LSE Review of Books blog post: Launch of three-part podcast series on Brazil
LSE Review of Books have released the first episode of a three-part podcast series on Brazil. The first part looks at uncovering issues in Rio de Janeiro and features LSE and Brazilian authors...
View ArticleErasmus study-abroad expanded to Latin America
Good news for students and academics in Latin America as Reuters reports that the European Union has announced that its Erasmus study-abroad programme will be extended to Latin America. The region has...
View ArticleForbes highlights the six stories to watch in Latin America – part one
In a recent article, Forbes highlights some of the stories about Latin America likely to make the headlines this year. Despite the reputation of the region continuously growing in global markets,...
View ArticleLSE Mexico Week, co-sponsored by LSE Enterprise, starts 11 March 2014
The 15th annual LSE Mexico Week begins on 11 March bringing together LSE staff, students and alumni, Mexican public figures and artists to talk about politics and policies in Mexico. Hosted by LSE’s...
View ArticleLSE Review of Books blog post: Political Power and Women’s Representation in...
Schwindt-Bayer’s grasp and command of the existing literature is extensive, and the text is impeccably researched. Schwindt-Bayer seeks to bring sometimes competing earlier explanations together, and...
View ArticleForbes highlights the six stories to watch in Latin America – part two
Last month we summarised part of an article in Forbes highlighting some of the stories about Latin America likely to make the headlines this year. Here is part two; a summary of the second set of...
View ArticleFor Bogotá’s desplazados, living in a high-risk zone is a very mixed blessing...
It is becoming increasingly clear that without a bold strategy for fulfilling everyone’s constitutional right to vivienda digna (“decent housing”), risk governance divides the urban population into...
View ArticleLSE Global Pensions Programme, July 2014
We invite you to experience a unique programme of research-led teaching from internationally renowned academics and top practitioners/policy specialists with extensive expertise in pensions research...
View ArticleEnhancing Productivity in Latin America: from subsistence to transformational...
With a high rate of entrepreneurship, Latin America should be a hub for innovation. However, 75% of the region’s entrepreneurs represent enterprises with less than five employees. These...
View ArticleGlobal Pensions Programme 2014 – Nicholas Barr and Solange Bernstein...
For four days in July, Miami will be the world capital of pensions from the academic point of view.
View ArticleLSE Executive LLM – register for this September
LSE’s Executive LLM programme provides postgraduate education of an exceptional standard. It offers modules in a broad range of fields including arbitration, human rights and international law, and...
View ArticleIn the news: Professor Carmelo Mesa, speaker at the Global Pensions Programme
Carmelo Mesa is considered an expert on pensions with a particular focus on Latin America. Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, his career is...
View ArticleWelcome to the ESAN students – the Markets in the Global Economy programme...
The programme is of huge significance because we’re able to share some of the interesting insights into financial markets and the consequences of the financial crisis that we had in 2008, and what has...
View ArticleGlobal Pensions Programme: Interview with Dr Diego Valero
In advance of the Global Pensions Programme hosted in Miami this July, we caught up with one of the speakers, Dr Diego Valero. Dr Valero holds a PhD in Economics and is a professor at the University...
View ArticleVoting for peace: a nation divided
On 25 May, Colombians voted in the presidential elections yet no president was elected.
View ArticleLSE welcomes EGAP students from Mexico
Next week, LSE will host a week long study programme for 15 students from the Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy (EGAP) at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher...
View ArticleLSE Global Pensions Programme: More Speakers Confirmed
The Global Pensions Programme is designed for professionals in the pensions industry and comprises a series of lectures and workshops from world-renowned academics and experts.
View ArticleEnding the Drug Wars – a report by the Expert Group on the Economics of Drug...
The LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy was convened to produce the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international drug control strategy ever conducted. The...
View ArticleIn the news: Solange Bernstein – Chile can learn from the UK pensions reforms
Dr Solange Bernstein, a speaker at the LSE Global Pensions Programme in July 2014, has said that Chile is examining pensions systems in both the UK and Australia with the aim of implementing reforms to...
View ArticleBook launch: Diana Kennedy – My Mexico
Diana Kennedy – known as the ‘Julia Child of Mexican cooking’ – has recently released an updated edition of her most personal book, My Mexico. Originally published in 1998, it contains more than 300...
View ArticleThe Global Economy Study Tour: a big hello to ESDEN students
This week, LSE Custom Programmes welcomes 18 MBA students from ESDEN Business School on the inaugural Global Economy Study Tour.
View ArticleLSE Review of Books – Falling Inequality in Latin America, Giovanni Cornia (ed.)
[E]ven the greatly unequal Latin American countries saw a process of inequality reduction since the late 1990s that took scholars off guard – from 2000 to 2010 the Gini coefficient declined in 13 of 17...
View ArticleWelcome to ITAM students 2014!
We are excited to welcome students from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) to the London School of Economics and Political Science for the second International Political Economy Study Tour.
View ArticleIn the news: LSE Global Pensions Programme
Writing in Diario Las Américas, Pablo Padro calls for the need to urgently rethink current approaches to pensions, warning of the dangers of dogmatic advice from the World Bank, given twenty years ago....
View ArticleReport: LSE’s Global Pensions Programme 2014
The group we had from so many Latin American and other countries meant we had great questions for the speakers, and a chance for substantial exchange of perspectives and challenges in the sector.
View ArticleITAM Students – Experiences of studying in London
Over 40 students from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) have undertaken a three-week programme at LSE – the International Political Economy Study Tour. We caught up with the students...
View ArticleWelcome to the EGADE students from Tech de Monterrey
The students are on a five-day study programme on global financial issues.
View ArticleA vision of city life
Chilean Ministers joined LSE Cities academics for an international public conference, bringing together over a thousand attendees from the private and public sectors to agree the principles for...
View ArticleChile: building bridges in the international arena – an LSE public lecture
Dr Heraldo Muñoz, Chile's Minister of Foreign Affairs, will give a free LSE public lecture on Thursday 30 April 2015, from 6.30-8pm.
View ArticleUrban Futures Masterclass: Santiago de Chile Regional Government
Author: Mar Lopez Torro Last week we had a one-week programme with 22 participants from the regional government of different boroughs of Santiago de Chile and from Asociación de Directores de Obra....
View ArticleLSE Global Pensions Programme, July 2015
The Global Pensions Programme draws together world-class speakers from Europe and the Americas to address major themes in the industry – pension systems, regulation, asset management and institutional...
View ArticleMarkets in the Global Economy International Study Visit, ESAN
This ‘Markets in the Global Economy International Study Visit’ programme featured academics from LSE Enterprise and the Departments of Management and International Relations.
View ArticleLSE Global Pensions Programme – All speakers confirmed
LSE Enterprise is happy to announce that all the speakers are confirmed for the third Global Pensions Programme, in Cancún.
View ArticleGlobal Economy Study Tour: ESDEN Business School
Last week we had a one-week programme with 45 participants from ESDEN Business School in Spain.
View ArticlePublic-Private Partnerships in Brazil
LSE Enterprise worked with the British Embassy Brasilia to help improve the quality, efficiency and transparency of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Brazil.
View ArticleFinancial Markets and Global Economy International Study Visit, ITAM
This ‘Financial Markets and Global Economy International Study Visit’ featured academics from the Departments of International Relations, Management, LSE Enterprise and Finance.
View ArticleLSE Global Pensions Programme opens in Cancún
Carlos Ramirez, President of CONSAR, highlighted the major demographic challenges faced in Mexico for pension funds, and the necessity of providing citizens with choice – but crucially a limited choice...
View ArticleThe LSE Global Pensions Programme 2015
Photos from the LSE Global Pensions Programme 2015
View ArticleITAM – International Political Economy Study Tour
Over 40 students from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) have undertaken the third three-week International Political Economy Study Tour at LSE.
View ArticleInternational Study Programme for the Universidad de los Andes
Thirty-four participants from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia spent a week at LSE to expand their knowledge of global financial markets, communicating with investors, international marketing...
View ArticleTecnológico de Monterrey students at LSE Enterprise
Twenty EGADE Business School students have completed their Finance and Global Economy Study visit at LSE, held for the second year. The participants from Mexico came for a one-week programme in which...
View ArticleBrazil’s economic woes
Carlos Nascimento of LSE Enterprise is featured on Share Radio, discussing Brazil's economic woes
View ArticleGlobal economy, international relations and geopolitics
It was a pleasure to welcome the Presidentes group from the Universidad de los Andes Colombia last week. The 13 participants attended a one-week programme to expand their knowledge of global economy,...
View ArticleESAN University – Second visit of the year
A new group from ESAN University, Peru, arrived at LSE this month for a Markets in the Global Economy International Study Visit.
View ArticleUniversidad Adolfo Ibáñez – Third cohort at LSE
The Chilean university, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, sent its Executive MBA students to LSE for a third year. During the week-long customised programme, the 57 participants attended lectures on lessons...
View ArticleLSE talk in Bogotá
LSE recently paid a return visit to the Universidad, with over 60 CEOs and Presidents attending at the Gun Club in Bogotá.
View ArticleToo much choice? Making pensions decisions
Too much choice? LSE pensions expert Professor Nicholas Barr is featured in El Mundo
View ArticleHow can we solve the global pensions challenge?
Adam Austerfield of LSE Enterprise and the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain explores the issues facing current pension models. The LSE Global Pensions Programme 2016 will be held in Rio de Janeiro,...
View ArticleThe LSE Global Pensions Programme is now underway
Tuesday 5 July marked the start of the fourth edition of the LSE Global Pensions Programme (GPP), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Adam Austerfield, Director of Global Markets at LSE Enterprise, introduced...
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