Latin America

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CGD NOTES
The Venezuelan Migrant Crisis: Forging a Model for Regional Response
Cindy Huang
and
Kate Gough
August 06, 2018
An economic, political, and humanitarian crisis has driven more than one million Venezuelans across the border into Colombia in the past year. Countries hosting Venezuelans have done so with relative welcome, keeping their borders open and offering some services and protection to migrants. But addit...
CGD NOTES
Trump’s Protectionist Threat to Latin America
Laura Alfaro et al.
July 10, 2018
The economic impacts of Donald Trump’s trade dispute with China have so far been limited, but the countries of Latin America are nonetheless paying an early price. For a region where many economies are already constrained by weakened fiscal positions, the additional uncertainty caused by risin...
Blog Post
Child Migration from Central America—Just the Facts
Michael Clemens
and
Kate Gough
June 20, 2018
As the debate on family separation and US immigration policy continues, Michael Clemens and Kate Gough pose a key question: why are so many children and families migrating?
Blog Post
Good Macro Fundamentals Are Not Enough to Ensure Paraguay’s Resilience to External Shocks
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
March 19, 2018
Often overshadowed by the regional powerhouses that border it, Paraguay’s recent sovereign bond issuance of $530 million was five times oversubscribed, revealing that the landlocked country of 7.5 million people warrants more attention.
WORKING PAPERS
Paraguay: Is Good Macro Policy Enough to Ensure Adequate Resilience to Adverse External Shocks? How Does It Compare to Other Emerging Markets? - Working Paper 477
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
March 15, 2018
This paper assesses the resilience of Paraguay’s economic and financial stability to external shocks and reaches two main conclusions.
Blog Post
Results-Based Funding in Health: Progress in Poorest Communities in Mesoamerica
Amanda Glassman
and
Jessie Lu
March 14, 2018
Early this month, CGD co-hosted a conference with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), highlighting progress, challenges, and lessons learned from the first phase of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI), a seven-year-old results-based funding (RBF) partnership between don...
WORKING PAPERS
Guyana’s REDD+ Agreement with Norway: Perceptions of and Impacts on Indigenous Communities - Working Paper 476
Tim Laing
February 21, 2018
This report examines the impact of the REDD+ agreement between Guyana and Norway on indigenous communities in the country. It aims to understand the concerns, hopes, and fears of indigenous communities at the start of the agreement, and the effects, if any, that communities have faced from REDD+.