PAST EVENT
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Washington, DC
On June 3, the Transparency and Accountability Project convened two policy roundtables focused on ongoing efforts to improve competitiveness and facilitate access to information in Mexico. It was an opportunity for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to discuss these issues and debate possible interventions that could be made at the domestic and international level to help catalyze these reforms. Read More
BOOK
Santiago Levy, June 01, 2008
This book argues that incoherent social programs significantly contribute to Mexico's state of affairs and it suggests reforms to improve the situation. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Washington, DC
The Wolfensohn Center for Development hosted a discussion with Santiago Levy, nonresident senior fellow and former deputy minister of finance of Mexico, about his new book, which recommends that in order to help bring Mexico’s poor out of poverty the country’s social programs should be improved to increase productivity, workers’ wages, and overall economic growth. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael E. O'Hanlon, Diana Villiers Negroponte and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, November 2007, The Brookings Institution
In October and November of 2007, Brookings Scholars Michael O'Hanlon, Diana Negroponte and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz had an e-mail exchange with prominent Latin American scholars with a variety of perspectives to discuss the issues facing Latin America. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Diana Villiers Negroponte, November 06, 2007, The Brookings Institution
Diana Negroponte discusses the key points and implications of the United States' Merida Initiative grant supporting Mexican security programs. She asserts that the United States and Mexico must share the key ingredients with their respective members of Congress to guarantee transparency and sustain public support. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, September 05, 2007, The Brookings Institution
Reviewing President Felipe Calderon's report to Mexico's Congress, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz argues that Calderon's ambitious plans to reform his nation's economy will come to little unless his government can deliver on tax reform. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, January 08, 2007
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Washington, DC
The Wolfensohn Center for Development hosted a discussion with Santiago Levy, former Mexican Deputy Minister of Finance, about his book Progress Against Poverty. Levy analyzed the factors contributing to the success of the program and the challenges in further implementation. Read More
BOOK
Santiago Levy, November 01, 2006
Santiago Levy—the main architect of Progresa-Oportunidades—offers his unique perspective on the development of the program, the reasons for its success, the challenges it faces, and its applicability in other nations. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
to
Friday, February 20, 2004
Mexico City, Mexico
There are an estimated 3.3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Americas, the majority in Colombia. Most IDPs in the Americas are in need of humanitarian aid, protection and support for reintegration. The first regional seminar on internal displacement in the Americas was held in Mexico City on 18-20 February 2004, hosted by the Government of Mexico and co-sponsored by the Brookings-SAIS Project and the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons. Read More
BOOK
Kevin J. Middlebrook, January 01, 2004
The seventeen contributors to this volume assess Mexicos political dynamics at the turn of the century and the many pending challenges in the construction of a more fully democratic political order. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert S. Leiken, Mar-02, Center for Immigration Studies
Article by Robert Leiken, Nonresident Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, with the Center for Immigration Studies, March 2002 Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli and Roberta Cohen, May 2001, Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement
The Americas today account for only some ten percent of the world's internally displaced persons —two to two and one half million of a total of twenty to twenty-five million— yet the continent has experienced some of the worst cases of displacement as well as some of the most successful remedial efforts. Whether in Central America or Peru in the 1980s and early 1990s, or today in Colombia, internal displacement in the Americas has pronounced features that distinguish it from other parts of the world. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert S. Leiken, 15-Feb-01, The Boston Globe
A New Mexican Revolution, February 15, 2001, Robert Leiken, foreign-policy, The Brookings Institution Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Gregory Michaelidis, 28-Jul-00, The Baltimore Sun
Open U.S.-Mexican border, Opinion in The Baltimore Sun, July 28, 2000, by Gregory Michaelidis, foreign-policy, The Brookings Institution Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, February 09, 1999
10:00 AM to
Washington, DC
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