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Audio: Dealing with the Causes: Mexico’s Economic Policy and Migration - Panel 4

mentman — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:37:44 -0500

Panel 4: What can the United States do? (3:10-4:45)

Susan Martin (Moderator & Speaker): Executive Director, Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration

B. Lindsay Lowell: Director of Policy Studies, Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration

Audio: Dealing with the Causes: Mexico’s Economic Policy and Migration - Panel 3

mentman — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:29:57 -0500

Panel 3: Economic Reforms in Mexico (1:40-3:05)

Antonio Ortiz-Mena (Moderator & Speaker): Head of Section, Economic Affairs, Mexican Embassy

Rodolfo Cruz-Piñeiro: Professor, Population Studies, El Colegio De La Frontera Norte (COLEF)

Andrew Selee: Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Video: Dealing with the Causes: Mexico’s Economic Policy and Migration

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:21:20 -0500

Lunch: Keynote Speakers (12:15-1:30)
Moderator: Sidney Weintraub

Rafael Fernández de Castro: Presidential Advisor, International Affairs and Competitiveness and founder and head of the Department of International Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Audio: Dealing with the Causes: Mexico’s Economic Policy and Migration - Lunch Keynotes

mentman — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:42:25 -0500

Lunch: Keynote Speakers (12:15-1:30)
Moderator: Sidney Weintraub

Audio: Dealing with the Causes: Mexico’s Economic Policy and Migration - Panel 2

mentman — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:35:57 -0500

Panel 2: The Connection between Mexico’s Low Economic Growth and Migration (10:20-12:00)

Raúl Delgado Wise (Moderator & Speaker): Director of Development Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas and President of Red Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo

Audio: Dealing with the Causes: Mexico’s Economic Policy and Migration - Intro and Panel 1

mentman — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:02:39 -0500

Welcoming Remarks (8:30-8:45)

Sidney Weintraub
Holder of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy

Panel 1: The Current State of Mexican Migration to the United States (8:50-10:15)

Audio: Cooperative Mexican - U.S. Antinarcotics Efforts

mentman — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:39:39 -0500

Cooperative Mexican - U.S. Antinarcotics Efforts

The Simon Chair in Political Economy is please to host a presentation of a new report by Sidney Weintraub and Duncan Wood

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - On Elections - November 2010 - Number 131

mentman — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:02:36 -0500

Polls of Americans who intended to vote in the election earlier this month indicated that some 36 percent were Democrats and about 33 percent Republicans. These percentages indicate that most U.S. elections are decided by independents.

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - Latin America is in Good Shape - October 2010 - Number 130

mentman — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:28:32 -0400

I have been following Latin American developments for more decades than I care to remember. My sense of Latin America at the beginning was ambiguous—I found the region culturally fascinating, but economically and socially deficient.

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - U.S. Democracy Shortcomings - August 2010 - Number 128

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:31:12 -0400

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in January this year that the government could not limit spending by U.S. corporations and labor unions that favored particular candidates in upcoming elections. This reversed many earlier decisions. The reasoning of the majority was that the government could not regulate political speech.

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - Mexico's War on Drugs - July 2010 - Number 127

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:07:44 -0400

Mexico and the United States have an antinarcotics arrangement. Each side contributes funds to this effort, the United States close to $500 million a year under the Mérida Initiative (the institution that defines the arrangement) and Mexico around $4.3 billion a year.

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - Reality Comes to the Fore - May 2010 - Number 125

mentman — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:56:52 -0400

Most of us have been mugged recently by reality. I am referring to the reckless behavior of investment banks in fostering subprime mortgages and then packaging these in securities that inevitably had to crash because of the largely worthless instruments they contained.

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - Unequal Partners: the United States and Mexico

mentman — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:24:37 -0400

Audio from this newsletter: Issues in International Political Economy - Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico - April 2010 - Number 124

Video: Unequal Partners: the United States and Mexico: Introductory Remarks

pfrank — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:47:14 -0400

Video: Unequal Partners: the United States and Mexico: Panel Discussion

pfrank — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:43:58 -0400

CSIS hosted a book launch event for Unequal Partners: the United States and Mexico, written by Sidney Weintraub, holder of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy.

Panel Discussion

Andrew Selee Director, Mexico Institute Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Peter Hakim President Inter-American Dialogue

Audio: Unequal Partners: the United States and Mexico

mentman — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:23:19 -0400

CSIS hosted a book launch event for Unequal Partners: the United States and Mexico, written by Sidney Weintraub, holder of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy.

Welcome

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - Mexico-U.S. Non-Discussion of Migration

sherry — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:44:37 -0400

Audio from this newsletter. Issues in International Political Economy - Mexico-U.S. Non-Discussion of Migration - March 2010 - Number 123.

Audio: The Unending Campaign against NAFTA

pfrank — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:06:53 -0500

Many Mexicans and Americans display vague misgivings about the North American Free Trade Agreement; their comments indicate that this is largely because the agreement did not turn out to be a development panacea.The core of Mexico´s growth problem, in my view, is political—namely, the inability to deal with structural problems affecting taxes, energy, education, labor markets, monop

Audio: U.S. Tolerance of Income Inequality

pfrank — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:52:45 -0500

Tolerance of the extent of income inequality varies among countries. Acceptance of income inequality is higher in the United States than in any other developed country. Many U.S.

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - Situation in Latin America--Year-end 2009

pfrank — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:13:36 -0500

Audio from this newsletter. Issues in International Political Economy - Situation in Latin America--Year-end 2009 - December 2009 -Number 120.

Audio: Issues in International Political Economy - The Cost of Questionable Policies

sherry — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:58:57 -0500

This is the audio podcast for newsletter Issues in International Political Economy - November 2009 - Number 119 - The Cost of Questionable Policies.

Audio: Getting an Education about the Real World

pfrank — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:45:52 -0400

Most of the U.S. population got an education during the past two years about what exists in the real world. Before then the dominant dogma exemplified a narrow ideology that leaves no room for the preventive and corrective roles of government when making economic policy.

Mexico and the United States: Each President Seeks Change in the National Tone

sherry — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:28:18 -0400

President Felipe Calderón just delivered his third annual Informe and it calls for a thoroughgoing change in policy direction. President Barack Obama, for this part, is trying to rescue as much of his health-care proposal as he can from a confrontational Congress.

Audio: President Obama's Negotiating Technique

pfrank — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:55:39 -0400

The best spokesman for change is President Obama because of his great rhetorical ability and the fact that his public popularity is higher than that of either his supporters or opponents; the time for compromise should be after Obama makes his own case for his proposals.

Audio: The Essentials of U.S. Policy towards Latin America

pfrank — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:37:23 -0400

The best posture for the U.S. government in dealing with Latin America is to demonstrate, by stimulating the U.S. economy and avoiding protectionism, that the United States is sincere in wanting to help countries of the region.

Audio: CSIS Press Briefing: President Obama's Trip to Mexico and the Summit of the Americas

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:34:00 -0400

Recording of the event "CSIS Press Briefing: President Obama's Trip to Mexico and the Summit of the Americas."

Audio: The Leader of the Free World

pfrank — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:44:13 -0400

The United States often describes itself as the leader of the free world. We certainly are right now—leading the world economy down. Because it is hard to grasp the enormity of the global damage, I will focus on Mexico, a country important to the United States. Mexico is fortunate that it entered 2008 in good financial shape because the fallout from what happened in the U.S.

Audio: Learning about Ourselves from Financial Crisis

pfrank — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:47:28 -0500

Capitalism will endure as long as the winners from this economic system compensate the losers. We have long known about the tunnel vision, the importance of ideology in decision making, and the potential consequences of income inequality, but their intensity has become clearer in recent months.

Audio: Looking Inward in an Age of Globalization

pfrank — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:41:12 -0500

The world is now experiencing a searing example of the speed at which a U.S. financial breakdown spreads globally.

Audio: Comments on the Eve of President Obama's Inauguration

pfrank — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:56:43 -0500

Some 5,300 people were killed in Mexico in 2008 stemming from the drug trade. The violence that accompanies the shipment and sales of narcotics from and through Mexico to the United States stems primarily from U.S. antinarcotics policies. It would be useful if President Obama states early in his administration that U.S. anti-narcotics activities are not working as intended.

Audio: What Can We Believe in Now

pfrank — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:58:04 -0500

Trust in decisionmaking in the United States has almost completely evaporated. This is true with respect to government, Congress, private companies, and the regulatory arena, where public and private intersect.The main issue I wish to raise in this commentary is whether the current anger will result in durable changes.

Video: CSIS Press Briefing: APEC Summit

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:59:11 -0500

This is a recording of the CSIS Press Briefing: APEC Summit.