Ian Vásquez is director of the Cato Institute

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's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society

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 and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations

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. Prior to joining the Cato Institute in 1992, Vásquez worked on inter-American issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Caribbean/Latin American Action.

Vásquez received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 and his master's degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University

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Mr. Vásquez is a native of Peru

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Publications

• Peter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 4, no. 2, May 2007.
• Relations with Cuba, prepared by L. Jacobo Rodríguez and Ian Vásquez,
• International Financial Crises and the IMF
• U.S. Policy toward Latin America
• Foreign Aid and Economic Development
• The Central Role of Economic Freedom in Democracy, Issues of Democracy, December 2005.
• The New Approach to Foreign Aid: Is the Enthusiasm Warranted?, Foreign Policy Briefing no. 79, September 17, 2003.
• Reauthorize or Retire the Overseas Private Investment Corporation?, by Ian Vásquez and John Welborn, Foreign Policy Briefing no. 78, September 15, 2003.
• Rethinking the Export-Import Bank, by Aaron Lukas and Ian Vásquez, Trade Briefing Paper no. 15, March 12, 2002.

External links

• http://www.cato.org/people/vasquez.html
• Cato's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity