In the early 2000s, the Inter-American Development Bank conducted a series of analyses evaluating the role of key actors in the public policymaking process in eight Latin American countries — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Venezuela.
This working paper reviews the degree to which these eight country-level analyses still accurately portray the actors and their present-day roles in the policymaking process.
A working paper that reveals some of the possible new directions in U.S. NGLs and their future use in world markets. By Al Troner, president of Asia Pacific Energy Consulting.
Venezuela is a textbook example of a resource-dependent country. Nevertheless, Venezuela currently combines an economy that is stagnant, despite high oil prices, with an increasingly authoritarian government.
Pedro L. Rodríguez, José R. Morales, Francisco J. MonaldiSeptember 30, 2012
Special drawing rights (SDRs) should become a more relevant instrument of international monetary cooperation. This requires transforming them into a pure reserve asset and the International Monetary Fund into a fully SDR-funded institution.