With Latin America headed for an unprecedented economic contraction, here are three expert predictions on the effects of COVID-19 on regional economies.
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.
The U.S. has introduced several measures aimed at facilitating investment in energy and infrastructure in Latin America. The new approach is a sensible way to make use of the U.S.’s limited toolkit to match China’s expanded reach in the region.
Not only are democracy and freedom in the world declining, the willingness of liberal democracies to defend the norms and institutions that support them is also fraying. To what extent does that reflect popular opinion?
With two democratic presidential candidates remaining, more focus needs to be put on how they look to engage Latin America and the Caribbean.
While the coronavirus clearly triggered an economic meltdown, it would be an egregious error to solely attribute the economic decline to the virus itself.
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 Western Hemisphere, this bias is prevalent in 80 percent of the population.
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 Caribbean.
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 benefit Latin America over the long term.
Latin America holds the non-enviable position of the world’s most dangerous region for journalists.
