Andrés Velasco
ANDRÉS VELASCO, A FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND FINANCE MINISTER OF CHILE, IS DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Tackling America’s diploma divide
What’s really driving the Trump administration’s war against elite universities
There is no method to Trump’s tariff madness
The president’s behaviour exposes the truth behind his tariff fusillade: it is not about the US economy, but about his desire to exercise unilateral power around the world
Where have all the flowers gone?
The writer reflects on how the country that took him in as a teenage refugee from Augusto Pinochet’s Chile has changed
The futile search for a US dollar rival
The Kazan summit’s communique calls for greater use of Brics members’ currencies in trade among themselves, but the writer sees no progress on the part of the group to challenge America
We are all Argentines
Why voters support misguided economic policies even after they have failed repeatedly
Latin America’s splendid isolation
Eighty years ago, Latin America, far removed from turmoil elsewhere, missed the opportunity to reshape its economies and societies, with the growth of the 1940s giving way to financial and economic cr...
Lula’s dance with dictators
WHEN a right-wing politician with authoritarian leanings – think Donald Trump – courts a genocidal dictator like Vladimir Putin, we recoil in distaste but are not surprised. But when a former human ri...
Flexible exchange rates and emerging markets
Has floating their currencies insulated countries from external shocks? Not entirely.
How the far left paves the way for the far right
IN MAY 2021, Chileans elected a constitutional convention where the far left reigned supreme and the right had fewer than the one-third of the seats required to block controversial provisions. That co...
The green transfer problem
The US$100 billion per year that rich countries promised back in 2009 to provide to finance developing countries’ green transitions is yet to materialise. There’s also the matter of how to ensure that...
