Latin America has of some of the world’s largest countries, in terms of land area, but the continent has no large global economy, and only two medium-sized economies: Brazil and Mexico. The
On May 31, 2009, seven South American Finance ministers agreed on the basis for establishing the Bank of the South and on September 28, seven South American presidents finally signed the founding
Brazil’s Lula da Silva and China’s Hu Jintao met in Londonat the G-20 summit. Photo: Xinhua/Lan Hongguang. In early April, the executives of 19 countries and the European Union traveled to London
When the G7 finance ministers returned home following the Oct. 13 weekend meeting of the International Monetary and Finance Committee, the world’s dailies all led with the same story: substantial gains on
By Tony Phillips On Sept. 9, separatist groups in the resource-rich eastern “half-moon”1 states of Bolivia launched violent attacks on the offices of the government of President Evo Morales. Rebel state governors,2
Perspectives on the ICSID and Argentina’s Debt “Some multinational companies take over our natural resources, privatize basic services, fail to pay taxes and then, when they have no arguments in their defense,
"We, the human race, have substantially altered the earth’s atmosphere. In 2005, the concentration of carbon dioxide exceeded the natural range that has existed over 650,000 years. Eleven of the warmest years
A meeting of international diplomats and financiers in Port-au-Prince this summer ended up with a commitment of $750 million in foreign aid to Haiti over the coming year. This generosity will build