Latin America: Panama Second-Richest

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BY LATINVEX STAFF

Panama has become the second-richest country in Latin America after Chile, while Peru is now richer than Colombia, according to a Latinvex analysis of new data from the International Monetary Fund. 

The analysis used data for gross domestic product based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) per capita GDP in international dollars to measure wealth and excludes Argentina, which has been criticized for having unreliable data on its economy.

Panama’s GDP PPP is now...

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Story keywords: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela

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