Executive Summary
One of the major challenges facing developing countries is to attain high levels of competitiveness in all areas in order to effect the necessary transformation of their production structures. Technological development and innovation are identified as key factors in the attempt to meet this challenge. In many ways technology, in the broadest sense, has become a sine qua non for attaining and
maintaining competitiveness, which is itself considered one of the imperatives of successful industrial development. Similarly, in the Caribbean, science and technology are identified as …
This paper analyses the importance to the Latin American countries of the main dispute resolution facilities and conventions applicable to international trade and investment, of which they are the inseparable complement. The spectacular growth in the disputes which these facilities deal with reflects the impact that international trade and investment are now having on economic development. Despite international progress, however, most of the countries have yet to update their domestic legislation, so that this remains a pending task. Accession to the conventions referred to entails numerous re…
Este trabajo analiza la importancia que revisten para los países
de América Latina los principales mecanismos y convenciones
de solución de controversias sobre comercio e inversiones internacionales,
que son el complemento inseparable de estos
últimos. El aumento espectacular de las controversias que administran
estos mecanismos refleja el impacto que el comercio
y las inversiones internacionales hoy tienen en el desarrollo
económico. Sin embargo, a pesar del progreso en el plano internacional,
la mayoría de los países todavía no han modernizado
sus legislaciones internas, con lo cual esta tar…
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