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October 28, 2011

Americas
Read of the Week: the Uphill Battle Against Money Laundering

Bundles of confiscated drug money worth two million euros ($2.7 million) are displayed at a police headquarters in Madrid January 18, 2011. (Andrea Comas/Courtesy Reuters) On Tuesday, the UN Office …

Read of the Week: the Uphill Battle Against Money Laundering

October 14, 2011

Economics
Reads of the Week: Social Networking in Latin America

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently released a report penned by Carl Meacham titled “Latin American Governments Need to ‘Friend’ Social Media and Technology,” calling on U.S. policymake…

Reads of the Week: Social Networking in Latin America

December 18, 2015

Development
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Modi’s Reform Agenda, the WTO, and 2015 UN Development Report

Modi’s Reforms at Odds A senior official in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is pushing a corruption probe that threatens to derail his own party’s Goods and Servic…

A labourer pushes a handcart loaded with sacks containing tea packets, towards a supply truck at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, June 26, 2015. For years Indian businesses have lobbied for a nationwide sales tax, hoping to replace a chaotic structure that inflates costs and halts their trucks at state borders for duty payments, and to unify the country into one of the world's largest single markets. But after political compromises that finally got a goods and services tax (GST) bill before parliament

September 19, 2011

China
CFR’s Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy

Container ship sails beneath Golden Gate Bridge en route to port in California (Robert Galbraith/Courtesy Reuters). Today the Council on Foreign Relations is releasing its independent Task Force rep…

CFR’s Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy

September 16, 2011

Economics
Reads of the Week: The Latin American Soybean Boom, Mexican Security Spending and U.S. Drug Markets

Workers harvest soybeans at a farm in Tangara da Serra, Brazil (Paulo Whitaker/Courtesy Reuters). A recent article by Mariano Turzi argues that soy is the most recent of Latin America’s commodity bo…

Reads of the Week: The Latin American Soybean Boom, Mexican Security Spending and U.S. Drug Markets