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Weaker currencies have not fully restored competitiveness

The depreciation of exchange rates across Latin America since May only goes part of the way to restoring external competitiveness that has been lost over the past five years. As such, we suspect that talk of a renaissance in the region’s manufacturing sector is likely to prove premature.

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