World Bank’s financial inclusion numbers for Latin America and the Caribbean
A snapshot of the World Bank’s data on financial inclusion in Latin America.
Interesting statistics
June 5, 2015
The left and political pragmatism in Latin America
When analyzing Latin America, it is high time we stopped using the imagery of a “pink tide” and stop depicting the region in “good lefts” or “bad lefts.” Despite the rhetoric we often hear from politicians and pundits alike, with few exceptions we are entering an era of pragmatism and centrism.
Greg Weeks
May 27, 2015
How Latin America’s regional integration is reshaping global norms and policies
Today we have a real opportunity to assess how southern regionalism become political spaces where policies are redefined and the norms of global political economy can be renegotiated.
Pía Riggirozzi
May 26, 2015
Gender-neutral family leave: Smart economics for Latin America
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 offers a powerful means to helping women overcome the barriers to upper level career advancement.
Barbara Kotschwar
May 20, 2015
How do Latin American universities stack up globally?
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 today’s global economy?
Interesting statistics
May 20, 2015
Latin America: Seizing the opportunity for drug policy reform
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 disappoints its present expectations.
Vanda Felbab-Brown and Harold Trinkunas
May 20, 2015
Determining and gaining U.S. influence in Latin America
Rather than focusing old time notions of levels of economic and military aid or large inspiring policy declarations, analysts and policymakers should focus their attention where policy and its return (i.e. influence) is most impactful—communication, contact and exchange that improve the daily lives of Latin American and Caribbean citizens.
Frank O. Mora
May 19, 2015
China’s investment in infrastructure, great. But at what cost?
Given Latin America’s woefully inadequate infrastructure, China’s plans to invest in roads and rails is a welcome opportunity. The question becomes, though, under what conditions for bidding and procurement and the protections for community land rights.
Christopher Sabatini
May 14, 2015
Who’s down with TPP? Everyone should be
The TransPacific Partnership that is currently being negotiated will be neither an apocalypse nor a panacea. But what it will do is provide critical legal and institutional guarantees that will draw Asian investors to Latin America.
Jerry Haar
May 11, 2015
TPP, democracy and development
The negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership should force a serious discussion of the goals of U.S. bilateral development assistance in the region. As U.S. policy invests more to promote trade integration and link it to global geo-strategic goals, it’s time to think about how to recast development assistance to help countries participate and compete in these new trade agreements.
Christopher Sabatini
May 10, 2015