Global Issues
The Frontiers of Hunger
Antonio Navalón The century in which most of us were born, by us I mean those who share this space with me through your reading – for which I am grateful -, was a century that began characterized by a continuous dance of frontiers. It …
IMF’s World Economic Outlook, Fall 2021
Recovery During a Pandemic, Health Concerns, Supply Disruptions, and Price Pressures The global recovery continues but the momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic. Fueled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, the recorded global COVID-19 death toll has risen close to 5 million and health …
Global Organized Crime Index
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime The Global Organized Crime Index is the first tool of its kind designed to assesslevels of organized crime and resilience to organized criminal activity. It includes inits rankings all the UN member states – 193 countries.The results, which draw …
Migration: the Pandemic of Hate
Antonio Navalón From the Book of Books to the other installments that history has given us as if they were a kind of bundles of the Apocalypse, it is written that there are times when crises are triggered and behave in such a way that …
Corruption
Image: Tupungato on iStock Luis Rubio When he was a comedian on television in Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, garbed in a prison inmate’s uniform, criticized the corruption of the politicians, accusing them of being atheists and not being able to imagine a better life than that deriving from the reigning corruption. Three years later, as President …
Noah’s Week
Image: Chinnapong on iStock Juan Villoro 2020 ended submerged in the pandemic. The only thing we can hope for in the uncertain future is that it drifts away from the present. We are in parentheses, something new for a world that was defined by rush, instant gratification, traveling everywhere until recently. Nobody educated us to …
Valuable Text on Trade
Manuel Suárez Mier* Here is a short chronicle of the magnificent new book by the eminent economist Anne Krueger. The most recent book by the great economist Anne Krueger, International Trade: What Everyone Needs to Know [1] has just been published, which is a feat …
Lettuce for Singles
Photo: NastyaSensei on Pexels Juan Villoro Childhood exists so that adult life becomes mysterious. It is not the same to meet a criminal lawyer today as to have met him when he was six years old and was dedicated to killing ants and sometimes eating them (the interesting thing is not that a child does …