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Roberto Laserna

Roberto Laserna

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Roberto Laserna is an economist at CERES, a private research center in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and President of Fundacion Milenio, a think tank in La Paz.

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  1. Latin America’s Populist Cycles
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    Latin America’s Populist Cycles

    Aug 6, 2014 Roberto Laserna cautions against excessive confidence in the region's capacity for sustained economic reform.

  2. Earth to Evo Morales
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    Earth to Evo Morales

    Mar 12, 2013 Roberto Laserna

  3. Endgame for Evo?
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    Endgame for Evo?

    Nov 16, 2011 Roberto Laserna

  4. Evo Morales and the Populist Paradox
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    Evo Morales and the Populist Paradox

    Apr 8, 2010 Roberto Laserna

  5. The March of the Caudillos

    The March of the Caudillos

    Nov 12, 2007 Roberto Laserna

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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