Cuba’s First Party Conference
Julia E. Sweig says that during her visit to Cuba, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff should sense the frustrating process of Cuba's transformation.
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Julia E. Sweig says that during her visit to Cuba, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff should sense the frustrating process of Cuba's transformation.
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Julia E. Sweig discusses Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's upcoming visit to Cuba.
This session was a meeting of the Emerging Powers in Global Health Governance roundtable series.
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CFR's Julia E. Sweig, discusses the rise of Brazil with students, as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call series.
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Grupo Salinas chairman and founder Ricardo Salinas discusses the challenges of doing business in Latin America with CFR Board Member Donna Hrinak.
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Greece's new prime minister is seeking crucial parliamentary support for an EU bailout package that will require restructuring its sovereign debt. Economist William Cline says Uruguay's 2003 default offers a constructive model.
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This report tracks the foreign investment portfolios of the BRIC governments— Brazil, Russia, India, and China—by looking at reserves holdings and holdings of U.S. assets.
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This meeting was presented by the International Institutions and Global Governance Program and the Women and Foreign Policy Program.
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This meeting was presented by the International Institutions and Global Governance Program and the Women and Foreign Policy Program.
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Juan Forero and Michael Birnbaum suggest Greece turn to the financial histories of Uruguay and Argentina for a lesson on how to deal with its current debt crisis.
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The U.S. ratification of the stalled Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama indicates that "there is a possibility, despite the very great partisan divisions in Congress, of bipartisan cooperation on economic issues," says CFR's Edward Alden. However, Alden emphasizes that "it is important not to overstate the potential job creation benefits" of the agreements.
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Sebastián Piñera, president of the Republic of Chile, discusses Chile's strong fiscal and trade policies, as well as efforts to increase domestic per capita income.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera discusses his country's economic growth strategy, trade policy, banking system, and recent student protests.
Joshua Kurlantzick says Libya is hardly the only country that has reason to rejoice at the fall of Muammar al-Qaddafi.
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Yanzhong Huang discusses the impact of chronic, noncommunicable disease on development in the BRICS nations.
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Joel D. Hirst says the strength of Venezuela's opposition is increasing through greater unity ahead of the battle to remove Chavez in 2012.
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Jagdish Bhagwati shares anecdotes of the sometimes-painful outcomes that protectionist policies can produce.
Listen to CFR Senior Fellow and Task Force Director Julia E. Sweig, and Task Force member Donna J. Hrinak, former ambassador to Brazil, discuss the findings and recommendations of the CFR Task Force report, Global Brazil and U.S.-Brazil Relations.
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CFR Senior Fellow and Task Force Director Julia E. Sweig and Task Force member Donna J. Hrinak, former ambassador to Brazil, discuss the findings and recommendations of the CFR Task Force report, Global Brazil and U.S.-Brazil Relations.
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