More: Latin America
New Constitution in Chile: From a protected transition to an agonic transition
A constituent process has been installed in Chile. On October 25, 2020, the date of plebiscite, the alternative "Apruebo" (78%) by a new political...
Digitalization: key to implementing an inclusive and sustainable economic model in Latin America
Latin American manufacturing has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, with significant decreases in industrial production, intra-regional trade and exports compounding...
Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean Poised for Transformational Changes
As agriculture and food systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) try to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, policy makers...
New Latin American Left and its complex trajectories
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Shimone Jaini
The rise and fall of a leftist government in Latin America evoke passion, nostalgia, optimism and rhetorical exuberance...
COVID-19: Slow road to jobs recovery for Latin America and the Caribbean
The labour market in Latin America and the Caribbean faces a slow recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the need for “active macro policies”...
Chile’s plebiscite: Optimism, yet there remains a long road ahead to achieve social reform
In a groundbreaking plebiscite held on 25 October, Chileans went to the polls to vote whether to uphold or replace the Pinochet-era constitution. An...
Belt and Road Hazards, Coming to the Americas
The Chinese train that came and wentAt a nationally-televised press conference in Panama City in March 2019, a China-funded team of Chinese and Panamanian...
Third world needs ideological shift
As nations across the world have been pooling their efforts to contain the COVID-19 spread, the looming economic crisis has caught the attention of...
ILO: 34 million jobs lost by the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean
At least 34 million jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean have been lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report...
Technological Revolution Accelerated by Coronavirus Crisis in Latin America
Latin America and the Caribbean is in the midst of a "Fourth Industrial Revolution" of technological innovation which requires enhancing the productivity of the...