Jun 15, 2016 · The food crisis is the latest manifestation of a collapsing economy that is heaping misery on Venezuela's 31 million residents, who are increasingly unhappy with the way things are going. And the situation is stepping up pressure on President Maduro, with growing anti-government sentiment boosting the opposition’s efforts to pursue a recall ...

Jul 26, 2017 · The current economic and social disorder in Venezuela calls for a re-engagement with the international financial institutions that would help to restore normal market mechanisms in its economy. While ideologically repugnant to the current leadership, a pragmatic approach could unlock billions of dollars in aid and debt relief for a nation in chaos.

Apr 12, 2018 · Financial collapse and hyperinflation make Venezuela an economic disaster zone. The crisis is no longer confined to one nation: refugees and migrants are streaming into neighbouring countries. Epidemics and violent crime are spilling over borders, endangering Colombia’s fragile peace process in frontier regions.

Aug 7, 2017 · The heady days of 2001 – when Venezuela was the richest country on the continent – are long gone. The economy shrank by 18.6% last year. In 2017, it’s 35% smaller than it was in 2013, at least in terms of GDP, and 40% lower in GDP-per-capita terms.

Jul 31, 2017 · Put another way, Venezuela’s economic catastrophe dwarfs any in the history of the US, Western Europe, or the rest of Latin America. And yet these numbers grossly understate the magnitude of the collapse, as ongoing work with Miguel Angel Santos, Ricardo Villasmil, Douglas Barrios, Frank Muci, and Jose Ramón Morales at Harvard’s Center for ...

Aug 15, 2018 · The most serious consequences of the health crisis are a dismantled primary care system and a lack of policies for disease prevention. Governance in Venezuela is decentralized and each level of power has a basic role and clear competencies with …

Sep 12, 2017 · Today, Venezuela has one of the poorest major economies in Latin America – and as the current crisis rides itself out, the IMF foresees it getting far worse. By 2022, the organization predicts Venezuela’s GDP per capita (PPP) will be just $12,210, which would be a massive economic setback – the Venezuelan economy would be even poorer than ...

Nov 24, 2017 · However, the political and economic crisis in Venezuela makes it difficult to study the glacier. In the past, studies have shown how rapid glacier retreat affects the water cycle in glacier-dependent basins, which changes water regulation and availability. Thus, the disappearance of the Humboldt glacier will impact local communities as run-off ...

Jan 31, 2019 · The advantages of Lula’s socio-economic policy counterbalance its disadvantages, it was under him that Brazil’s oil wealth was transformed into growing global influence. And with Chavistas in power, Venezuela, the richest country in terms of oil deposits, lies in economic chaos. It is a fact of life, and we are not asking who is to blame.

Jan 14, 2019 · Women fleeing Venezuela’s desperate infant mortality situation are crossing into countries to give birth. In the state of Roraima, Brazil, four out of 10 pregnancies are to Venezuelan mothers, causing the birth rate to jump from the annual average 8,000 before the crisis to 12,000 births in 2017.