An AS/COA panel featuring economists from a leading Argentine think tank outlined the country's growth prospects, embattled energy market, and public spending.

Colombia is thought to host significant but undeveloped copper reserves, attracting interest from Chile’s national copper company, which hopes to make its first international investment there.

With Brazil poised to become one of the world’s top petroleum producers, a sugar-production slump and rising biofuel prices have left its ethanol industry is in an uphill battle against corn-based imports and an ever-growing gas sector.

This Energy Action Group working paper explores Chile’s efforts to achieve the energy security it needs to promote continued economic growth. Recommendations are based in part on a high-level meeting with Chile's energy minister.

"Recent Iranian saber rattling about closing the Strait of Hormuz is yet another reason for the U.S. to look north to Canada for oil imports," writes AS/COA's Jason Marczak for World Politics Review.

With the Obama administration knocking back the application for the Keystone pipeline from Canada to the United States, Canadian leaders are looking to Asian markets to expand energy exports.

AS/COA held a panel discussion on the impact of high and volatile food prices on the poor, the role of political commitment to ending hunger, and the challenges and opportunities for income growth in the agriculture sector.