IMF forecast for Latin America is sluggish growth 2014,

imf.org repored…Economic activity in Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to stay in low gear in 2014, according to the IMF’s latest forecast for the region. The recovery in the United States and other advanced economies is expected to bolster export growth, but lower world commodity prices and rising global funding costs are likely to weigh on activity across the region. The IMF’s Regional Economic Outlook for the Western Hemisphere, released on April 24 in Lima, Peru, projects regional growth of 2½ percent in 2014, down from 2¾ percent in 2013. Weak investment and subdued demand for the region’s exports held back activity in 2013, as did increasingly binding supply bottlenecks in a number of economies. For 2015, the IMF projects a modest pickup, to 3 percent. Read Article