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Should I stay or should I go? Latin America’s familiar story

Pedro Hércules Fonseca do Rosário | July 1, 2015

Beyond the economics of the 30 million Latin Americans living abroad, out-migraton from the region has also created a looming a political problem. ...
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South American exports to China

June 24, 2015

Using ECLAC data, we constructed a graph tracing the past 20 years of exports from South America to China as a percentage of their total exports. In this ...
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Latin America’s voting record in the UN Human Rights Council

June 18, 2015

Using the data provided by the Human Rights Watch Votes Count website, we took a look at how Latin American and a few other countries on the United ...
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Everybody loves infrastructure

Juan Nagel | June 15, 2015

Latin America invests about 2% of GDP on infrastructure. Between 1992 and 2011 China invested an average of 8.5% of GDP in infrastructure per year. Given ...
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The new and not-so-new foreign policies in the Americas

Christopher Sabatini | June 9, 2015

When we started this website, the idea was to begin a broad discussion of Latin America's emerging foreign policy and its implications for inter-American ...
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Financial inclusion and education levels across the region

June 9, 2015

Predictably, the rates of financial inclusion are significantly higher across the region for those with a secondary education. But there is one country ...
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Time to talk about India and Latin America

Evan Ellis | June 8, 2015

While much of the media and policy attention has focused on China, Russia and Iran's involvement in the region—often with handwringing or finger ...
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