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Peru and Ecuador: Elections and Democracy in the Andes

Amidst surging rates of Covid-19 infections and sharp economic contractions, citizens in Peru and Ecuador went to the polls on 11 April 2021 in presidential and legislative elections. Please join the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program and International IDEA on Monday, 9 April 2021, from 15:00 – 16:30 EST to discuss the latest electoral results in Ecuador and Peru and what they may signal about democratic governance in the region more broadly. In Ecuador’s second round presidential election, conservative banker Guillermo Lasso defied predictions to win 52.4 per cent of the vote. He triumphed over Andrés Arauz, supported by former president Rafael Correa. In Peru’s first round presidential election, a candidate who had barely registered in the polls took first place:  leftist candidate Pedro Castillo led the pack of 18 candidates with scarcely 17 per cent of the vote. He will face a run-off on 6 June against former lawmaker Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former pres

Building a 21st-Century Social Security Through Cell Phones

Building a 21st-Century Social Security Through Cell Phones Authors: Mikel A. Alcázar The reality of workers around the world has changed radically since the first social security schemes were developed in the 19th century. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where people now live much longer but typically save little for retirement, adapting pension systems to the current social, economic and demographic conditions is likely to become one of the greatest challenges countries will face in the future. “Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most unequal regions of the world. It’s also one of the regions that will age most rapidly. This is why we have to find new solutions to protect the most economically vulnerable. The convergence between new technologies and behavioral economics opens a potential avenue to deal with this social debt, which will become an urgent problem in coming years,” says Marcelo Cabrol, manager of the Social Sector at the Inter-American Dev

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