Government officials from South Korea, China, and Peru, along with private sector experts and others, offered first-hand insight into current and future areas of inter-regional cooperation. Asia-Latin America free trade is on the rise as Peru prepares to host the 2008 APEC annual summit.
Latin America’s eyes are on China and India. Both countries are admired for their economic success over the past years, but also have become an increasing source of mistrust as they might be displacing us on the global markets of manufactured goods and flows of foreign investment.
When the presidents of Mercosur countries gathered in Córdoba, Argentina last week to celebrate Venezuela’s entry and discuss plans for the “great gas pipeline of the south,” a key item was missing from their discussion: technological innovation.
Review 72 is devoted to the rich and riveting history of the cultural and economic exchanges between Asia and Latin America. It explores a number of New World traditions that flourished through five centuries of cultural interplay among the artists, writers, musicians, merchants, explorers, and visionaries of both regions.
This innovative exhibition explores the descriptive tradition of "costumbrismo" as it developed in South America in the first half of the nineteenth century. The catalogue focuses on the cultural responses opened up by trade and commerce in the nineteenth century, and also traces the broad circulation of costume books, prints, and watercolors within South America, Asia, and Europe.
COA will host a panel of finance experts on September 18 in Washington D.C., to assess Latin America’s sluggish growth in 2019 and opportunities for growth in 2020.
AS/COA and the National Center for APEC host a discussion in Miami on opportunities for private sector engagement when Peru hosts the APEC meetings in 2016.
