Trade tensions: Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean

Laborde Debucquet, David; and Piñeiro, Valeria. 2019. Trade tensions: Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146003

To better understand the likely impacts for Latin America and the Caribbean of developments in global trade, we modeled a set of four scenarios to see how escalating trade tensions would affect the region’s economies and the potential for a regional response to mitigate possible negative impacts. This article reviews the results of that modeling exercise.