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
Guns and gangs and the sad role U.S. lax gun laws play
There are multiple causes for the escalating crime and violence that is sweeping the region and making Latin America the region with the highest murder rates in the world. Narcotics trafficking, weak states, misguided anti-narcotics policies are all partly to blame. But given the numbers of U.S.-purchased weapons turning up in crime scenes in Central America, the U.S.’s lax gun control laws are another.
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June 2, 2015
Sobre la próxima elección de miembros de la CIDH y de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
El próximo 15 y 16 de junio se llevará a cabo en Washington D.C. la 45ª Asamblea General (AG) de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA). En esta ocasión elegirán 4 nuevos miembros de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) y 4 nuevos jueces de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Esas elecciones también definirán el futuro y fuerza moral de la organización hemisférica.
Katya Salazar
May 31, 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
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
Undocumented LGBT immigrants in the U.S.
Undocumented LGBT immigrants are doubly discriminated against in the United States, often facing job insecurity, low wages, and lack of access to healthcare. Immigration procedures and processes for asylum also remain unfair and unclear.
Kirsten Cowal
May 19, 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
Should the U.S. be worried about Chinese arms sales in the region?
China has increased the sale of sophisticated weapons systems to Latin America and the Caribbean, mostly–though not exclusively–to countries opposed to the United States. With it has come other forms of military cooperation between China and its new customers. Should the U.S. be worried? If so, what can it do about it?
Evan Ellis
May 11, 2015