CIAO DATE: 04/2011

Americas Quarterly

A publication of:

Council of the Americas

Volume: 5, Issue: 1

Winter 2011

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• Cover (PDF)

• Features

  • Wake Up, Washington! (PDF)

    Eric Farnsworth

    While Washington sleeps, the U.S. is losing the battle for Latin America's markets.

  • Breaking the Cycle

    Shannon O'Neil, Dóra Beszterczey

    The best crime-fighting strategy? Improve economic opportunities for all.

  • Ask the Experts: Market Access and Free Trade

    Ron Kirk, Samuel Dyer, Peter Van Loan, Robert Lawrence

    How can we move forward with trade liberalization?

  • Strength in Numbers

    Carlos Ignacio Rojas, Alejandro Vera

    The merger of the Colombian, Chilean and Peruvian stock exchanges is a milestone for hemisphere finance-and a sign of renewed economic confidence.

  • Taking Youth to Market (PDF)

    Matthew Aho, Richard André

    How to meet the challenge of youth unemployment and under-employment in the hemisphere.

  • From Tradition to Trade

    Steven Samford

    Helping small artisanal producers compete on the global market is essential to reducing inequality.

  • Latin America's Middle Income Trap

    Eva Paus

    Economic success has left many countries unable to compete with either low-wage exporters or high-tech producers.

  • Brazil: What's Next?

    Albert Fishlow

    The post-Lula, or Dilma, era promises both change and continuity.

  • Maturing Microfinance

    Carlos Labarthe, Carlos Danel

    The microfinance industry has helped millions of poor entrepreneurs gain access to capital for the first time. Where does it go from here?

  • How to Protect and Defend Free Trade

    Jose Guilherme Reis, Thomas Farole

    If recession-wary governments succumb to protectionism, a decade of growth could be reversed. Here's how to keep the momentum going.

  • Middle Classes, Education and Mobility

    Florencia Torche, Luis Felipe Lópex-Calva

    Entering, and staying in, Latin America's growing middle class isn't easy.

  • As the World Trades

    Ryan Berger

    Canada looks beyond NAFTA toward a giant free-trade deal with the European Union.

• AQ INTERVIEW

  • U.S. Senator Harry Reid on the DREAM Act and the Colombia and Panama FTAs.

• HARD TALK

  • Does Obama have a foreign policy for Latin America?

• DISPATCHES FROM THE FIELD: MADRID

  • Cuba's released political prisoners in Spain

    Tábata Peregrín

• POLICY UPDATES

  • Environment: Climate Finance in Latin America

    Bryce Rudyk

  • Energy: Central America's Power Future

    Jorge Mercado

  • Mining: The U.S. Gets Tough on Safety

    Kray Luxbacher

• PANORAMA

  • La Sonoteca: Lima Rescues Experimental Tunes for Future Generations.

  • Carnival in Trinidad

  • Jair Oliveira's Sambazz

  • A View to Our Land

  • 10 Things to Do: Puerto Williams

  • Instituto Culinario de México

  • From the Think Tanks

• FRESH LOOK REVIEWS

  • Latin America's Cold War by Hal Brands

    Tom Farer

  • Operación Primicia: El ataque de Montoneros que provocó el golpe de 1976 by Ceferino Reato

    Janie Hulse

  • A construção da sociedade do trabalho no Brasil: uma investigação sobre a persistência secular das desigualdades by Adalberto Moreira Cardoso

    Paulo Sotero