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
¿Descontento con la economía o con el gobierno en Chile?
Si bien la gente aparece molesta con los escándalos de corrupción, estos escándalos no son peores que otros problemas de tráfico de influencias y conflictos de interés que surgieron en años recientes. La diferencia ahora está en que la economía ya no crece.
Patricio Navia
May 21, 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
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
How to engineer a Latin American miracle
The story of dashed hopes and sudden halts is a painful yet familiar one for all of us. As we lick our wounds and take stock of yet another lost opportunity, we ask ourselves yet again: can the continent ever escape the boom-bust cycles that have left our economies trapped in middle income status?
Juan Nagel
May 13, 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
The media’s bipolar disorder with Latin America
Too often, U.S. and international coverage of the region falls into manic poles when covering the political and economic fortunes of the region. In reality, the developments in Latin America—and U.S. responses to them—are both more granular and more nuanced than the way the region is portrayed, even in respectable media.
Christopher Sabatini
April 26, 2015