Panama City, Panama. The country will rank as Latin America's richest between 2018 and 2021, according to a Latinvex analysis of new projections from the International Monetary Fund. (Photo: Panama Foreign Ministry)
Monday, October 24, 2016
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GDP Per Capita: Panama Gains, Venezuela Sinks
Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic richer than Brazil.
BY LATINVEX STAFF
Panama is set to replace Chile as Latin America’s wealthiest country in 2018 while Venezuela will gradually become poorer and poorer the next three years,according to a Latinvex analysis of the latest projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Meanwhile, both Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are now richer than Brazil.
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Keywords: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
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