Boosting US-Japan Cooperation with Latin America in Critical and Frontier Sectors
Collaborations between the United States and Japan are the best option for meeting the infrastructure needs of Latin America and the Caribbean and offering alternatives to Chinese financing. Those are the findings of a new Wilson Center report by former fellow Margaret Myers. In other regions, the United States and Japan have launched partnerships that offer models for potential cooperation in the Americas, where chronically inadequate public works spending has reduced economic competitiveness.
About the Author
Margaret Myers
Director, Asia and Latin America Program, Inter-American Dialogue
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
