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Latin America and the Caribbean

Journal Article

Mexico Is Not Colombia: Seeking More Productive Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations

This article compares the security situation in Mexico to historical examples of similar situations in a range of other states.

Feb 16, 2015
Journal Article

How Do Management Fees Affect Retirement Wealth Under Mexico's Personal Retirement Accounts System?

In 1997, Mexico transformed its pay-as-you-go social security system to a fully funded system with personal retirement accounts, including management fees. This article examines changes in retirement wealth resulting from this new system.

Feb 16, 2015
Journal Article

Male Labor Force Participation and Social Security in Mexico

The retirement incentives of the Mexican social security system affect retirement behavior, and may be one of the main contributors to early retirement decisions, particularly for lower-income populations.

Feb 16, 2015
Report

Building the Guatemalan Interagency Task Force Tecún Umán: Lessons Identified

USSOUTHCOM intends to use the Interagency Task Force (IATF) Tecún Umán as a model for new counternarcotics units in Guatemala. This report describes lessons learned from the IATF and provides recommendations for resolving challenges.

Feb 9, 2015
Commercial Book

China's Great Leap Outward: Hard and Soft Dimensions of a Rising Power

This book brings together essays with material that explores China's economic and military expansion in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the core principles and motivations that guide China's growing influence in Latin America and Africa.

Jan 29, 2015
Report

Understanding the factors that matter in the implementation of Bolsa Família: Using an analysis of federal datasets to look inside the programme's 'black box'

This report aims to promote a greater understanding of how the 'black box' of implementation in a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme interacts with the quality of implementation.

Jan 28, 2015
Journal Article

Symptoms of Anxiety on Both Sides of the US-Mexico Border: The Role of Immigration

The authors examine the prevalence of symptoms of anxiety in a bi-national context.

Jan 19, 2015
Report

Developing and Testing Informed-Consent Methods in a Study of the Elderly in Mexico

This report documents a culturally sensitive process developed to obtain informed consent from elderly human research subjects in Yucatan while observing U.S. and Mexican norms and regulations for conducting such research.

Jan 13, 2015
Journal Article

Effects of Income Supplementation on Health of the Poor Elderly: The Case of Mexico

The poor elderly who received an income supplement had significantly better health, including improvements in lung functioning and memory.

Jan 8, 2015
Journal Article

Impact of Food Support on Food Security and Body Weight Among HIV Antiretroviral Therapy Recipients in Honduras: A Pilot Intervention Trial

Optimal strategies to improve food security and nutrition for people living with HIV (PLHIV) may differ in settings where overweight and obesity are prevalent and cardiovascular disease risk is a concern.

Dec 11, 2014
Commentary

Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes Are Scary, but Do They Work?

“Graphic warning labels” pair gruesome images with warnings about the dangers of smoking, covering anywhere from 30 to 80 percent of cigarette pack “faces” (the front and back). Do they prevent people from starting to smoke or cause current smokers to quit?

Sep 30, 2014
Blog

Summer Reading for Congress

No matter how policymakers spend their break—meeting with home-state constituents, traveling abroad with congressional delegations, or spending time with family—this summer reading list contains policy ideas that can help them hit the ground running when they return.

Jul 31, 2014
Commentary

With Child Migrants Set to Become Students, Educators Must Prepare

Between 70,000 and 90,000 unaccompanied children are expected to cross the U.S.-Mexico border by year's end. Lost in an intensifying debate over U.S. immigration policy is the possibility that this wave will spill from shelters to schools. To best respond to this reality, policymakers and educators should consider what research says about educating migrant children.

Jul 14, 2014
Report

Geographic Targeting in Urban Areas: A Social-Welfare Program for Older People in Mexico

This report compares results of a social-gap index and those of other tools used to target social-welfare programs in Mexico. It also assesses the feasibility of targeting delivery of noncontributory pensions for older people who live in urban areas.

Jul 1, 2014
Commentary

Are We Entering a New Era of Cannabis Regulation?

Although international drug treaties prohibit the production, distribution, and possession of cannabis for non-medical and non-scientific purposes, several jurisdictions have implemented new laws and policies, including some that remove criminal penalties for possession of small doses of cannabis.

May 22, 2014
Infographic

Mexicans Work and Work, But Will Retirement Work for Them?

This Window on the World illustrates the demographic trends that lie ahead for Mexico whose elderly population is projected to increase 370 percent by 2050.

May 14, 2014
Report

Programa de Pensiones No Contributivas para Adultos Mayores en Yucatán, México: Diseño, Implementación y Evaluación del Programa en Mérida

This report describes Yucatan's efforts to design, implement, and evaluate a program to provide cash benefits to the elderly to improve their well-being. It describes the program, its design and implementation, and the evaluation in Merida.

May 13, 2014
Report

Programa de Pensiones No Contributivas para Adultos Mayores en Yucatán, México: Diseño, Implementación y Evaluación del Programa en Valladolid

This report describes Yucatan's efforts to design, implement, and evaluate a program to provide cash benefits to the elderly to improve their well-being. It describes the program, its design and implementation, and the first evaluation in Valladolid.

May 13, 2014
Report

Distributing Noncontributory Pension Benefits by Debit Card in Mexico: A Pilot Test

This report describes a pilot test of debit-card disbursal of pensions in Yucatan, Mexico, and explores the results from several surveys of the pilot group.

May 6, 2014
Report

Mortality Expectations of Older Mexicans: Development and Testing of Survey Measures

Low literacy, language barriers, and cultural biases can hinder respondents' ability to answer mortality-expectation questions. Researchers experimented with new ways of asking these questions and report here what they learned.

May 6, 2014

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