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Economics, Trade & Development

Tell the truth about free trade

Jerry Haar | September 3, 2015

As the tragicomedy of the 2015-2016 election season plays out, falsehoods, hyperbole and mean-spirited attacks among contenders will proliferate. The ...
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Crisis in Venezuela: the revolution will not be demographic

Greg Weeks | August 12, 2015

Venezuelans are having children at higher rates than their counterparts in other countries, despite the economic crisis (aided, perhaps in part, by the ...
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Can the Pacific Alliance and MERCOSUR bridge the hemispheric divide?

Barbara Kotschwar & Nicolas Albertoni | July 30, 2015

In a series of posts—this our first—we will assess whether it is not only desirable but also possible that the two divergent trade blocs of Pacific ...
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Venezuela’s “9-Dash-Line” in the Caribbean

Evan Ellis | July 28, 2015

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has resurrected century-old land claims over two-thirds of neighboring Guyana and its corresponding maritime borders. ...
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Safeguarding financial stability in the TPP

Kevin Gallagher | July 22, 2015

In the final stages of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, the U.S. is still pushing for the elimination of safeguards to regulate capital inflows ...
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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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Experimenting with marijuana policy in Uruguay

Frank Mora and Jose Miguel Cruz | June 25, 2015

In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the possession, cultivation and distribution of marijuana. The bold move unlocked the ...
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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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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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What India is learning from Brazil

Hari Seshasayee | June 8, 2015

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 ...
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