Latin America and the Caribbean: Natural Resources and the Economic and Financial Risks Management

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue concerning Latin America and the Caribbean focuses on the relationship between global and local risks and the regional economy and finance.

As a socially and economically complex region, it shows different economic and international trade patterns among the different countries and territories. However, they share the following characteristics: economic growth and international trade being highly dependent on commodities; economic, social, and institutional structural vulnerabilities; and a lack of sustainable resilience to cope with increasing and more diversified risks. Therefore, the public and business sectors in Latin American and Caribbean countries must apply new and updated risk assessment and management practices, such as multidimensional theoretical approaches, data-driven strategy and policy analysis, and innovative quantitative and qualitative tools.

In this regard, we welcome original theoretical and empirical papers on topics such as the changing geopolitical and geoeconomic framework and regional economic and financial risks; natural resource management in a riskier world; economic, social, and political vulnerabilities and resilience based on international production and trade patterns; global and regional value chain management opportunities, strategies, and economic and financial risks; regional and local financial markets, institutions, and uncertainty; the opportunities, challenges, and economic and financial risks of cutting-edge technologies for the region; the political economy of regional economic and financial risks; the economic and social risks challenges of natural disasters and climate change; the economics and financial risks of the energy transition and the bioeconomy; public policy and risk management capacity building; economic and financial risks management in unstable political and security environments; and the role of non-governmental and international institutions in economic and financial risk assessment, management, and governance.

Dr. Juan Miguel Massot
Prof. Dr. Wonho Kim
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Sili
Guest Editors

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• economic and financial risks
• global risk
• commodities
• climate change
• vulnerability
• resilience
• global value chains