May was the worst month of the year in terms of unemployment in Ecuador. This indicator stood at 6.3%, a higher figure than that registered in January […]

Rate Of New Cases Increases, Deaths Fall, Hospitaliztions Increase, But Icu Occupancies Are Falling And Vaccinations Are Increasing

Not surprisingly, as we get farther out from the lifting of national restrictions, some of the numbers we follow have been getting worse. This week we saw an increase in the percent of tests returning positive, an increase in the percentage of new cases, and an increase in the number of hospitalized patients. On a […]

Sometimes you have to listen to the experts

108° in Portland? Really? Hottest day EVER in Portland. Other cities across the US broke heat records last week (while Colorado had snow in the higher elevations). And here in Azuay, we recorded colder temperatures than normal.  What is going on? Oh, wait! It’s that ‘climate change’ thing we used to talk about. You remember, […]

Ecuador signs an agreement to rejoin the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

Last week, the Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States, Ivonne Baki, signed an Agreement to enter the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The ICSID is a space for the resolution of investment conflicts at the international level. Upon signature, Ecuador becomes the 164th state to sign the Convention, but it has yet to be […]

The middle class in Ecuador is reduced and goes to vulnerability and poverty

Published on June 28, 2021

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn A World Bank report estimates that 4.7 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are no longer in the middle class The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic caused 4.7 million people from the middle class to move into vulnerability or poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a […]

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