Cautious Capital: Chinese Development Finance in LAC, 2018
China provided relatively little state finance to Latin America in 2018, but China remains a key source of credit for some countries in LAC.
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Is Congress Likely to Approve the USMCA This Year?
What is the outlook and most-likely timeline for advancing USMCA in the 116th Congress?
¿Aprobará el Congreso el USMCA este año?
¿Cuál es el camino más probable hacia la aprobación del USMCA?
Are Social Protests Likely to Break Out Again in Nicaragua?
Wiill a loan from Taiwan and a tax reform help revitalize Nicaragua’s economy?
How Foresight Could Strengthen Governance in Latin America
The Dialogue’s long-term global trends program aims to increase Latin America’s exposure to the growing use of foresight and strategic thinking, in order to improve decision-making today. In cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank, the Dialogue’s initiative provides governments, banks and corporations, universities, think tanks, and other institutions in Latin…
Unfulfilled Promises: Latin America Today
The volume takes a broad view of recent social, political, and economic developments in Latin America. It contains six essays, focused on salient and cross-cutting themes, that try to construct a thread or narrative about the highly diverse region, highlighting its main idiosyncrasies and analyzing where it might be headed in coming years.
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The International Standoff Over Venezuela
Energy Program Director Lisa Viscidi went on CGTN to discuss the latest developments in the increasingly international debate over how to peacefully resolve the crisis in embattled Venezuela.
¿Ejercerán un nuevo poder los sindicatos de México bajo AMLO?
¿Cuáles son las razones detrás de las huelgas de los trabajadores, y habrá más conflictos laborales en los próximos meses?
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Unfulfilled Promises: Latin America Today
On March 5, the Inter-American Dialogue presented its new book titled Unfulfilled Promises: Latin America Today. Ambassador Shannon and president Chinchilla praised the book for constructing a narrative about the highly diverse region, highlighting its main idiosyncrasies and analyzing where it might be headed in coming years.
¿Puede Sudamérica capitalizar sus reservas de litio?
¿Qué tan bien están los países sudamericanos involucrando a inversionistas internacionales en sus estrategias de desarrollo de litio?
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The Outlook for Renewable Energy under the AMLO Administration
AMLO’s skepticism of private investment, the cancellation of generation and transmission auctions, and the return to state-led electricity development through bolstering of the CFE threaten to squander Mexico’s renewable potential and drag its clean development efforts backwards.
Economic Growth and Family Remittances to Central America in 2018
Central American economies continue to struggle with achieving higher rates of economic growth, of above 4%. The sluggish growth continues to limit the ability of these countries to achieve economic development and prevent emigration in the long term. Of particular relevance is the fact that these economies are highly dependent on a small number of economic activities, and remittances are a central, if not the most important, source of income.
What Forces Are Shaping Mexico’s Economic Outlook?
How much are political variables and uncertainty under a new president affecting Mexico’s economy?
Member in the News: Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo speaks with David Dollar on the importance of globalization for developing countries, the erosion of multilateralism, and NAFTA.
Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui Explains the Argentine Energy Market’s Competitive Edge
Argentina’s economic crisis and the fiscal belt-tightening it demands have led to gradual cuts to wholesale electricity and natural gas subsidies for consumers and a liberalization of energy prices over the course of Mauricio Macri’s administration. This has helped make Argentina more attractive as a destination for energy investment despite its economic tumult, said Argentine Secretary of Energy Gustavo Lopetegui at an event organized by the Inter-American Dialogue on March 14.