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Gender-neutral family leave: Smart economics for Latin America

Barbara Kotschwar | May 20, 2015

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 ...
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How do Latin American universities stack up globally?

May 20, 2015

With only one university in the top 100, what does this say about the ability of Latin America to produce an educated workforce that can complete in ...
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Latin America: Seizing the opportunity for drug policy reform

Vanda Felbab-Brown & Harold Trinkunas | May 20, 2015

Latin America knows well the costs of failed drug policies, and it has an opportunity to show the way on improving global drug policy, even if UNGASS 2016 ...
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Determining and gaining U.S. influence in Latin America

Frank O. Mora | May 19, 2015

Rather than focusing old time notions of levels of economic and military aid or large inspiring policy declarations, analysts and policymakers should ...
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China’s investment in infrastructure, great. But at what cost?

Christopher Sabatini | May 14, 2015

Given Latin America's woefully inadequate infrastructure, China's plans to invest in roads and rails is a welcome opportunity. The question becomes, ...
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Who’s down with TPP? Everyone should be

Jerry Haar | May 11, 2015

The TransPacific Partnership that is currently being negotiated will be neither an apocalypse nor a panacea. But what it will do is provide critical ...
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TPP, democracy and development

Christopher Sabatini | May 10, 2015

The negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership should force a serious discussion of the goals of U.S. bilateral development assistance in the region. ...
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