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Camila Villard Duran

Camila Villard Duran

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Camila Villard Duran is Associate Professor of Law at ESSCA School of Management.

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  1. The EU Must Not Give Up on a Mercosur Trade Deal
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    The EU Must Not Give Up on a Mercosur Trade Deal

    Feb 19, 2024 Camila Villard Duran calls on European policymakers to recalibrate their diplomatic strategy toward the Latin American bloc.

  2. Getting to Monetary Integration in Latin America
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    Getting to Monetary Integration in Latin America

    Feb 1, 2023 Camila Villard Duran explains why the vision of a regional unit of account, advanced by Brazil and Argentina, is achievable.

  3. Bolsonarism After Bolsonaro
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    Bolsonarism After Bolsonaro

    Oct 31, 2022 Camila Villard Duran cautions jubilant Brazilians that the forces that backed the defeated far-right president remain powerful.

  4. Brazil's Besieged Democracy
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    Brazil's Besieged Democracy

    Dec 4, 2021 Camila Villard Duran warns that President Jair Bolsonaro's failures are obscuring his success in restoring the military to power.

  5. Global Money for the Poor
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    Global Money for the Poor

    Aug 13, 2019 Camila Villard Duran hopes new technology will spur the establishment of a cheap, reliable payment system for the less well-off.

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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang

    By banning TikTok, US authorities have sent American users of the app flocking to Chinese platforms with even fewer safeguards on data security or algorithmic manipulation. Though these, too, might be banned, others will replace them, leading America to construct, one prohibition at a time, its own "Great Firewall."

    thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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    Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

    While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.

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    The Climate Policy Pendulum

    Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
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    Could High-Skill Immigration Increase Under Trump?

    Michael R. Strain argues that the recent kerfuffle over foreign workers underscores the president-elect’s pragmatic instincts.
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    What Happened to International Law?

    Eric Posner sees the web of treaties, conventions, and institutions as another victim of the anti-globalization backlash.

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