A year ago this month, the Simon Chair asked whether China’s economic policymakers had the right stuff to navigate a needed transition to a new model of economic...

The Chinese economy is off to a bumpy start in 2015. The International Monetary Fund is projecting real growth of 6.8 percent this year, the slowest in a quarter century.

After 30 years of spectacular growth, has China hit a wall? Certainly the country’s old growth model seems to be running out of steam: labor is no longer cheap, debt is rising at an alarming pace, and exports can no longer be the leading driver of growth. Even as the...

The prospect of the return of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is no longer a novelty; in fact, most observers of Mexican politics now assume that the party is a shoe-in for electoral victory in July 2012. Whether this is accurate remains to be seen, but it is...

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UP CLOSE: A New Narrative for Mexico

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: Returning Government to Colombia's Post-conflict Zones

IN BRIEF: Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Chile updates

The U.S.-Mexico bilateral relationship in recent months has been plagued by a series of highly sensitive issues. In December, Wikileaks postings revealed U.S. embassy dispatches critical of Mexico’s war on drug cartels and characterizing prospective presidential...

It is now more than ten years that the law governing the Mexican insolvency regime— the Ley de Concursos Mercantiles (LCM, best translated as the "Business Reorganization Act" of 2000)—was enacted and has been successfully applied in hundreds...

Polls of Americans who intended to vote in the election earlier this month indicated that some 36 percent were Democrats and about 33 percent Republicans. These percentages indicate that most U.S. elections are decided by independents. They are also decided by the failure of...

I have been following Latin American developments for more decades than I care to remember. My sense of Latin America at the beginning was ambiguous—I found the region culturally fascinating, but economically and socially deficient. The main deficiencies were volatile...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in January this year that the government could not limit spending by U.S. corporations and labor unions that favored particular candidates in upcoming elections. This reversed many earlier decisions. The reasoning of the majority was that...

Mexico and the United States have an antinarcotics arrangement. Each side contributes funds to this effort, the United States close to $500 million a year under the Mérida Initiative (the institution that defines the arrangement) and Mexico around $4.3 billion a year....