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Haiti: Not Back, Not Better
Photo by: Gonmi | Flickr | Creative Commons License The third anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti has passed with no sign of either serious reconstruction or progress toward improving...
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The TecnoLatinas: A Start-Up Revolution
Foro de Ahorro de Energía Eléctrica, México | Photo credit: Alejandro Castro | Foter.com | CC BY-NC-SA Latin America is experiencing a full-fledged start-up movement amid rapid growth of an innovation...
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Revitalization of the OAS: More than an act of Congress
By Carlos Portales* U.S. Congressional passage in late September of the “Organization of American States Revitalization and Reform Act of 2013” could either help revitalize the troubled body or...
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Resources and the New Developmentalism
By Paul A. Haslam* María del Carmen Ortiz / Flickr / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Resource nationalism is driving the most significant shift in...
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The Amazon Basin: Rainforests, Oil, Politics, and the U.N. Climate Negotiations
By Todd A. Eisenstadt and Karleen Jones West Caroline Bennett / Rainforest Action Network / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 Research that we have undertaken with National Science Foundation support indicates...
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Inter-American Educational Exchange: A Drop in the Bucket
By Aaron T. Bell Photo Credit: Public Domain The Obama administration’s program for strengthening inter-American ties through cooperative education – “100,000 Strong in the Americas” – is now several...
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OAS: New Leadership, Old Challenges
By Aaron Bell and Fulton Armstrong José Miguel Insulza and Luis Almagro Lemes Photo Credit: OEA – OAS / Flickr / Creative Commons Uruguayan diplomat Luis Almagro, elected secretary general of the...
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Remittances and Sustainable Community Development in Latin America
By Aaron T. Bell and Eric Hershberg Photo Credit: Futureatlas.com / Flickr / Creative Commons Remittances to Latin America hit a record high in 2014 at $65.3 billion, according to the Multilateral...
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Tax Reform or Governance Revolution?
By Andrew Wainer* Photo Credit: Reuniones Anuales GBM / Flickr / Creative Commons Taxation to fund development is becoming central to U.S. foreign assistance policy, but it would be a mistake for USAID...
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The Critical Role of Universities in Latin America’s Future
By Rodrigo Arocena* University students in Monterrey, Mexico. Photo Credit: ·júbilo·haku· / Flickr / Creative Commons As the latest commodity boom winds down, universities in Latin America can play a...
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The Caribbean After the Hurricanes: What Path for Recovery?
By Daniel P. Erikson* Residents and volunteers begin clearing debris from Hurricane Irma on St. Maarten. / NLRC / Flickr / Creative Commons This fall’s historically fierce hurricane season reminds us...
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Argentina: From Gradualism to Shock Therapy
By Arturo C. Porzecanski* Argentine President Mauricio Macri. / Wikimedia / Creative Commons The austerity measures that President Mauricio Macri announced yesterday to deal with the sharp depreciation...
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Latin America: Research Can Drive Inclusion
By Judith Sutz and Rodrigo Arocena* Researchers from Uruguay’s Universidad de la República worked with partners from the World Health Organization on a project to prevent dengue fever in Salto,...
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Latin America: The Need to Face the Dire Impact of Climate Change
By Fernanda de Salles Cavedon-Capdeville and Erika Pires Ramos* A farmer works a field in Nicaragua, one of the Central American countries experiencing increasing drought over the last two decades/...
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Increasing the Benefits of Trade Agreements
By Antoni Estevadeordal and Joaquim Tres* Source: IDB (Full-sized images at bottom of page) Latin American and Caribbean countries were major players in global trade liberalization in the 1990s but...
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How Sustainable are Latin America’s Advances on Poverty and Inequality?
By Eric Hershberg “Projeto Contrastes.” Photo Credit: Gabriela Sakamoto / Flickr / Creative Commons The significant decline in poverty rates and income inequality in Latin America over the past two...
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Can Latin America Escape the Middle-Income Trap?
By Rick Doner and Ben Ross Schneider* Photo Credit: Inter-American Development Bank / CLALS / Edited Most literature on the “middle-income trap,” widely understood as a core obstacle to sustained...
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Laudato Si: Support for the Indigenous of the Amazon Benefits Us All
By Birgit Weiler* Members of the Awajún community mobilize in Peru. / Andina Archivo / Creative Commons Issuing his Laudato Si encyclical in 2015, Pope Francis put himself on the side of Latin...
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Mexico: Gambling That Austerity Will Be Enough
By Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid* Mexico City’s Paseo de La Reforma / Flickr / Creative Commons While continuing to emphasize his goal of reversing neoliberalism in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López...
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U.S.-Central America: Suspending Aid Won’t Help
By Joseph Wiltberger* Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, and El Salvador President Salvador Sánchez Cerén during a Northern...
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