One of the very few areas in the public policy arena where both Republicans and Democrats can agree is the need to bring companies and jobs back to the U.S. Initially the mantra of Democrats ...
No region of the world, save Africa, is less prepared to contend with the challenges brought by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) than Latin America and the Caribbean. While Latin America and the Caribbean did not begin ...
“Sluggish,” “lackluster,” “underperforming”. Any one of these terms accurately describes Latin America’s economic performance in 2019. That is not good news. Most discouraging is that 2020 will not be much better. The latest report from ...
Economist E.F. Schumacher’s 1973 opus Small is Beautiful advocates for small, appropriate technologies that are believed to empower people above a “bigger is better” philosophy of economic development. The advantages of bigness are obvious—among them ...
By Jerry Haar, professor of international business at Florida International University and Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. Which of these statements is true? Increased economic growth makes people ...
By Jerry Haar, professor of international business at Florida International University Pundits are claiming the bloom is off the rose with the Macri administration. That could well be. The emerging market sell-off in recent months, the ...
By Jerry Haar The Age of Anxiety is a long, six-part poem composed by W.H. Auden in 1947. The title is also an apt description for what Mexicans are experiencing today, as well as foreign ...
Jerry Haar You’ve seen it on TV—a smoking suitcase in an airport check-in line. A spontaneous fire in a handbag in a supermarket shopping cart. Is the culprit: ISIS? Al-Qaeda? No, lithium. The spontaneous combustion ...
By Jerry Haar, business professor at Florida International University and Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and Camilo Trout Lastra, Chief Strategist at Inversiones Trout Lastra , S.A.S. ...