Recent policy actions by the central bank have reduced the buffer Sri Lanka had against the next default, with the latest ...

A growing wave of legal action around the energy transition is raising concerns about its implementation – and revealing ...

Article citations More>> Sonora, R. (2019). Income Inequality, Poverty and the Rule of Law: Latin America vs the Rest of the World (Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) Paper No. 91512). has been ...

Heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty are expected to drive global growth down this year to its slowest pace since 2008 outside of outright global recessions, according to the World Bank’s ...

Generating more revenue is likely crucial to transform Mexico’s security situation. But the country’s tax revenue as a share of GDP is among the lowest in Latin America, and Sheinbaum has for now ...

As in North America, Europe, and parts of the Asia-Pacific region, disaffiliation drove much of the religious change that has occurred across Latin America and the Caribbean since 2010. In many Latin ...

In Latin America, Brazil is no longer a protagonist. Instead, it is retreating into the background, leaving a vacuum that others are increasingly eager to fill.

The reprioritization of Latin America in the United States’ foreign policy, coupled with the high-level visits by cabinet officials, has placed China on the back foot in the region—at least ...

Yet because inequality is usually lower in richer places, and Latin America’s GDP per person four times that in Africa, its inequality is extraordinary.

Latin America is facing an escalating education crisis as school dropout rates continue to climb, affecting not only the region's poorest countries but also those with historically strong public ...

In May, China hosted the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) Forum in Beijing. Colombia signed onto the Belt and Road Initiative. Public ...

In today’s evolving risk landscape, it is critical for companies, especially those operating in Latin America and other high-risk jurisdictions, to implement preventive compliance measures.