Development

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A new lost decade for Latin America?

Ximena Roncal Vattuone

ECLAC warns of low growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Without mobilizing resources, the region risks another lost decade.

Development

Organized crime and human development: the urgency of a structural response in Latin America

Lucía Dammert | Santiago Rodríguez-Solórzano

The rise of organized crime in Latin America threatens not only security, but the very foundations of human development and democracy in the region.

Development

Every person with talent is an act of collective care

Bernardo Cañizares

The closure of Ecuador’s Ministry of Culture reveals its weak role, political misuse, and failure to act as a pillar of collective care for talent.

Development

Latin America caught in the commodities trap

José Luis Sampietro Saquicela

Latin America depends on raw materials while losing talent abroad. Education, innovation, and R&D investment are key to breaking the resource curse.

Costa Rica

Learning from Central America’s manufacturing maverick: four lessons from Costa Rica

Emma Woods

In three decades, Costa Rica went from exporting raw materials to becoming a global leader in medical manufacturing, offering valuable lessons for Latin America.

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New opportunities or precarious prosperity? The two faces of the gig economy in Latin America

Mariana Viollaz | Camila Olate

The gig economy in Latin America offers flexibility and income opportunities, but also deepens inequality and labor precariousness.

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A new lost decade for Latin America?

Organized crime and human development: the urgency of a structural response in Latin America

Every person with talent is an act of collective care

Latin America caught in the commodities trap

Learning from Central America’s manufacturing maverick: four lessons from Costa Rica

New opportunities or precarious prosperity? The two faces of the gig economy in Latin America