Authors: Lakshmi Iyer, Francisco Rodríguez
Keough School of Global Affairs, September 2021
Venezuela entered hyperinflation at the end of 2017, preceded by several years of large budget deficits and declining oil revenues. Despite many policy attempts to bring inflation under control, including currency redenomination, introduction of a new cryptocurrency, allowing de facto dollarization, and easing price...
Topics: Business & Economics, Policy
Authors: Madhav Joshi , Sophia Henn
Peace Accords Matrix, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, August 2021
The ongoing Afghan peace process, which officially started with the signing of the Doha Agreement between the United States and the Taliban in February 2020, involves a complex network of actors. This study leverages social network analysis (SNA) to draw insights from original data...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Author: Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative
Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs, May 2021
Este informe muestra el estado de la implementación del Acuerdo Final en el periodo comprendido entre diciembre de 2019 y noviembre de 2020, conforme a la metodología de seguimiento diseñada por el Instituto Kroc. El informe presenta una visión cuantitativa y cualitativa de la...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Author: Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative
Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs, May 2021
The Kroc Institute’s fifth comprehensive report, The Colombian Final Agreement in the Era of COVID-19: Institutional and Citizen Ownership is Key to Implementation, discusses the Final Accord’s status of implementation in the period between December 2019 and November 2020, based on the monitoring methodology designed...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Author: Matriz de Acuerdos de Paz Iniciativa Barómetro
Matriz de Acuerdos de Paz Iniciativa Barómetro, parte del Instituto Kroc de Estudios Internacionales de Paz en la Escuela Keough de Asuntos Globales, May 2021
El quinto informe integral del Instituto Kroc, El acuerdo final colombiano en la era del COVID-19: la propiedad institucional y ciudadana es clave para la implementación, muestra el estado de la implementación del Acuerdo Final en el periodo comprendido entre diciembre de 2019 y...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Authors: Steve Reifenberg, Luke Maillie
Keough School of Global Affairs, May 2021
In rural Chiapas, Mexico, poor patients often struggle to accesss surgical care and other medical treatment, even though access is guaranteed by law under the Mexican constitution. This case examines an innovative approach developed by Compañeros en Salud to accompany patients from rural communities...
Topics: Health
Author: Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
Kellogg Institute, May 2021
Despite the formal end of civil war and armed conflict, Mexico continued to experience significant levels of violence during the 1930s and 1940s. This period has traditionally been associated with the process of pacification, institutionalization, and centralization of power that enabled the consolidation of...
Topics: Civil & Human Rights
Author: Adela Cedillo
Kellogg Institute, May 2021
In the late 1960s, the Mexican government launched a series of counternarcotics campaigns characterized by the militarization of drug production zones, particularly in the northwestern region—the so-called Golden Triangle, epicenter of both production and trafficking of marijuana and opium poppy since the 1930s. Operations...
Topics: Peacebuilding, Policy
Authors: Michael Cooper, Paul Perrin
Pulte Institute, May 2021
This policy brief was developed to assist decision-making in the field of international development on when and how to best utilize data science methods. It is meant to assist all levels of decision-making (from the field to the boardroom) as well as development actors...
Topics: Business & Economics
Authors: Elizabeth Sperber, Gwyneth McClendon, O'Brien Kaaba
Kellogg Institute, April 2021
A significant literature suggests that religious conviction can drive political participation, perhaps because religious people internalize a moral obligation to act toward the common good and/or because religious conviction gives people a sense that their actions will make a difference. This paper presents findings...
Topics: Culture & Society, Religion
