The Georgetown Americas Institute (GAI) was pleased to host a series of conversations with experts on various themes related to the Western Hemisphere, including economics and politics, equity, security issues, entrepreneurship, international investment, and more.
Paraguay’s Future in a Turbulent Continent
Featuring Santiago Peña, president-elect of Paraguay
Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023: What to Expect?
Featuring Alejandro Werner, GAI director; Michael Shifter, Georgetown University adjunct professor; Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
World Economic Outlook
Featuring: Nathan Sheets, global chief economist at CitiGroup
Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows, the Case of the Americas
Featuring Arie Kacowicz, Aaron and Cecile Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor and Israel Institute Fellow, Georgetown University
Democracies Need Robust Evidence: The Mexican Evaluation System
Featuring Gonzalo Hernandez Licona, director, Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network
Should the IMF Be Involved in Climate Change?
Featuring Kristina Kostial, deputy director at International Monetary Fund; Uma Ramakrishnan, deputy director at International Monetary Fund
Colombian Truth Commission from the Perspective of its Director
Featuring Father Francisco de Roux, chair of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition, visiting fellow at the Georgetown Americas Institute
A Conversation with Guido Sandleris, Former President of the Central Bank of Argentina
Featuring Guido Sandleris, Argentine economist and former president of the Central Bank of Argentina
Targeting the Messenger: A Conversation with Colombian Investigative Journalist Ricardo Calderon
Featuring Ricardo Calderon, investigative journalist with Caracol Television
The Georgetown Americas Institute welcomed Ricardo Calderon to talk about his work as an investigative journalist in Colombia. In a wide-ranging conversation with GAI Managing Director Denisse…
Once one of the richest nations in Latin America, Argentina has experienced a long process of economic decline as the country has endured decades of economic crisis, 22 International Monetary Fund…
In 2016 the Colombian government signed a historic peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerillas, ending half a century of conflict. As part of the agreement, Colombia…
The climate crisis threatens to undo the last 50 years of progress in development, global health, and poverty reduction, as well as further widen existing inequalities between and within populations…
Despite the relatively strong performance of economic indicators in Latin America in the first decades of the twenty-first century, many policymakers and government leaders were caught by surprise as…
In their book The Unintended Consequences of Peace: Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows (2021), Arie Kacowicz and his co-authors argue that international peace creates an environment that…
