What Leaders Are Saying

• Bill Rhodes:
  "It will play a unique role in shaping the political and economic debate for years to come.”
  David Rockefeller:
  "This new journal, I believe, will give that community [in the Americas] a strong voice.”
  Eliot Engel:
  “… A key resource for myself and members of the Subcommittee.”
  Richard Feinberg:
  "We can look to Americas Quarterly to provide fresh, compelling ideas...”
  Albert Fishlow:
  “This is a journal that everyone interested in the Americas will want to follow.”
  Arminio Fraga Neto:
  “Americas Quarterly is a wonderful and timely initiative…”
  Jerry Haar:
  “. A journal that tackles timely and relevant hemisphere issues . with clear reasoning, thoughtful analysis and cogent writing.”
  Richard Lapper:
  "...Americas Quarterly can help the search for solutions.”
  Chappell Lawson:
  "Americas Quarterly will be an incubator of new ideas about Latin American political economy... ”
  Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty:
  “… A great asset in improving inter-American understanding, awareness, and dialogue.”
  Guillermo Perry:
  “…A great instrument to debate diverging views and to attempt to bring them closer….”
  Dani Rodrik:
  "This journal promises to provide a fruitful forum for discussion.”
  Riordan Roett:
  "...a frank, independent forum will offer an opportunity to analyze and predict new policy trends...”
  Susan Segal:
  "Americas Quarterly promises an important impact on policy in the region.”

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Americas Society/Council of the Americas invites you to the Colombia Launch of Americas Quarterly hosting a discussion on economic growth and social mobility on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. For more information, please see our events page or click here

 

Read the Fall 2007 Hard Talk Forum debate between Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Francisco Rodriguez of Wesleyan University on the effects of Venezuela’s economic policies. Their exchange has continued in other fora, with Francisco Rodriguez recently defending his conclusions in a working paper.

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Traveling soon? AQ is available in the VIP lounges of Mexicana Airlines (Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Cancún, Mexicali, and San Antonio, Texas) and Aeropuertos Argentina-operated facilities (Buenos Aires, Bariloche and Montevideo, Uruguay).

One-Year Anniversary Issue Launched on April 24.  READ MORE

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Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth

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Counting the Poor —By Sanjay G. Reddy The first step in designing effective programs to reduce poverty in the region is to figure out the real numbers. Unfortunately, that's harder than it looks.		Pocketbook Poverty Alleviation —By Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto Targeted monetary transfer programs such as Brazil's Bolsa Família represent bold new alternatives in the field of poverty alleviation. Do they work as well as their advocates claim?
High Inequality —By Guillermo Perry Recent research suggests that exclusion represents a severe drag on the region's economic growth and stability. Tackling high inequality and low social mobility is fundamental to getting economies on a sure footing.		Dispatches from the Field: São Paulo —By Dennis Barbosa 100,000 Bolivians, many of them undocumented immigrants, live and work in São Paulo, re-creating a Bolivian community in the midst of Brazil's industrial capital.
Free Trade and Poverty —By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs A fierce debate rages over whether globalization reduces or increases poverty and inequality. The evidence doesn't always provide comfortable answers for either side.     Spring 2008 Table of Contents		Special Report-Cuba: Until When?Cuba No Libre —By Gary Marx and Cecilia Vaisman Cuba's new President is anything but, and the much expected change in power will bring only minor modifications for Cuba's long-suffering citizens. Authors' Response to Recent Changes in Cuba. Frustration Mounts —By Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat Cuban workers and students have started to speak out against the failures of the revolution and the lack of changes

 

 

Hard Talk Forum: Ethanol Does ethanol make economic and environmental sense? . YES: Ethanol will Reduce our Dependence on Foreign Oil —By Bruce Dale . NO: Ethanol Wastes More Energy than it Produces —By David Pimentel .		Fresh Look Reviews
		Reviews of some of the hemisphere's best new and recent books.
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		Santiago's Children: What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile[By Steve Reifenberg]
		—Reviewed by Pablo Bachelet
		Read Pablo Bachelet's Miami Herald Op-Ed Article.                                       .
		Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants [By Jorge G. Castañeda]
		—Reviewed by Alexandra Délano
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Policy Update The status of policy developments in the Americas. . IPOs: The boom in emerging equity markets —By Lisa M. Schineller . CAFTA-DR Pact: Opening up new frontiers —By Gary Hufbauer and Barbara Kotschwar . Same Sex: Rights to get married —By Luiz Mello, Anna Paula Uziel and Miriam Grossi .		Los límites morales del gasto público: Desigualdad, bienestar e ingresos no laborales [By Dante Avaro]
		—Reviewed by Ignacio Labaqui
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