CEO of Smartlink Communications . Global analyst, consultant and trainer, passionate about leadership, global communications and competition. getty As Richard Haas, formerly the chief of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in 2016 in Project Syndicate, "People are missing much of what is going on in Latin America – and much of what is going on is good." From my perspective, Latin America looked good, if not spectacular, at many points in history as well. Yet, Latin America has also experienced challenges. For example, 1820 to 1870 has been described as " decades of ‘lost growth.’ " Afterward, between 1870 and 1970, Latin America grew economically, as it was less affected by the world wars than either Europe, Asia or North America. However, by the 1980s, the debt crisis had been set in motion. Later, during the 1990s and early 2000s, Chinese development helped create the commodity super cycle just as the information revolution was sweeping over the region (download required). This helped improve decades of sluggish total factor productivity growth . But, as I learned from Francis Fukuyama in Falling Behind , per capita income for Latin America in comparison to the United States has fallen over the […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
