How Fast Is Latin America Moving on Digitalization?
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ views on digitalization in the region.
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Myers: “Chinese economic engagement with LAC has changed over time, consistent with China’s shifting interests and shifting economic realities”
Margaret Myers, director of the Asia & Latin America Program, joined the China Global South Project podcast to discuss key findings from the new Inter-American Dialogue report.
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Taraciuk Broner: “It is going to be hard for these elections to take place on a completely fair playing field”
Tamara Taraciuk Broner, director of the Rule of Law Program at the Dialogue, spoke to Viewpoints Radio about this year’s presidential elections in Mexico and what’s at stake for democracy within the country and the region.
“New Infrastructure”: Emerging Trends in Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
China’s investment in Latin America is increasingly focused on a handful of innovation-related sectors.
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.
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The Pulse of Democracy in the Americas: Results of the 2023 AmericasBarometer
In Latin America, trust in democracy takes two paths: Good Governance, meeting citizens’ expectations under the rule of law, and Populism, where a leader perceived as a savior, centralizes power to deliver on promises. This finding was among the key insights revealed during the highly anticipated launch of the 2023 AmericasBarometer.
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Panelists Discuss Japan’s Evolving Approach to Engagement with Latin America
“Building Economic Resilience—Japan’s Evolving Approach to Engagement with Latin America” was the ninth in a series of Inter-American Dialogue-JALAC events considering Japan’s evolving approach to engagement with the Latin American region.
What Is Holding Back the Region’s Economic Growth?
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ views on economic growth in Latin America.
What Is the State of Chinese Investment in Latin America?
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ views on Chinese investment in Latin America.
Myers: “China is encountering all sorts of debt-related challenges globally, this includes in Latin America and the Caribbean … but also when you look at the numbers this is not specifically a one region phenomenon.”
On April 16, Margaret Myers, director of the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue spoke with Ada Derana English about new trends in Chinese overseas economic engagement.
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Myers: “Hemos visto la aceleración de inversiones en sectores…vistos en China como muy importantes para su propio crecimiento económico…”
El 14 de abril, Margaret Myers, directora del Programa de Asia y América Latina del Diálogo Interamericano, habló con Voz de America sobre tendencias en la relación entre China y América Latina.
International Migration from Latin America & the Caribbean: In Numbers
The Migration, Remittances, and Development Program published a presentation that delves deeply into how the scale, composition, and nature of migration in the Americas has changed drastically since 2015.
Orozco: “We’re not Addressing the Brain Drain by Investing in Human Capital or Increasing Skills of the Local Labor Force”
Manuel Orozco spoke with Open Democracy’s Borders and Belonging Podcast about the socio-economic harm done to the countries in the Global South that suffer brain drains as well as the effect of global mobility in an interconnected world.
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.
China y América Latina, ‘terra ignota’
Latinoamérica seguirá siendo un proveedor esencial de materias primas para China, un mercado destacado para sus tecnologías y una región clave para su política exterior.