Review of Latin America Since the Left Turn

Equity in Latin America Since the 1990s

Pedro Sáinz is a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas (INE) Chile and Instituto Brasileiro de Geografi a e Statistica (IBGE) on public information systems as well as on poverty analysis and policies. He was Director of the Economic Projections Centre and of the Statistical Division of the Economic Com...

The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence

Latin America at the Turn of a New Century

The great economic, social and institutional changes engendered by development often progress slowly and haltingly. Consequently, advances in the development process are best measured over a long period of time. Using the start of a new century as its milestone, this edition of the Economic and Social Progress Report assesses Latin America’s evolving development process in its various dimension...

The Pragmatic Turn of Democracy in Latin america

The expansion and incorporation of experimentalist forms of government in a number of Latin American democracies does not aim to destabilize representative institutions, nor to substitute them with alternative, participatory or deliberative ones. Rather, this pragmatic change in Latin American democracies attempts to correct some of the alleged failures of representative institutions as well as...

The Rise of Populism and the Left in Latin America

Latin America’s “left turn” was the focus of a cluster of thoughtful articles in the October 2006 issue of this journal. Since then, the trend toward the left and toward populist governments has deepened. In South America, the rise of the left is unmistakable, with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela led by presidents with varying degrees and shapes ...