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September 25, 2015

Wars and Conflict
This Week in Markets and Democracy: U.S. Fights Corruption, Preventing Mass Atrocities, and More

CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy (CSMD) Program highlights noteworthy events and articles each Friday in “This Week in Markets and Democracy.”  The U.S. Fight Against International Corrup…

Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary-General addresses a plenary meeting of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 at United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York, September 25, 2015. More than 150 world leaders are expected to attend the U.N. Sustainable Development Summit from September 25-27 at the United Nations in New York to formally adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda a press statement by the U.N. stated. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters).
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Development Channel

March 10, 2011

Economics
Latin America’s Moment

Amid all its diversity, Latin America has never mattered more for the United States. The Western Hemisphere is now indelibly tied through commerce, energy, people, and politics. This blog aims to mak…

A child holding flowers during International Women's Day in Lima, March 8, 2011 (Mariana Bazo/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America’s Moment

January 28, 2011

Americas
Breaking the Cycle

I published an article with my colleague Dora Beszterczey in the Winter 2011 issue of the Americas Quarterly on the impact of opportunities and jobs lost to insecurity and the disproportionate costs …

AQ courtesy of Buda Mendes.Latin Content.Getty
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America’s Moment

August 3, 2015

Asia
Where Did You Get That Dress?: Bangladesh Two Years on From Rana Plaza

On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza factory, which manufactured apparel for Benetton, Primark, and J.C. Penney, among others, collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The disaster killed over 1,100 and injured …

Bangladesh
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Development Channel