Enabling early pension withdrawals proved to be a suboptimal policy in Chile. Yet for other Latin American countries, early pension withdrawals should not be immediately discounted as a viable policy option.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put informal settlements, and the policy failures that they represent, back in the spotlight. Immediate strategies to combat the virus in slums have been deployed throughout Latin America, which includes five of the countries—Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina—that have suffered the most COVID-19-related deaths per capita. However, the strong regional impact from COVID-19 calls for differentiated governance and policy response.
The Colombian oil industry had many ups and downs in 2020, but Wall Street has been lifting 2021 oil price predictions, and positive oil price forecasts are expected to help bolster Colombia’s production.
Los problemas estructurales en materia económica y política pronostican un futuro incierto para el Ecuador en la carrera por redibujar las cadenas de suministros globales.
Through a joint effort, countries can increase the safe and efficient dissemination of medicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, but it will require a new level of medical regulatory coordination.
Prior governments have failed to make Suriname’s economic system more efficient and publicly accountable. The new administration not only needs to resolve the current financial crisis, but rebuild national and international economic partnerships, regain the public’s trust in key institutions, and fight corruption.
The Varkey Foundation has funded training for more than 46,000 teachers, and directly impacted the education of over 1.6 million students around the world. It is especially active in Argentina, Ghana, and Uganda.
El 24 de enero marca la importancia de la educación como respuesta a los obstáculos que deben enfrentar las comunidades alrededor del mundo y nos recuerda el desafío de garantizar una educación inclusiva, equitativa y de calidad para todos.
The ratification of the EU-MERCOSUR agreement still faces obstacles based on the negligence of Brazilian environmental policy, asymmetric ideologies in MERCOSUR, and the lobby from agrarian states in Europe.
System dynamics involves the representation and analysis of chains of causal relationships between physical, political, social, and commercial interactions that may help to understand how a number of complex forces will affect Latin America during 2021.
