This document represents a contribution made by the Tripartite Committee comprising the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to the fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas Initiative, in Santo Domingo, on 5 October 2011. This initiative for promoting growth and prosperity provides a forum for countries to learn from each other's experience and for them to share lessons learned and best practices as they seek to put broader opportunities withi…
El presente documento es una contribución del Comité Tripartito a la cuarta Reunión Ministerial de la iniciativa Caminos a la Prosperidad en las Américas, que se realizará en la ciudad de Santo Domingo, el 5 de octubre de 2011. El objetivo de este documento es poner al servicio de los países participantes de Caminos a la Prosperidad en las Américas un conjunto de experiencias exitosas en los temas relacionados con la iniciativa y su capacidad para mejorar las condiciones de vida de los habitantes de la región. El eje de la información proporcionada en este documento son las pequeñas y medianas…
This book is the final report of the ECLAC-IDRC project Observatory for the Information Society in Latin American and the Caribbean OSILAC, which aims at understanding the dynamics of the ICT evolution and revolution and producing evidence on its potential to promote socio-economic development. As such, microdata analysis drawn from National Household Surveys and National Innovation Surveys in Latin America were used in the framework of the project in the attempt to reach those objectives. Both statistical information sources provide attractive potentialities in order to investigate not only d…
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