External Debt, Savings, and Growth in Latin America. Edited by Ana Maria Martirena-Mantel. Washington: International Monetary Fund, 1987. 207p. $12.00 paper. - Crises in the Caribbean Basin. Edited by Richard T. Tardanico. Newberry Park, CA: Sage, 1987. 264p. $29.95.

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 697-699
Author(s):  
Robert H. Trudeau
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
External Debt ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
The Caribbean

Soviet Interests in Latin America: New Opportunities and Old Constraints

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Raymond Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Soviet Policy ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The U.S

The October 1983 crisis in Grenada left little doubt that the Soviet and Cuban presence had been expanding in the Caribbean basin. But the October crisis did not answer questions regarding the extent of their actual influence there, nor the direction it might take in the future, nor even what the most appropriate U.S. policy responses should be to that influence elsewhere in the region. Therefore, in the wake of the U.S. occupation of Grenada and the evidence it uncovered about the degree of Soviet and Cuban activity there, it is useful to examine the kind of situations that have encouraged the Soviets to expand their presence and/or influence in Latin America. At the same time, it equally is useful to examine the limitations or constraints on such an expanded presence or influence.Clearly, Soviet policy in Latin America has been the product of two conflicting forces or tendencies.

Hemispheric Security: A New Approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 108 (715) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
John A. Cope ◽  
Frank O. Mora
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Caribbean

The Obama administration will encounter in Latin America and the Caribbean Basin a new strategic environment, in which security issues will require innovative attention.

scholarly journals Universal Social Pensions Are Unaffordable … Not! Testing the Unaffordability Hypothesis in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gibran Cruz-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
External Debt ◽  
Global South ◽  
Military Expenditure ◽  
Energy Subsidies ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Deserving Poor ◽  
The Caribbean

Is universal social assistance unaffordable? Targeting social policy has been praised as a magic solution to select the ‘deserving poor’ and efficiently use the scarce resources in the Global South. The article tests the unaffordability hypothesis using five counterfactual analyses based on expenditure redirection (military expenditure, energy subsidies, and the potential illegal/odious external debt servicing) and increasing tax revenues (income and trade tax) in up to thirty-three countries. The article shows the revenue-generating potential of taxes and reprioritising expenditures from unproductive to productive areas to finance – totally or partly- basic universal social pensions in large part of Latin America and the Caribbean; therefore, dispelling the unaffordability myth.

Social Responsibility and the Technology Paradigm in Latin America

2005 ◽  
pp. 2529-2533
Author(s):  
Herberto Ochao-Morales
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Political Union ◽  
Customs Unions ◽  
Integration Schemes ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Common Markets ◽  
Andean Community

In Latin America, regional as well as multilateral integration schemes have a predominant role within integration agreements. A representation of this includes MERCOSUR: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. The Andean Community of Nations (CAN) is composed of Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela and the Group of Three (G3): Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. Another regional pact is the CARICOM, composed of English speaking countries within the Caribbean Basin. These organizations have the intent to establish, among other components, free trade areas, customs unions, common markets, and economic unions; all covenants that, in the future, may evolve into a political union (S.C.A. et al., 1998).

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