Author: Jerry Haar
No region of the world, save Africa, is less prepared to contend with the challenges brought by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) than Latin America and the Caribbean. While Latin America and the Caribbean did not begin ...
“Sluggish,” “lackluster,” “underperforming”. Any one of these terms accurately describes Latin America’s economic performance in 2019. That is not good news. Most discouraging is that 2020 will not be much better. The latest report from ...
“Lento”, “mediocre”, “bajo rendimiento”. Cualquiera de estos términos describe con precisión el desempeño económico de América Latina en 2019. Esa no es una buena noticia. Lo más desalentador es que 2020 no será mucho mejor. ...
Economist E.F. Schumacher’s 1973 opus Small is Beautiful advocates for small, appropriate technologies that are believed to empower people above a “bigger is better” philosophy of economic development. The advantages of bigness are obvious—among them ...
By Jerry Haar, professor of international business at Florida International University and Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. Which of these statements is true? Increased economic growth makes people ...
By Jerry Haar, business professor at Florida International University and Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and Camilo Trout Lastra, Chief Strategist at Inversiones Trout Lastra , S.A.S. ...