Ariel Fiszbein, Sarah Stanton, Ana Flórez
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PREAL Blog
The Inter-American Dialogue and Teach For All present a brief analysis of the impact that the pandemic has had in the educational systems of the region, based on information provided educational stakeholders representing the public and private sectors.Read more +
The economic damage wrought by Covid-19 in the Caribbean will have numerous implications for the energy sector. In this Q&A, Jed Bailey, managing director of Energy Narrative, discusses impacts for renewables, resilience, utilities, and more.Read more +
The Latin America Advisor interviewed Gabrielle Trebat, managing director for Brazil & the Southern Cone at McLarty Associates, to talk about the latest political developments in Brazil and scandals surrounding President Jair Bolsonaro.Read more +
The Latin America Advisor sat down with Devry Boughner Vorwerk, CEO of DevryBV Sustainable Strategies, to talk about food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean amid the coronavirus pandemic.Read more +
Latin America and the Caribbean is confronting a severe recession with uncertain prospects. Although the recovery will primarily depend on external factors, three key components will determine whether the region is capable of sustaining its path of economic prosperity and social cohesion: sound economic management, access to external finance and delivery of quality public goods and services to all its citizens. Covid-19 introduces the sense of urgency as well as an opportunity to continue making real progress.Read more +
The Latin America Advisor sat down with Anabel González, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics and former trade minister of Costa Rica, to talk about medical supply chains amid the coronavirus pandemic in relation to Latin American and the Caribbean.Read more +
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a crisis in the education systems of Latin America and the Caribbean like never before. During the Covid-19 pandemic, what solutions can mitigate the negative impacts of school closures?Read more +
Feliciano Reyna, Temir Porras, Verónica Zubillaga
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Voces
Perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives—inside Venezuela and across its borders—now depend on whether our leaders can put aside their battle for control, engage politically in good faith, and momentarily put the wellbeing of citizens first by taking the urgent steps needed to combat the virus crisis and its consequences.Read more +
Cuba is experiencing the cumulative effect of the structural crisis of its socio-political and economic model – which was not transformed and is not sustainable for the future – plus the impact of new external factors. The combination of all this will radically increase the crisis that the country is living in. Read more +
The actions, or lack thereof, of the presidents of the region’s two biggest countries, Mexico and Brazil, have drawn particular scrutiny, casting a fresh spotlight on populism in Latin America and its particular vulnerabilities in the face of a global pandemic.Read more +
The perfect storm of the plummeting oil price and the Covid-19 pandemic could have dire consequences for oil-dependent Latin American economies, lead to a reduction in upstream investment, and damage the prospects for renewable energy projects.Read more +
The Latin America Advisor sat down with Mauricio Cárdenas, the former finance minister of Colombia, to talk about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on Latin American and Caribbean economies. What do the best-case and worst-case economic scenarios look like? Which countries face the most economic pain? And who will…Read more +
The latest Latin America Advisor video with Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, assistant director at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), on the Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.Read more +
The Latin America Advisor interviewed Shelly Shetty, co-head of Americas sovereign ratings at Fitch Ratings, about the coronavirus outbreak and global trade, and their impact on Latin America and Caribbean economies.Read more +
Ante la visita del Presidente ecuatoriano Lenín Moreno a Washington, el Latin America Advisor entrevistó a Diego Caicedo, el ministro de producción, comercio exterior, inversiones y pesca de Ecuador.Read more +
In Chile, the second government of Sebastian Piñera in 2018 was viewed as the end of a cycle – the return of the Latin American right, together with Macri in Argentina, Duque in Colombia, and PPK in Peru. In Chile, the main threat in the presidential elections was seen as…Read more +
What are the long lasting effects of bringing technology to schools in rural areas of Latin America? Gabriel Sanchez Zinny gives us a look at how technology is changing school administrations. Read more +
Héctor Castro Vizcarra, Nate Graham
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A private long-term power auction and changes to Clean Energy Certificate rules are major developments in a challenging new context for Mexico's renewable energy sector. Nate Graham, assistant for the Energy Program, asked non-resident senior fellow Héctor Castro Vizcarra about their implications.Read more +