If the region increases renewables to 80% of the electricity matrix and expands integration, countries can save billions of dollars in investments, avoid blackouts and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, argue Lisa Viscidi and Ariel Yépez.
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On January 25, 2018 the Inter-American Dialogue’s Migration, Remittances & Development Program hosted “Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2017,” an annual event presenting remittance flows to the region.
Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean grew over 8% in 2017, according to new research by the Inter-American Dialogue.
Enabling tools that motivate remittance recipients to access and use a variety of financial services needed to increase assets is key to wealth generation.
Hay una tentación populista permanente nacida de injusticias acumuladas, crónicas debilidades institucionales y canonjías nacidas al amparo del poder.
El jueves 30 de marzo, el Diálogo realizó un evento con Raúl Peñaranda, periodista boliviano y analista político, y José Manuel Ormachea, miembro de la Red Nacional de Participación Política Juvenil y fellow en la Universidad de Georgetown, sobre el futuro de Bolivia.
Michael Shifter analiza en CNN la controversia por el debate en la OEA sobre Venezuela.
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El gobierno interino de Bolivia trata de acelerar el proceso de elección en medio de una creciente presión de los seguidores del expresidente en las calles y un posible regreso de Evo Morales a Bolivia. Michael Shifter, presidente del Diálogo Interamericano, habló con Xavier Serbiá de CNN en Español para discutir la inclusión de la izquierda boliviana, el papel de Evo Morales y la importancia de una conciliación.
African descendants and indigenous peoples in Latin America face higher poverty rates and are disproportionately represented among the poor. Per capita income of the white population can be sixty percent higher to twice as high as the per capita income of the African descendant and indigenous populations.
This paper, published uses the 2010/11 Income and Expenditure Survey for South Africa to analyze the progressivity of the main tax and social spending programs and quantify their impact on poverty and inequality.
How is Bolivia’s race shaping up, and do opposition candidates stand a chance against Morales?
What are South American countries already doing to protect the Amazon, and how else can they cooperate?
A proposta de Wilson Witzel, governador do Rio de Janeiro, de pedir o fechamento da fronteira do Brasil com o Paraguai, Bolívia e Colômbia como forma de reduzir a violência dificultando o tráfico de drogas e de armas não é factível, na opinião de Michael Shifter.
On Oct. 20, Bolivian President Evo Morales will go to the polls in search of a fourth term. Victory would extend his time in office to almost two decades, and — depending on how the election goes — could place democracy itself at risk in the Andean country.
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El presidente del Diálogo Interamericano, Michael Shifter, habló con Gustau Alegret del programa Cuestión de Poder de NTN24 sobre el tema de la transformación laboral, con atención especial al nuevo informe del Dialogo Interamericano “El Futuro del Trabajo en América Latina: ¿Cómo impactará la digitalización y qué hacer?” escrito por Sergio Bitar. Shifter y Alegret continuaron su conversación discutiendo las elecciones en Bolivia.
