Costa Rica experienced rapid growth in consumer credit over the past decade, followed by a contraction in recent years. Household credit grew from 30% to 37% of GDP from 2011 to 2021, in line with overall...
COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the...
Despite their importance, data on the structure of bank credit by maturity are scarce. For Latin America and the Caribbean, data are particularly difficult to obtain, as few banks report loan maturity...