PUBLICATIONS
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Brookings Institution
CIPPEC
IDB/Corpovisionarios
CALENDAR
Here are some of AQ’s top picks for conferences
and cultural events being held across the
hemisphere over the next few months.
April 30–May 13
St. Lucia
St. Lucia Jazz
St. Lucia Tourist Board
www.stluciajazz.org
May 15–18
Havana, Cuba
Encuentro Anual sobre Manejo y Gestión de Centros
Históricos
UNESCO
www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events
May 18–22
Buenos Aires, Argentina
arteBA
arteBA Fundación
www.arteba.org
May 21–23
Quito, Ecuador
Inter-American Conference on Corporate Social
Responsibility
Multilateral Investment Fund
www.csramericas2012.com
May 23–26
San Francisco, CA
XXX International Congress: LASA2012
Latin American Studies Association
lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng
June 6–9
Bogotá, Colombia
Feria Internacional del Medio Ambiente 2012
El Centro Internacional de Negocios y Exposiciones
www.feriadelmedioambiente.com
June 8–17
Toronto, Canada
Luminato Festival of Arts and Creativity
Luminato6
www.luminato.com
June 14
Bogotá, Colombia
Latin American Cities Conference
Americas Society/Council of the Americas
www.as-coa.org
July 6–15
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Feria Internacional del Libro en Ecuador
Horitzo Grup
www.expolibro.com.ec
The unprecedented process
of economic reform currently
under way will irreversibly
change Cuba’s domestic
political economy. According
to a new report, Reaching Out:
Cuba’s New Economy and the
International Response, published
by the Latin America Initiative
at the Brookings Institution, the changes are also
providing openings for outside assistance, once
thought impossible. This timely monograph
recommends that the United States create the
possibility for multilateral relations and contacts,
concluding, “Now is the time for the international
development community to engage in Cuba, to
support the incipient economic reform process.”
Transportation subsidies are a serious issue throughout
Latin America and are particularly important in
Argentina after the tragic train crash earlier this
year. A new report by Argentine think tank Centro
de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la
Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC) titled El ABC de
los subsidios al transporte presents a comprehensive
cost-benefit analysis of transportation subsidies,
with a special focus on public transportation in
Buenos Aires. It also looks at alternative approaches
in Chile and Brazil in an effort to identify some
best practices elsewhere in the region, to inform
the ongoing debate in Argentina and beyond.
In a new collaborative effort by the
Inter-American Development Bank
and the Colombian consulting firm
Corpovisionarios, former Bogotá
Mayor Antanas Mockus leads a
team of authors to present the
findings of a multiyear study on
violence and insecurity in Latin
America. The report, Antípodas de
la violencia: Desafíos de cultura
ciudadana para la crisis de (in)
seguridad en América Latina, includes survey results
on citizen security in Bogotá, Medellín, La Paz, Belo
Horizonte, Mexico City, Monterrey, Caracas, and Quito.
It explores security policies, two decades of security
reforms in Bogotá, and youth as both victims and
perpetrators of violence. The report confirms the dual
role of culture as an element of conflict and insecurity,
and as a powerful contributor to social harmony,
respect for the rule of law and citizen security.
Antípodas
de la violencia
Desafíos de
cultura ciudadana
para la crisis de
(in)seguridad en
América Latina
Antanas Mockus
Henry Murraín
María Villa
(Coordinadores)
All publications can be accessed through links at
www.americasquarterly.org/think-tanks-spring12
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