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Covid-19 in Latin America: Politics, Economics, and Public Health Impacts

July 17, 2021

3:00 pm

Register at: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DmadXQe4QsidxC_MITCu3g

This plenary panel will discuss the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in the region. It features scholars working on issues like variation in policies to face the pandemic, the impact of the former and latter on economic inequality, poverty, unemployment, the gender gap, access to vaccines, among others.

Chair: Wendy Hunter, University of Texas at Austin
Merike Blofield, German Institute for Global and Area Studies
Magdalena Gil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Nora Lustig, Tulane University
Ken Shadlen, London School of Economics

The final Keynote Panel of the 7th Annual REPAL (Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina), held virtually at Cornell University 7/15-17/2021.

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Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies