Foreword The 1990s were unquestionably a time of transition and reorientation in several aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean's economic, social and political development. As in any period with these characteristics, the effects of long-standing processes mingled and interacted with incipient change. When the decade ended, ECLAC wished to contribute to the evaluation of the main events that marked the consolidation of reform in the region, recognizing of course that the speed of progress varied from country to country and from sector to sector. This publication offers an analysis of…
The Andean countries, a region with abundance of natural resources and other valuable assets, exhibit a variety of governance problems that hinder its potential for social peace, stability and economic prosperity. Their empirical governance record, based on historical and recent data, although varies from country to country has been characterized by political instability, considerable frequency of constitutional reforms, presidential crisis, volatility of democratic institutions and violence. In turn, the empirical evidence on quality of institutions put the Andean region in a relatively modes…
Se ha dicho que el pensamiento latinoamericano es la historia de los intentos por armonizar modernización e identidad. Desde su origen la CEPAL ha buscado participar en esta empresa al plantear, simultáneamente con la especificidad de las situaciones regionales, la necesidad de una transformación productiva con equidad social y, más recientemente, con sostenibilidad ambiental. La globalización es el contexto en que hoy se plantea esta tarea y el presente libro se inscribe en dicha trayectoria. Se trata, pues, de un análisis crítico de las posibilidades que ofrece la globalización al mun…
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