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Kevin Casas-Zamora

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Kevin Casas-Zamora, a former Vice President of Costa Rica, is director of the Inter-American Dialogue’s Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program.

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  1. Central America’s Triangle of Despair
    Children in Honduras.

    Central America’s Triangle of Despair

    Nov 10, 2015 Kevin Casas-Zamora makes the case for international assistance to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

  2. Venezuela’s Questionable Election Observers
    Nicolas Maduro Secretaría de Comunicación/Flickr

    Venezuela’s Questionable Election Observers

    Oct 12, 2015 Kevin Casas-Zamora takes the government to task for not allowing credible monitoring of December's general election.

  3. Venezuela’s Republic of Crime
    92f1930346f86fe80ed64a09_dr3847c.jpg Dean Rohrer

    Venezuela’s Republic of Crime

    Feb 15, 2012 Kevin Casas-Zamora

  4. The Mosque and Its Enemies
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    The Mosque and Its Enemies

    Sep 1, 2010 Kevin Casas-Zamora

  5. El Salvador’s Democratic Test
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    El Salvador’s Democratic Test

    Mar 19, 2009 Kevin Casas-Zamora

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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya

    There are four reasons to worry that the latest banking crisis could be systemic. For many years, periodic bouts of quantitative easing have expanded bank balance sheets and stuffed them with more uninsured deposits, making the banks increasingly vulnerable to changes in monetary policy and financial conditions.

     show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
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    Policymakers Keep Solving the Wrong Banking Problem

    Andrés Velasco

    When a bank fails, the first response by policymakers and the public is to blame risk-loving speculators, greedy investors, or regulators asleep at the wheel. But quenching our thirst for moral adjudication is a poor basis for policy, because the truth is both simpler and more troubling.

     argues that recent market turmoil has revealed that the sector’s main vulnerability is unavoidable.
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    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.
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    Can Governments Still Steer the Economy?

    Robert Skidelsky explains why international finance and geopolitics make it harder to influence major performance indicators.
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    Accounting for Casino Capitalism

    Hans-Werner Sinn draws parallels between recent bank collapses and the late-nineteenth-century “founders’ crash.”
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    Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?

    Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks.
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    The Population Boon

    Beniamino Callegari & Per Espen Stoknes correct popular myths about the threat of demographic growth to sustainable development.
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    Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?

    Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world.
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    Beyond Industrial Policy

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elizabeth Garlow make the case for an economic strategy that prioritizes shared prosperity over competition.

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