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Trade and industrial policies: past performance and future prospects

21 Jul 1998 | Publication

Abstract During the course of 1997 and 1998, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) carried out the project Comparative study of development strategies of selected East-Asian and Latin American countries with special reference to trade and industrial policies under the new international trading system . The project was designed to extract from the experiences of both regions the essence of the appropriate public policy in industrial and trade development and to identify its new role and available instruments, in conformity with the post-Uruguay Round trade reg…

Intra-CDCC trade in the 1990s

15 Jul 1998 | Publication

Summary Growth in world trade has consistently outstripped growth in world output in recent years. This paper analyses the evolution of trade flows among member countries of the Caribbean Development and Co-operation Committee (CDCC); and highlights recent developments in the individual trade policies of the countries. Analyses are conducted at the level of OECS, CARICOM, and non-CARICOM CDCC countries. The paper concludes that intra-CDCC trade remained limited compared to CDCC member countries trade with the rest of the world.…

Regional integration in Latin America, globalization and South-South trade

9 Jul 1998 | Publication

Summary The first section sets out the historical background to the features of regional integration in Latin America between 1960 and 1990. The integration style of this region reflected the protected development models of the period, and developed slowly during the years 1960-1980. The period 1980-1990, known as the lost decade in Latin America, is then examined, bringing to light on the one hand the retreat of economic integration in the region and on the other the beginnings of a process of political democratization which was to set the stage for renewed progress towards integration …

La educación de las mujeres: de la marginalidad a la coeducación: propuestas para una metodología de cambio educativo = The education of women: from marginality to coeducation: proposals for a methodology to achieve educational change

1 Jul 1998 | Publication

La importancia de la educación para el desarrollo individual y colectivo ha sido puesta de relieve desde los años sesenta, en que la teoría del capital humano destacó el hecho de que la inversión educativa es la más rentable de las inversiones, en términos estrictamente económicos, y tanto para la sociedad como para los individuos. Desde entonces, el valor de la educación ha seguido en alza: para todos los grupos humanos que se encuentran en situación de marginación, la educación ha constituido el mecanismo central de cambio de su situación, el que confiere a la vez cualificación para desarrol…

The urban female labour market in Latin America: the myth and the reality

1 Jul 1998 | Publication

Latin America has partly overcome the short-term adjustment stage following the external debt crisis and is now in a stage of restructuring marked by opening up to external markets. These changes, which have included the reorganization of production processes, with the incorporation of new technologies, have altered the composition of the labour market and had a strong impact on Women's labour participation. One of the most noticeable effects has been what is known as the 'feminization of the labour force' . The broad structural trends, at times magnified by the crisis and adjus…

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