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The Case for a Globally Accepted Vulnerability Index
July 20, 2022 | Bridi Rice For SIDS, greater access to concessional financing is needed to prevent additional future crises that could potentially lead to conflict or protracted fragility contexts.

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Parsing Fact and Fiction in the Maduro Regime’s Narrative of Economic Recovery
April 22, 2022 | Ryan C. Berg CSIS Americas senior fellow Ryan C. Berg unpacks how the Maduro regime's selective economic liberalization enriches regime loyalists while leaving ordinary Venezuelans behind.

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Authoritarian Survival: Venezuelan Gold and Nicaragua’s Ortega-Murillo Regime
March 8, 2022 | Ryan C. Berg CSIS Americas senior fellow Ryan C. Berg and Karla Rios assess Nicaragua's role in laundering illegally mined gold from Venezuela and offer recommendations for how the Biden administration can clamp down on this illicit revenue.

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Venezuela: A Time for Opposition Reflection and Renovation
December 17, 2021 | Ryan C. Berg, Alexandra Winkler CSIS Americas senior fellow Ryan C. Berg and senior associate Alexandra Winkler assess Venezuela's recent regional elections and negotiations between the regime and opposition in Mexico City and make recommendations for revitalizing the Venezuelan opposition.

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Haitian Migration: Food Insecurity, Fragility, and a Better Way Forward
November 22, 2021 | Jamie Lutz, Erol Yayboke Recent coverage of Haitians arriving at the U.S. border is only a snapshot of a years-long journey in search of safety and food security. U.S. strategy toward Haiti must consider the links between hunger and migration and prioritize food security as a pillar of stability.

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Five Ways COVID-19 Is Changing Global Migration
March 25, 2020 | Erol Yayboke COVID-19 has caused unprecedented mobility restrictions. Whether by creating longer-term economic stress, greater inequality, more vulnerability to forced migrants, and increases in irregular migration, it could also be fundamentally changing the face of global migration.

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The Internet: Venezuela’s Lifeline
December 4, 2019 | Moises Rendon As the Maduro regime continues to block websites and limit independent media, Venezuelan citizens have begun looking for other roundabout ways to bypass the government's censorship.

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Venezuela’s Humanitarian Emergency: Putting Principles First
March 25, 2019 | Jacob Kurtzer

The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is rooted in political corruption and economic mismanagement. To respond to urgent needs, the United States must separate its own political agenda from genuine offers of humanitarian aid, argues CSIS’s Jacob Kurtzer.

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Is Haiti Unraveling?
February 20, 2019 | Georges A. Fauriol

While attention is rightly focused on Venezuela’s politico-humanitarian crisis, the precarious situation that has been evolving in Haiti over the past year has gotten dramatically worse. The crisis has rocked Haiti, and part of it links back to Venezuela.

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Humanitarian Engagement with North Korea—Great Need but Increasingly Difficult
September 4, 2018 | Robert R. King

As we consider next steps in the relationship with the North, humanitarian engagement should definitely be one issue on the table.

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The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis: The View from Brazil
May 18, 2018 | Moises Rendon

While Colombia is bearing the brunt of the mass exodus of Venezuelans, Brazil is also facing an unprecedented influx.

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Before You Cut Foreign Aid to Fund Defense, Consider Where it Goes and What it Does for U.S. Troops and National Security
March 13, 2017 | Anthony H. Cordesman

Foreign aid has long been seen as the stepchild of U.S. national security. Polls show that most Americans have a grossly exaggerated picture of the size of the U.S. foreign aid effort, and no idea of where it actually goes, or what its purpose is. For many Americans, foreign...


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