CEPAL Review no.81

CEPAL Review no.81

Preliminary Economic Overview of Caribbean Economies

Indicadores sociales básicos de la subregión norte de América Latina y el Caribe: edición 2003

Impact of new technologies on the development process in the Caribbean region

Discusses the challenges facing key sectors in the Caribbean region, paying particular attention to agriculture, tourism, nutrition and health, manufacturing, energy, and the eco-system. Explores how the new technologies might be used in each sector to impact the development process.…

Building an information society: a Latin American and Caribbean perspective

Abstract New technological options that permit the use of digital systems to create and disseminate information around the world are paving the way for new means of organizing society and economic production and are gradually giving rise to a meta-paradigm that has come to be referred to as the Information Society. Viewed from the perspective of developing countries, the question of how to employ this emerging paradigm to achieve broader development goals and to integrate them more fully into the global Information Society is an issue of the utmost importance on the development agenda…

Institutional requirements for market-led development in Latin America

Abstract This paper seeks to provide a systematized framework for the main ideas that have been developed by ECLAC concerning the effects that market-led reforms have had on labour, financial and technology markets. In order to explore these questions further, a research project has been undertaken by ECLAC with the sponsorship of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The project deals with the institutional requirements for properly functioning financial, technology and labour markets. Particular attention is being devoted to the institutional forces affecting market access by tr…