South and Latin America, and Canada 
Country Information.
Click on the blue button for a summary of information at the site
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Latin American and Caribbean country resource center, from the University of Texas.
Management Accounting Information Center

An Internet Site For Researching Management, Accounting, and Business  Information
(home)
Websites linked to from this page provide country information for countries in South and Latin America, plus Canada.
A portal for information on Brazil.
Brazilian economic, population, city, state, and other information.
         A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
Useful Information On A City To Be Visited



Find city historic, weather, and visitor information using this Yahoo Pipes search product.  The search product will also deliver recent news headlines related to the city and photographs from Flickr containing the city’s name in the photograph title.  (The search product was created by Markus Aaltonen.)

The only requirement to perform the search is to enter the city name.

Click the List tab for links to historic, weather, visitor, and recent headline news about the city.  Click the Image tab for photographs from Flickr.  Click the Map tab for map information and satellite image.   Some cities on some continents will not show maps due to the map application limitations.

Click
here to go to this Yahoo Pipes search product.

Right clicking should lead to opening the product in a new window.
             A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
         
A Country’s Airport Locations with a
                         Location Search


See on a map the location of airports in a country using this Yahoo Pipes search product.   Click on any one of the airports and see detailed information for the airport's location.  (This search product was created by blueskyliner05 and modified by Richard Torian.)

Click on the list tab for a list of airports.  Click the name to see information about the location.

Click
here to go to this Yahoo Pipes search product.

Right clicking should lead to opening the product in a new window.
Latin America economic outlook.
The graph to the right was created by using Google’s graph tools.

The line graph shows the imports of goods and services by Mexico from 2000 to 2010.  The increase from 2000 to 2010 is 130 %.

Import growth rates might be useful for targeting countries where import growth is high.   Mexico’s 130 % growth in recent years compares to:  Indonesia – 249 %; South Africa – 219 %; Russia – 209 %; Israel – 49 %; and Belgium – 46 %.

The graph’s data was obtained from a Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s website.   Data at this website can be obtained by clicking
here.
Imports of Good and Services by Mexico 2000 to 2010 (billions of Mexican pesos)