Outside voices: Institutionalizing APEP as a ‘start’ toward tapping Latin America’s potential

The U.S. can bolster the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity -- and its relationship with Latin America as a whole -- by creating an APEP secretariat and revamping the lending practices of U.S. development finance institutions, according to Shannon O’Neil of the Council on Foreign Relations. Writing in Foreign Affairs , this week, O’Neil -- the vice president, deputy director of studies and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies at CFR -- outlines several recommendations for...