With Latin America headed for an unprecedented economic contraction, here are three expert predictions on the effects of COVID-19 on regional economies.
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What the experts are saying about COVID-19’s effects on Latin American economies
China’s financial calculus in Latin America: Before and after COVID-19
Margaret Myers |
China's banks were treading more carefully in Latin America and the Caribbean even before COVID-19. The region should expect more of the same.
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Countering China through infrastructure investments
Lisa Viscidi and Sarah Phillips |
The U.S. has introduced several measures aimed at facilitating investment in energy and infrastructure in Latin America. The new approach is a sensible ...
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Challenges to international human rights
Christopher Sabatini |
Not only are democracy and freedom in the world declining, the willingness of liberal democracies to defend the norms and institutions that support them ...
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What the Democratic presidential candidates are saying about Latin America (an ongoing series)
With two democratic presidential candidates remaining, more focus needs to be put on how they look to engage Latin America and the Caribbean.
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The real crisis: A global debt bubble of historic proportions
Benjamin Waddell |
While the coronavirus clearly triggered an economic meltdown, it would be an egregious error to solely attribute the economic decline to the virus itself.
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Eight in ten people in the Western Hemisphere biased against women, UNDP
Findings from the UNDP’s new Gender Social Norms Index suggest the glass ceiling is not made of glass, but of bias and prejudice against women. In the ...
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Freedom in the World: Latin America report card
Freedom House’s Freedom in the World report paints a bleak picture for the world's democracies. Worse, the trend also applied to Latin America and the ...
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The U.S.-China “phase-one” trade deal and Latin America
Emily Heuring, Haoliang Chu & Nicolás Albertoni |
Although the “phase-one” trade deal has reduced global uncertainty to a certain extent, it's hard to say whether the alleviation of the trade war will ...
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