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LatAmSource

Apr 13, 2014

Latin America: Social Impact Investment Grows

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

In Latin America, there is clear need to promote entrepreneurship that seeks both economic return as well as social impact.

Trade in Action

Apr 11, 2014

What We’re Reading: April 10

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business
Trade and tariffs

Emerging Defense Challenges

Apr 11, 2014

Corporate Strategy Forum Discusses Next Military-Industrial Revolution

Three years into an “age of austerity” in Western military spending, expectations are building for a wave of restructuring in the defense industry, similar to what followed the end of the Cold War. Just as before, fundamental change to the context for international security is resetting customers’ expectations, investors’ outlooks, and, in turn, corporate strategies.

Defense Industrialist

Apr 10, 2014

More engineering, less lawyering, please.

By James Hasik

What We Need from General Dynamics in the AMPV Competition The drama continues in the US Army’s effort to replace its longest-serving armored vehicles, the M113s. General Dynamics is threatening to complain to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the mobility standards required and the technical data provided in the competition are inadequate to […]

Trade in Action

Apr 9, 2014

What We’re Reading: April 8

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business
Trade and tariffs

Event Recap

Apr 8, 2014

International Financial Regulation in the Post-Crisis Era

The Georgetown Journal of International Law, in collaboration with the Atlantic Council, held a high-level symposium entitled International Financial Regulation in the Post-Crisis Era on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at Georgetown Law in Washington, DC. The event featured commentary from leading scholars and practitioners in the field of international financial regulation, as well as officials […]

In the News

Apr 7, 2014

Greene: A Shift in German Policy? Not So Fast!

By Megan Greene

Global Business and Economics Program Senior Fellow Megan Greene writes in the Sunday Business Post on how the European Central Bank will tackle low inflation:

Trade in Action

Apr 3, 2014

What We’re Reading: April 3

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business
Trade and tariffs

LatAmSource

Apr 3, 2014

Hashtagging Violence Towards Women in Brazil

By Natalie Alhonte

The internet has given new meaning to the notion that Latin Americans love to connect. The region has the fastest growing internet population in the world and 97% of its users are on social media platforms. By comparison, in the U.S. only 67% of internet users are on social media platforms.  South America’s largest country […]

Brazil

Commanders Series

Apr 2, 2014

Breaking Defense Covers Amos Speech

Breaking Defense covers General Amos’ speech at the Atlantic Council:

Events