As a result of rapid technological advances, widespread regulatory change and continuing globalization of the world economy over the last twenty years, we have witnessed a resumption in the growth in living standards in most countries from their stalled levels in the 1970s. Unfortunately, these...

As we enter the 21st century, Paraguay, a country of 5.2m people, is only "reluctantly" and at "glacial speed" making tentative moves to put in place the necessary ingredients to promote sustained growth and development within a fiercely competitive regional and global economy to the end of...

Despite almost two decades of economic and financial reform following the collapse of the economy at the beginning of the 1980s, Bolivia, a country of 9 million people, still has the lowest GDP per capita in South America and an official poverty rate that exceeds 60% of the population. Despite...

International financial crime - tax evasion, money laundering and financing terrorism -- is a generic term referring to the placement and movement of financial assets that have their source in criminal activities, which is occurring in greater magnitude and with greater frequency in the global...

Despite the challenging domestic security environment Colombia's program of economic and financial reform is continuing. As will be argued below the egregious level of civil strife that has saturated the country over the last five decades has adversely affected all the major components of the...