Uruguay – the plucky country  by Tim Harcourt*  Reporting from Montevideo, Uruguay Uruguay is the classic small player who `punches above it weight’. It only has 3.3 million people and is dwarfed by its larger neighbors Brazil and Argentina. But economically it historically was a wealthy country. According to Uruguay´s Deputy Economy Minister, Luis Porto in […]

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The Department of Youth: Can Colombia rebuild its social capital? By Tim Harcourt* Reporting from Bogota, Colombia The Australian state of South Australia recently went through a brand exercise to help sell the state and its capital city Adelaide to the world in terms of trade, investment, education and tourism. There’s no doubt the Adelaide […]

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  The Invisible Hand of God: Returning to Argentina By Tim Harcourt* Reporting from Buenos Aires, Argentina In order to measure the standard of living across international borders, The Economist magazine invented the ’Big Mac Index’ to see what its cost to buy a ‘Big Mac’ hamburger in McDonald restaurants in each country in the […]

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By Tim Harcourt* Reporting from Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico One thing I didn’t expect to hear on my visit to Mexico is a lot about Brazil. Mexico sees Brazil, as the other large economy in Latin America as a bit of a rival fighting for its place in the sun. This has intensified in […]

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