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Civil society is confronting difficult times… and silence

By Christopher Sabatini / April 8, 2016

Latin America has gone global, but not just in its trade and diplomacy. A growing number of governments are copying from autocrats around the world how to ...
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China goes global with development banks

By Kevin Gallagher / April 7, 2016

In just over a decade, China has become a global leader in development finance. China has established a number of bilateral and multilateral funds across ...
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Beyond the Zapata scandal: outsourcing Bolivia’s national development to China

By Evan Ellis / February 12, 2016

Personal contacts and questionable contracts between the government and the Chinese company CAMC Engineering reveal both the problems with public ...
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Everybody loves infrastructure

By 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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Doing business in Cuba–don’t forget opportunity costs

By Jerry Haar / May 29, 2015

The new, the exotic, the previously forbidden fruit may appear to be the most tantalizing, but objective criteria should form the realist metric on which ...
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TPP, democracy and development

By 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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