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Structurally Maladjusted: Where do remittances come from?

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Where do remittances come from? Courtesy of the Inter-American Development Bank, we get this nice map breaking down the sources of US remittance flows to Latin America by state (click to enlarge). No real surprises here but it's a kinda nice map, no? Posted by Gringo Juan. July 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM. Only two comments to make. 1) The cream colour regions would be better labelled Insufficient Latin American Population (and ditch the data). Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? I told you to ...

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Structurally Maladjusted: Warning: This movie may contain revolution footage

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Saturday, July 17, 2010. Warning: This movie may contain revolution footage. From the San Francisco Chronicle review. Of " South of the Border. Advisory: Violence, corpses, revolution footage. Don't want to rile up the youth I suppose. South of the border. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). E-mail us at structurallymaladjusted@gmail.com. Subscribe to our RSS feed. Where do remittances come from? Toward a better understanding of poverty (wonkish). Do financial markets think Spain will default? Staying cl...

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Structurally Maladjusted: Argentina, where economic growth is a bad thing

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Thursday, July 1, 2010. Argentina, where economic growth is a bad thing. Only with Argentina, whom investors and the business community (and press) clearly haven't forgiven for defaulting in 2001, can rising GDP forecasts be reported as a bad thing. Bloomberg reported yesterday. Just a reminder that when reading the mainstream media's coverage of Latin America, it reads more like FOX News' coverage of Obama than what passes for good journalism on domestic issues. July 4, 2010 at 6:34 PM. But inflation in...

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Structurally Maladjusted: Weekend Update

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Monday, July 12, 2010. Lets keep it brief today:. The mainstream media finally noticed. That Colombia journalist Hollman Morris was denied a visa by the US. A week or so later, not too bad. With more coverage comes more details, and this looks pretty bad. From the WaPo. He was ineligible, U.S. officials told him, under the "terrorist activities" section of the USA Patriot Act." Really, the Patriot Act? With the DAS though? To Panama, where the latest seems to be an agreement being reached. With plenty mo...

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Structurally Maladjusted: Toward a better understanding of poverty (wonkish)

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Monday, July 19, 2010. Toward a better understanding of poverty (wonkish). Allow me to get my wonk on. It's becoming an increasingly mainstream idea. 104 developing countries) in advance of the upcoming 2010 Human Development Report to be released in the fall. Sounds good in theory, but what about in practice? In any case, onto the data. One thing to remember though is that not all these numbers are from the same year. Bolivia for instance is calculated based on 2003 data, Argentina with data fro...Look ...

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Structurally Maladjusted: The free trade sickness

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The free trade sickness. From a new NBER working paper. We learn that free trade agreements are like a virus. Yes indeed, FTAs are "contagious" in that countries are more likely to "catch" the free trade bug if a nearby country is already ill. True story. sorta. Abusing an already over-abused metaphor, the paper mentioned above seeks to explain why new waves of trade liberalization are usually clustered in particular geographic regions. And you know what? Oh, and even frivolous sc...

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Structurally Maladjusted: More on capital controls from writers less lazy than me!

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010. More on capital controls from writers less lazy than me! That's right: more productive corners of the intertubes have been busy covering the ongoing debate on capital controls. As our readers might recall, the IMF reversed it's long standing opposition to their use, accepting them as part of a macroeconomy's "policy toolkit." Dani "master of development policy" Rodrik referred to the IMF's policy change as "the end of an era of finance.". Well that was sooooo a few months ago.

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Structurally Maladjusted: Do financial markets think Spain will default?

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Monday, July 19, 2010. Do financial markets think Spain will default? But that won't stop the government and european authorities from inflicting pain on their populations in the name of fiscal austerity. As I'm sure Mal. Austerity advocates, in other words, argue that markets think Spain is in danger of defaulting, and if we don't heed their warning we'll have serious trouble. But first of all, that's a stupid anthropomorphism (markets don't have agency or thoughts, last time I checked). But mor...Well,...

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Structurally Maladjusted: U.S. to Hollman Morris: Stay Out!

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010. US to Hollman Morris: Stay Out! Just in case you needed further evidence that the Obama administration is continuing with the same policies towards Latin America as the Bush administration, prominent Colombian journalist Hollman Morris, who Big 'Al Uribe once called a "an ally of terrorism," was denied a visa by the US embassy in Bogota, this according to Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive. You may remember from a post awhile back. But I suppose he's been just a bit too criti...

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Structurally Maladjusted: Who said the press was free

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Thursday, July 15, 2010. Who said the press was free. This needs no additional commentary, from Jeremy Bigwood writing for NACLA. Buying Venezuela’s Press With U.S. Tax Dollars. The US. State Department is secretly funneling millions of dollars to Latin American journalists, according to documents. Channeled at least $4 million. To journalists in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela through the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF). Until now, the State Department has hidden its role in funding the Ven...