This document analyses the origins and consequences of debt accumulation in the Caribbean. The focus is placed on Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...
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This year’s edition of the Economic Survey of Latin
America and the Caribbean is the fifty-eighth in the
series. It is divided into...
As Latin America is currently living a period (2004-2006) of accelerated economic growth led by booming commodity prices, it is a good time to...
Summary An economic growth rate of 5.3% is estimated for 2006, which means that the Latin American and Caribbean region will mark a third...
The inadequacies of social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean reveal a clear need for more active fiscal policies in this area....
The similarities of competition provisions in integration and other intraregional agreements and the dissemination of this information could serve...
This paper looks at the two successive development paradigms that prevailed in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century,...
This paper examines the key role of infrastructure in Andean Community trade patterns, using three gravity models. The first identifies the...
Setting out from a survey of the theoretical postulates of social capital, the present paper analyses the utility and scope of this approach for...
Civil society organizations are often seen as repositories of social capital, and their existence is taken as evidence that the dilemma of...
One issue in the debate about the workings of the labour market is its degree of flexibility. In the case of Chile, the Asian crisis of late 1997...
Chilean retail firms have succeeded in developing solid competitive advantages based on a business model that captures synergies from the joint...
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);, conducted a survey of Caribbean countries aimed at documenting and...