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June 16, 2015

Americas
IMF High-Level Conference on Latin America

Two weeks ago, I joined Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University, Santiago Levy, vice president for sectors and knowledge at the Inter-American Dev…

IMF High-Level Conference on Latin America - LAM

July 17, 2019

Space
The Moon Landing Anniversary Confronts America With a Fateful Choice

Fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, U.S. policymakers face the choice of whether to put humanity on a trajectory of peaceful cooperation or dangerous militarization in space. 

 Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed U.S. flag on the lunar surface.

May 12, 2017

Chile
Making Chile Great Again

In my piece published this week on Foreignaffairs.com, I reflect on the end to Chile’s exceptionalism and why, after three decades of democratic growth, protests now envelop the country. I argue that…

The words on the Chilean flag reads, "No more profit in the pension system"

October 27, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa
Recovery of Nigeria’s Oil Production Under Threat

According to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (the state-owned oil company) Nigeria has the capacity to produce 2.5 million barrels of oil per day (bpd). At the beginning of the year, produ…

oil-militants

October 21, 2011

Economics
Reads of the Week: Analyzing Humala’s Victory in Peru

Source: Corporación Latinobarómetro, Informe Anual 2010 (Santiago de Chile, December 2010) Steven Levitsky’s recent article in the Journal of Democracy explains why Humala won the Peruvian elections…

Reads of the Week: Analyzing Humala’s Victory in Peru