What Prospects for Greater Japan-Central America and the Caribbean Cooperation?
Central America and the Caribbean are receiving more attention from Japan, whether at the policy level or among Japan’s private sector.
Analysis
Editor’s Picks: Top Content from the Latin America Advisor in 2022
Sharing a selection of issues that the Latin America Advisor’s team felt covered especially important developments this year in Western Hemisphere affairs.
Haiti Policy: Stumbling Toward 2023
Diagnosis of the crisis has been easy—but what key actors in Haiti and its international partners can agree on what to do about has remained muddled.
India’s Approach to Engagement with the Latin American Region
Margaret Myers and Steven Holmes discuss developing trends in the India-LAC dynamic, including India’s appetite for crafting a regional foreign policy for Latin America and potential increased commercial competition with China in the region.
Family Remittances 2022 in Numbers
The Migration, Remittances, and Development Program presented a report addressing the continued increase of annual remittance trends associated to large migration patterns in 2022.
On India External Affairs Minister Jaishankar’s Visit to LAC: Q&A with Hari Seshasayee
Insights from India-Latin America relations expert Hari Seshasayee on External Minister Jaishankar’s trip to Guyana, Colombia, Panama, and the Dominican Republic.
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Impactos climáticos y resiliencia en la República Dominicana
La lucha contra el cambio climático en la República Dominicana fue el tema principal de la Séptima Edición de la Cátedra Magistral Ambiental, organizada el 6 de junio por la Universidad Central del Este, la Fundación Propagas, y el Diálogo Interamericano.
Panelists Discuss the Oil Peak, the IRA and CHIPS, and Decarbonization Strategies
The Seventh Annual Latin America Energy Conference convened experts to explore how tools like energy diplomacy, strategic investments, regulation, technology, and information could square these countries’ urgent need to decarbonize with their continued extraction of fossil fuel resources.
Latin America’s Election Super-Cycle Will Turn on One Key Factor
In Latin America’s 2024 electoral super-cycle, voters seem likely to reward leaders who address their most fundamental needs—in some cases regardless of whether they value democracy, clean government or the rule of law.
What Will Abinader Do in His Second Term in the DR?
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ views on the election in the Dominican Republic.
Is the Dominican Republic’s Pivot to China Paying Off?
The Dominican Republic’s president, Danilo Medina, in late March met with Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua in Santo Domingo, where they agreed on new economic cooperation accords and followed up on agreements that the two countries made last year. How much have ties with China paid off for the Dominican Republic?
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Entrevista a Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Canciller de la Republica Dominicana
El canciller de la Republica Dominicana, Ing. Miguel Vargas Maldonado, charla con Nicole Wasson, reportera del Latin America Advisor, sobre las relaciones entre la República Dominicana y Estados Unidos, su visita a Washington, la crisis política y económica en Venezuela, y las relaciones de su país con Haití.
On the Cusp of Change: Migrants’ use of the internet for remittance transfers
This study presents the findings of a migrant survey conducted in November 2016 about remittances, new technologies, and financial access among Latin American migrants in the United States.
Migrants, Remittances, and New Technologies
Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed US$70 billion in 2016, representing a critical source of income for the region. Two new Dialogue studies shed light on remittances, emerging technologies in methods of transfers, and opportunities for financial inclusion. These studies were presented and discussed on May 17th at an event moderated by Peter Hakim, President Emeritus of the Dialogue, and featuring speakers Manuel Orozco, the Director of the Dialogue’s Migration, Remittances, and Development Program, and Daniel Ayala, the Executive Vice President and Head of Global Remittances Services for Wells Fargo.
Cross Border Remittances: Technology in the Origin and Innovation on the Payout
Enabling tools that motivate remittance recipients to access and use a variety of financial services needed to increase assets is key to wealth generation.