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Trouble in South America. For every Brazil, successfully transformed by a left-leaning president, there are bad leftist governments (Argentina) and then outright disasters (Venezuela). It’s such a waste as even in the aftermath of the financial crisis, opportunities for countries with the talents and resources like Argentina and Venezuela are multiple, as Brazil shows..

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As we’ve argued elsewhere, the quality of government matters much more than it’s ‘quantity.’ Chile is a definite example of this, and provides some interesting lessons, lessons from evidence based policies that we favour over ideologically informed (let alone self-serving) ones..

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Here is a pitch from Money Morning. We’re not entirely sold, but there are some interesting titbits we’ll discuss at the end.

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Despite falling commodity prices, too little investment and doctering inflation figures (in some cases, like Argentina), the continent was holding up relatively well, which is quite an achievement in itself as many previous crisis used to originate here. But never count out the ability of governments to shoot themselves in the foot. Especially the one […]

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