Systems overload: Drug laws and prisons in Latin America
In response to concerns regarding the impact of drug legislation on human rights and civil liberties and Latin America’s prison crisis, the Transnational Institute (TNI) and the Washington Office on...
View ArticleInnovaLatino: fostering innovation in Latin America
Innovation is imperative for firms to respond successfully to new opportunities and threats, and for countries to enhance their development and social well-being. In Latin America and the Caribbean,...
View ArticleThe Latin road to Arab democracy
The scenes that plagued Latin America through the 1980s bear a striking resemblance to those enveloping the Arab World since Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in Tunisia nearly 30 years later. In...
View ArticleThe Pacific Alliance, yet another bloc in Latin America
The Presidents of Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico signed an agreement establishing a regional group called as “Pacific Alliance” in their summit meeting on 6 May at the Paranal observatory in the...
View ArticleIndia-Peru: A new Pacific pivot
A distance of 17,789 kilometres separates Kolkata in India from Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city, and few in either place know of the existence of the other. Yet, commonalities could make them...
View ArticleIndia-Peru: A new Pacific pivot
A distance of 17,789 kilometres separates Kolkata in India from Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city, and few in either place know of the existence of the other. Yet, commonalities could make them...
View ArticleFrom profligacy to pragmatism
Budget deliberations in the world’s largest democracy are a contentious affair. With an increasing fiscal deficit, stubbornly high inflation, and growth at its slowest since 2008, there is broad...
View ArticleIndia-Peru: New Pacific Pivot
Since the late 1990s, both India and Peru have turned their focus to each others’ regions. New commercial exchanges have filled some gaps in the bilateral, but strategic elements – climate change,...
View ArticleLatin America’s global middle class
The exercise makes the important assumption that the mean value of expenditures (or income) in the household data surveys, is equal to the mean household consumption (or income) in the national...
View ArticleLatin America Update, September 2013
Brazil enacts tough anti-bribery law Brazil’s new anti-bribery law covers both bribery of foreign officials by Brazilian companies and bribery of local officials by any company, domestic or foreign....
View ArticleT20 in Lima: a Latin insight
In 1999, a group of Finance Ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies who had been interacting occasionally, was formalized. Following the beginning of the great recession in 2007 the heads of...
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The year of the close vote: a 50:50 world
(Image|PDF) 2016 was the year of the close vote. The year when it became harder to pretend that all is well with “democracy” just because elections take place regularly. The extremely close votes in...
View ArticleIndia-Peru: New Pacific Pivot
Since the late 1990s, both India and Peru have turned their focus to each others’ regions. New commercial exchanges have filled some gaps in the bilateral, but strategic elements – climate change,...
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