RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Vanda Felbab-Brown, February 02, 2012, The Brookings Institution
Vanda Felbab-Brown discusses key challenges in reducing crime in slums in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. Felbab-Brown argues that successful policies must go beyond infrastructure projects and address a wide variety of economic deficiencies. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ted Piccone and Emily Alinikoff, January 09, 2012, The Brookings Institution
Ted Piccone and Emily Alinikoff offer an in-depth assessment of international democracy and human rights policy approaches of five rising global powers: Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Vanda Felbab-Brown, December 05, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Vanda Felbab-Brown outlines key law enforcement and socioeconomic policy lessons from urban slums controlled by non-state actors in Latin American countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Jamaica. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
December 02, 2011, Foreign Policy
Contrary to what many believe, Jack Goldstone argues that over the next 50 years, the economic and political story will not be of the United States and China competing for dominance. Instead, Goldstone points to the quiet rise of Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil and India.
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ted Piccone, October 2011, Journal of Democracy
Ted Piccone assesses where the world's six most influential rising democracies—Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, South Korea, and Turkey—stand on supporting democracy and human rights outside their borders. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Carlos Pereira and Greg Michener, July 18, 2011, The Brookings Institution
On June 12, Hillary Clinton and the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Relations, Antonio Patriota, formally introduced the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multinational, multi-stakeholder initiative to improve openness, transparency, accountability and good governance around the world. While Brazil is set to co-chair the initiative alongside the United States, many question whether the country is fit to serve in its new role. Carlos Pereira and Greg Michener examine the strong criticism Brazil has received, and the challenges for Brazil in gaining credibility. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Carlos Pereira and Marcus André Melo, June 28, 2011, The Brookings Institution
In Brazil, many recognize the need to reform the country's electoral regime, which would likely signal a shift toward the implementation of proportional representation or mixed-number systems. However, Carlos Pereira and Marcus André Melo explain why new attempts to reform Brazil's electoral system will be met with opposition.
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Carlos Pereira and Carlos Aramayo, June 28, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Brazil's Worker's Party condemned former Chief of Staff Antonio Palocci following a corruption scandal that led to his resignation. Carlos Pereira and Carlos Aramayo argue that this time, Palocci's second resignation from public office, the lack of support for Palocci is directly linked to the dissatisfaction felt by coalition members regarding President Rousseff's disproportionate Cabinet. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Carlos Pereira and Carlos Aramayo, June 14, 2011, The Brookings Institution
On June 6, Ollanta Humala narrowly won Peru's presidential election in a runoff with opponent Keiko Fujimori. For many, the stern support of Brazil’s Worker's Party came as a surprise and affirmed that Brazil is now exerting its newly-acquired clout throughout Latin America. Carlos Pereira and Carlos Aramayo explain Brazil's influence in the Peruvian presidential race and what this could mean for upcoming elections in Latin America. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eswar Prasad, May 25, 2011, Financial Times
As the battle for the International Monetary Fund's top job continues, it is clear that emerging markets may have a hard time staking their claim on the position of managing director. With Europe determined to retain its prerogative to appoint Dominique Strauss-Kahn's successor, Eswar Prasad says it's time for the emerging markets to make a game plan and ensure that the selection process is open and transparent. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eduardo Levy-Yeyati and Mario Blejer, May 01, 2011, El País
¿Será cierto que existen diferencias fundamentales entre el comportamiento de la economía de Brazil, país de moda, y aquella de Argentina, país marginado en las páginas de analistas y comentaristas internacionales? Eduardo Levy-Yeyati analiza la historia económica reciente de ambas naciones y pone en duda la noción de que la percepción tan distinta de estos dos países es un reflejo fiel de diferencias reales. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Washington, DC
On April 14 and 15, the Managing Global Order project at Brookings and the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy hosted a conference on the foreign policies of emerging-market democracies and their efforts to advance human rights and democracy. On April 15, Samantha Power, special advisor to the president and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights at the National Security Council, provided commentary on the administration’s efforts to work with the emerging democracies. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mauricio Cárdenas, Eduardo Levy-Yeyati, Camila Henao and Karim Foda, April 2011, The Brookings Institution
This issue of the Brookings Latin America Economic Perspectives: Shifting Gears in an Age of Heightened Expectations comes at a time of unprecedented economic opportunities for the region. Amidst positive balance of payments conditions and extraordinary confidence levels, economic overheating is a concern. Capital inflows and domestic credit expansion are starting to look as too much of a good thing. A new strain of the Dutch Disease is among the key challenges the region will have to overcome. Prudential macroeconomic policies, geared towards smoothing out the cyclical pattern of flows and exchange rates, are at the forefront of the debate. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda, April 07, 2011, Financial Times
In their April 2011 TIGER update, Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda find that advanced and emerging economies are in a far better state than they were a year ago, as evidenced by resurgent job growth and rising business and consumer confidence. However, a variety of unpleasant shocks–revolution, war, natural disasters, rising food prices and debt crises–all signal uncertainty ahead for the global economy. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Carlos Pereira and Marcus Andre Melo, April 06, 2011, The Brookings Institution
With every new administration, electoral reform seems to top Brazil's political agenda. Currently, Congress is debating a controversial proposal to replace the current open-list proportional representation system for a closed-list system in which voters would vote by party label, not by individual candidates. Carlos Pereira and Marcus Andre Melo explain the risks of adopting this new system and what Brazil can learn from South Africa’s mistakes. Read More