This report explores the policy choices and constraints Uruguay's policy makers confront as they adapt to the challenges of the current global crisis. Policy options such as a free trade agreement with the United States, reforms to the MERCOSUR customs union, and other trade policy alternatives are debated. In addition, experts analyze the distributional consequences of Uruguayan trade policy choices, and thus the political feasibility of these various options.
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José Raúl Perales
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Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
