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This document analyses fiscal trends and policies for Caribbean countries. It is divided into six parts. Following the introduction, the second...
This paper examines the progress in the implementation of the CSME and what this has meant for the core (trade, investment, etc.); and functional...
Brazil's electoral outlook and the external backdrop were the main drivers of Latin American credits in the third quarter of 2002, thus the...
This paper provides an overview of the structure and performance of the Caribbean tourism sector. It evaluates the role of policies and strategies...
Introduction The study of trade and integration (LC/CAR/G.681) between the Netherlands Antilles and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was...
In the third quarter of 2003, investors continued to favor riskier assets buoyed by abundant global liquidity, low interest rates in mature...
Access to Latin American and Caribbean Exports in the United States market, 2001-2002 is the eighth annual report released by the ECLAC Washington...
This document provides an overview of the most relevant developments in United States trade policy relating to Latin America and the Caribbean in...
Information technologies (ITs) and supply chain management (SCM) are increasingly considered as indispensable tools of competitiveness especially...
The liberalization of Maritime Transport is one important element to increase the export competitiveness of a country. In fact, studies remark...
(*) This document was prepared by André A. Hofman of the Economic Projections Center of the Statistics Division, and Heriberto Tapia research...
Latin America has a long history of political violence that include civil wars; guerrilla movements, military intervention, coup d'état,...
La presente edición del Estudio económico de América Latina y el Caribe, publicación anual que aparece cada año desde 1948, consta de tres partes...
From November 2001 to April 2003, the International
Monetary Fund grappled with a radical proposal, the
Sovereign Debt Restructuring...
This article puts forth a hypothesis and a challenge.
The hypothesis: structural change in the international economy and in the management...
Social protection systems have to cope with large
discrepancies between the financing needed to cover demand
and the resources...
Stable development and financing of the social protection
system, one of the priorities of fiscal policy in Chile over
recent years,...
This article sets out to describe the main features of the new
farm legislation in the United States, assess the extent to
which it...
This article examines the long-run relationship between
export performance and economic growth in three Central
American countries...