India is looking to adopt Latin America’s famous and popular conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. But are they transferable to a country of 1.2 billion people, in which 363 million of them live below the poverty line, 260 million live in rural areas?
What India is learning from Brazil
By Hari Seshasayee /
World Bank’s financial inclusion numbers for Latin America and the Caribbean
A snapshot of the World Bank’s data on financial inclusion in Latin America.
The left and political pragmatism in Latin America
By Greg Weeks / GregWeeksUNCC /
When analyzing Latin America, it is high time we stopped using the imagery of a “pink tide” and stop depicting the region in “good lefts” or “bad lefts.” Despite the rhetoric we often hear from politicians and pundits alike, with few exceptions we are entering an era of pragmatism and centrism.
How Latin America’s regional integration is reshaping global norms and policies
By Pía Riggirozzi /
Today we have a real opportunity to assess how southern regionalism become political spaces where policies are redefined and the norms of global political economy can be renegotiated.
¿Descontento con la economía o con el gobierno en Chile?
By Patricio Navia / patricionavia /
Si bien la gente aparece molesta con los escándalos de corrupción, estos escándalos no son peores que otros problemas de tráfico de influencias y conflictos de interés que surgieron en años recientes. La diferencia ahora está en que la economía ya no crece.
Gender-neutral family leave: Smart economics for Latin America
By Barbara Kotschwar /
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Given the advances women have already made, a legal change to increase fathers’ roles in the home and thereby free up women to return to their careers offers a powerful means to helping women overcome the barriers to upper level career advancement.
Why Venezuela’s economy is in such a tailspin
Huffington Post interviewed LatinAmericaGoesGlobal editor Chris Sabatini on the economic situation in Venezuela. We read a lot in the press about Venezuela’s unusual currency system, […]
China’s investment in infrastructure, great. But at what cost?
By Christopher Sabatini / chrissabatini /
Given Latin America’s woefully inadequate infrastructure, China’s plans to invest in roads and rails is a welcome opportunity. The question becomes, though, under what conditions for bidding and procurement and the protections for community land rights.
How to engineer a Latin American miracle
By Juan Nagel / juannagel /
The story of dashed hopes and sudden halts is a painful yet familiar one for all of us. As we lick our wounds and take stock of yet another lost opportunity, we ask ourselves yet again: can the continent ever escape the boom-bust cycles that have left our economies trapped in middle income status?
Who’s down with TPP? Everyone should be
By Jerry Haar /
The TransPacific Partnership that is currently being negotiated will be neither an apocalypse nor a panacea. But what it will do is provide critical legal and institutional guarantees that will draw Asian investors to Latin America.
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