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  1. Crime Is Punishing Latin America’s Economies

    Crime Is Punishing Latin America’s Economies

    Dec 17, 2024 Nathalie Alvarado & Ana María Ibáñez explain how the problem acts as a tax on development – one that the region can no longer afford to pay.

  2. What a Trump Victory Would Mean for Latin America

    What a Trump Victory Would Mean for Latin America

    Sep 5, 2024 Jorge Heine thinks the former US president's threats of mass deportations and sweeping tariffs must be taken seriously.

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  4. High Labor Turnover Fuels Inequality in Latin America

    High Labor Turnover Fuels Inequality in Latin America

    Aug 1, 2024 Renata Narita urges policymakers to encourage employee retention by facilitating investments in human capital.

  5. Overcoming Political Short-Termism in Latin America

    Overcoming Political Short-Termism in Latin America

    Jul 18, 2024 Eric Parrado envisions independent institutions empowered to devise and implement long-term development-related policies.

  6. How Guyana Became Latin America’s Leading Development Lab

    How Guyana Became Latin America’s Leading Development Lab

    Apr 11, 2024 Iván Duque Márquez highlights the current government’s unique approach to managing its renewable and non-renewable resources.

  7. Rethinking Inequality in Latin America

    Rethinking Inequality in Latin America

    Feb 20, 2024 Ana María Ibáñez highlights new research showing that the problem is neither as predictable nor as static as many believe.

  8. How Wide Are Latin America’s Health Inequalities?

    How Wide Are Latin America’s Health Inequalities?

    Mar 14, 2024 Dolores de la Mata outlines how the poorest and least educated are bearing the brunt of the region’s disease burden.

  9. From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Apr 18, 2024 Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.

  10. Latin America’s Splendid Isolation

    Latin America’s Splendid Isolation

    Nov 1, 2023 Andrés Velasco explains why nowadays, as in the 1930s and 1940s, being a distant region can be a boon to economic growth.

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    The US Economy’s Trust Deficit

    Michael Spence considers the causes and consequences of Americans’ declining faith in media and government.
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    Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer

    Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork argue that the country should give its windfall gains from gas exports to those on the front lines.
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    Navigating the Risks of Digital Public Infrastructure

    Carl Gahnberg calls for guardrails and policy guidelines to prevent governments from abusing the policy paradigm.
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    Services Are the New Road to Development

    Indermit Gill & Aaditya Mattoo explain why developing countries need a new paradigm to replace the old manufacturing-led model.
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    Russia Just Lost Its Great-Power Status

    Galip Dalay explains why the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has diminished the Kremlin’s global influence.
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    Twelve Questions for Philanthropists

    Dambisa Moyo offers practical advice to those who want to contribute effectively to charitable causes.
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2024

    PS editors

    At the end of a year of domestic and international upheaval, Project Syndicate commentators share their favorite books from the past 12 months. Covering a wide array of genres and disciplines, this year’s picks provide fresh perspectives on the defining challenges of our time and how to confront them.

    ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that resonated with them the most over the past year.
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    The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions

    Ilana Seid calls for creative mechanisms for financing investment in our planet’s largest carbon sink.
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    The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It

    Yanis Varoufakis argues that Western power is alive and well, but the lofty values that once sustained it have been abandoned.

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