José Antonio Ocampo, a professor at Columbia University and Chair of the UN Economic and Social Council’s Committee for Development Policy, was Minister of Finance of Colombia and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. He is the co-author (with Luis Bértola) of The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence.
Though Latin America – and South America, in particular – has been in crisis for years, foreign capital has continued to flow into the region. Are the days of sudden stops and abrupt reversals in exte… read more
Last year, populism was routed in Argentina, and it was barely holding on in Venezuela. But, with Donald Trump's inauguration as US president coming at a delicate moment for most Latin American econom… read more
The World Bank Group recently released Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All, the latest version of its flagship report, which encourages countries to reduce regulatory burdens on the private… read more
The peace agreement between Colombia’s government and the FARC guerrilla group is an historic achievement that will put an end to more than a half-century of kidnappings, forced displacement, indiscri… read more
In the run-up to September’s G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, there has been much talk about strengthening global macroeconomic cooperation and reforming the international monetary system. This is far f… read more
After nearly a decade of recession, Puerto Rico may finally get the debt restructuring it needs to put its economy back on a sustainable path. But there is little hope of restoring growth if the US go… read more
The recent annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Lima, Peru, were dominated by talk of the weakness of several emerging and developing economies. But the discussion focused very little on o… read more
At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa last month, efforts to strengthen international tax cooperation came to an abrupt halt. But, despite developed countri… read more
When it comes to funding development, taxes are perhaps the most critical piece of the puzzle. But the system for taxing multinational companies’ global profits is broken – and it is exacerbating ineq… read more
