The recent hurricane in Haiti, Hurricane Matthew, has sparked discussion among socially conscious individuals and aid-providing organizations. With the 2010 earthquake leaving Haiti in a devastating state, many critics have pointed out that aid to Haiti in 2010 was more harmful than helpful and with this new natural disaster there is pressure to not repeat what so many call a foreign aid failure.
When dictators seize power, they must decide how to deal with pre-existing political parties. Some dictators opt to repress all parties, as General Augusto Pinochet did in Chile 1973-1990.
O mundo todo assistiu quando a presidenta Dilma Rousseff foi oficialmente afastada do governo brasileiro no dia 31 de agosto. O ex-vice presidente Michel Temer agirá como o presidente até as novas eleições em outubro de 2018. Ele terá muitos desafios macroeconômicos para resolver, incluindo quase 12 milhões de brasileiros desempregados, uma economia que encolheu 3,8% no segundo trimestre de 2016 e a inflação chegando aos 10% (“Time for Temer”, 2016). Quais são os desafios principais que Temer vai confrontar, e o que ele está fazendo?
In June 2015, members of the United Nations joined at the Addis Ababa development financing conference. At the head of the docket was the topic of tax evasion, and developing countries pushed for the creation of an intergovernmental tax body within the UN which would ultimately establish global tax rules and help eliminate tax havens.
The Legalization of Dispute Resolution in Mercosur from Christian Arnold and Berthold Rittberger, published in August 2013 in the Journal of Politics in Latin America, discusses how Mercosur, one of the world’s largest trading blocs and examples of
Gradual Reforms or Disagreement on How Much Market Activity Should Cuba Allow?
