Section
Analysis
The arguments beneath the numbers — where the region is stuck and where it's moving.
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01
The Region, Read Straight
The flagship: what Latin America's economy actually is beneath the headlines — a region of commodity wealth and stubborn inequality, of reform and relapse, and why its story is more structural than the news cycle admits. Argued, grounded, no invented figures. Analysis · 12 min -
02
The Middle-Income Trap
Why so many Latin American economies got richer and then stalled — the structural argument about productivity, education and institutions, and what escaping the trap would take. Analysis · 8 min -
03
Informality and the Real Economy
The vast informal economy — the street vendors, cash work and off-the-books majority in much of the region — and why the real economy is bigger and harder to govern than the official one. Analysis · 5 min