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The Pacific Alliance from article of The Economist

May 18th 2013, The Economist.

...The Pacific Alliance, as the group calls itself, is “the most exciting thing going on in Latin America today”, according to Felipe Larraín, Chile’s finance minister. Some outsiders think so, too. Costa Rica and Panama want to join; Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, and his Spanish counterpart, Mariano Rajoy, have said they will attend the Cali meeting as observers...

From Wikipedia

The Pacific Alliance (Spanish: Alianza del Pacífico) is a Latin American bloc formally launched on 6 June 2012 in Chile's Paranal Observatory at the organization's fourth summit. It groups Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The four nations of the Pacific Alliance represent about 36% of Latin America GDP, and if counted as a single country they would be the ninth largest economy in the world. According to information from the World Trade Organization (WTO), the countries of the Pacific Alliance together exported about U.S.$ 445 billion in 2010, almost 60% more than Mercosur (the main economic bloc in Latin America) exported in the same year.

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Speaks at Yale SOM - Video

December 3, 2012

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe made his first visit to Yale University on November 7 when he spoke at an event sponsored by Yale SOM's Latino Leadership Association student club.

Uribe, who served as president of Colombia from 2002 to 2010, discussed his administration's efforts to deal with the country's challenging social and economic issues, including poverty, chronic political tensions, and domestic terrorism. He also described his efforts to encourage cooperation between the public and private sectors. Uribe said that his presidential policies promoted social cohesion, security, and the encouragement of private investment that would lead to a more prosperous and stable economy...

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Increases Latin American Resources - Clear Admit

Clear Admit, post of August 20, 2012.

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University is increasing its commitment to Latin America through the creation of an advisory board for the region and expanded scholarship aid for Latin American students, the school announced last week.

The new Latin American Advisory Board will be made up of alumni living and working in Latin America and will collaborate with Tuck to increase recruitment of students from the area, expand career opportunities there and shape Tuck’s programming and curriculum as it relates to Latin America. As part of its effort to bolster Latin American recruitment, Tuck also has more than doubled the dollar amount of scholarships awarded to students from the region.

“Latin America is an important strategic region for Tuck and that commitment is reflected in our admissions process,” Dawna Clarke, Tuck director of admissions, said in a statement. She added that students from the region tend to thrive at Tuck given the importance that is placed on relationships within Latin America, which dovetails with Tuck’s own focus on teamwork, collaboration and community...

Brazil. World Bank: "Achieving world-class education in Brazil : the next agenda" + "Quarterly knowledge report"

www.worldbank.org/en/country/brazil

2011/11/03, "Achieving world-class education in Brazil : the next agenda"

• Official PDF, 190 pages 13.3 mb

Education is improving in Brazil. The average years of education has almost doubled over the last 20 years, as has the proportion of adults who have completed secondary school. Brazil's high school students have improved consistently in math and language performance over the last decade. These gains stem from the federal government's priority attention to education through both reforms and resources over the past 15 years. The progress laid out in this book is impressive and praiseworthy, but Brazil still trails its competitors in several of the ways that matter most...

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2012/04/01, Quarterly Knowledge Report

• Official PDF, 16 pages 1.12 mb

This newsletter includes the following headings: a knowledge legacy, by Makhtar Diop; Sao Paulo city study, by Kenyon, Thomas; impact of shocks and social protection: some reflections from the analysis of Brazil 2008-2009, by Anna Fruttero; turning Rio around, by Mauro Azeredo; the impact of the IOF tax on capital flows, by Fabio Bittar; early child education: making programs work for Brazil's most important generation, by David Evans and ; and in the loop: some of the quarter's noteworthy events.

Samba Management - will Brazil become a new source of inspiration for Western business schools?

MBA50, January 6, 2012, Matt Symonds started a discussion with this in the DeansTalk LinkedIn open group.

Will Brazil become a new source of inspiration for Western business schools? For the past fifteen years, they have mainly looked east. New business schools grew up in such fast-growing countries as China and Singapore, leading...

Inter-American Partnership for Education - Worldfund.org & Darmouth

Worldfund "Why we are different", (Team (Luanne Zurlo video1, bio2), Directors) using education to fight poverty in Latin America

The Inter-American Partnership for Education (IAPE) is a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment  that aims to transform English language instruction in Mexico's most underserved public schools by training, empowering, and supporting a dedicated network of innovative and dynamic English language educators. IAPE is a partnership of Worldfund and Dartmouth College's Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures and is underwritten by Bécalos and Nextel de México. IAPE receives additional generous support from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and from participants' home institutions. IAPE's flagship program, the IAPE Teachers' Collaborative, involves over one hundred hours of pedagogical training at Dartmouth College, followed by three years of mentoring and supporting colleagues in Mexico. Our newest program, the IAPE Intensive English Program, is offered in Mexico and involves eighty hours of intensive English instruction and twenty hours of pedagogical training.