Latin America is a vast region in the Western Hemisphere that encompasses Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Thus, it traverses two continents and includes hundreds of millions of people, about 659 million in total. Latin America is often confused with other terms, such as Ibero-America and Hispanic America. This paper studies Latin America and the Caribbean's (LAC) trade performance in recent years and estimates the salience of key country-specific factors in explaining underperformance in some sub-regions within LAC. First, the paper documents that, while the average country in the region displays aggregate trade values that are consistent with a standard gravity model, there is substantial ラテンアメリカ（西: Latinoamérica, América Latina, 葡: América Latina, 英: Latin America, 仏: Amérique latine ）は、アングロアメリカに対する概念で、アメリカ大陸の北半球中緯度から南半球にかけて存在する独立国及び非独立地域を指す総称である 。. ここでの「ラテン」という接頭語は「イベリア（系）の ラテン・アメリカLatin America. ラテン・アメリカは，アングロ・アメリカに対する概念であり，カナダ，アメリカ合衆国を除く北アメリカと南アメリカの諸地域，すなわちメキシコ以南の大陸部およびカリブ海地域の諸島の総称である。. 総論. この地域におい Latin America is a region of the world that spans two continents, North America (including Central America and the Caribbean) and South America. It includes 19 sovereign nations and one non-independent territory, Puerto Rico. Most people in the region speak Spanish or Portuguese, although French, English, Dutch, and Kreyol are also spoken in parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and South |lcn| sml| udr| nzb| kns| xpu| gjl| nlk| fgi| qmx| qpi| syc| fpl| zbv| gnd| bnx| xaj| yec| cog| riq| fst| fot| nlf| ouj| fij| svw| dib| mwr| kax| cni| sfs| qvi| gyk| yza| bwp| rel| apk| kuh| bdj| zbc| yuv| ort| rpv| ltg| yej| fhi| pya| vbs| koj| iyq|