2020 Top Think Tanks in Central and South America

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5 November 2021
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The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world. TTCSP produces the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index that ranks the world’s leading think tanks in a number of categories. This list contains leading institutions in Central and South America, including the Caribbean, which were included in the 2020 Index.


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Centro de Estudios Públicos (Center of Public Studies) -CEP- is a private non partisan non profit academic foundation. It is engaged in cultivating, analyzing, and disseminating the values and principles …


FEDESARROLLO is a non-governmental organization that acts as an independent think tank and promotes debate on topics of general interest in order to contribute to the design, monitoring, and improvement …


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CIPPEC is an independent nonprofit organization that works on better building public policies. It promotes policies to make Argentina more developed, more equal, with the same opportunities for all and …


The Asociación de Investigación y Estudios Sociales (ASIES) is a private, non-profit think tank. ASIES mission is to contribute to strengthening the democratic rule of law and the integral development …


CERES (Center for the Study of Economic and Social Reality) is an independent, non-profit study center specialized in public policy. It is dedicated to economic and social analysis, to the …


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CARI’s proposal consists in deeply studying the main global challenges and the road that Argentina must take in order to face them. For such purpose, major players in the various …


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Institution promoting and defending individual freedom, property rights and the free market in Venezuela.


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The objectives of the Council are the promotion and development of research and teaching of Social Sciences; the strengthening of exchange and cooperation between institutions and researchers from within and …


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Independent, non-partisan, and multidisciplinary, the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) is guided by excellence, ethics, and transparency in the formulation and dissemination of high-quality knowledge on the international scenario …


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The Centre is dedicated to the study of emerging countries, highlighting the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), and is administered by the Institute of International Relations of …