An on-line survey of experts was conducted to solicit their views on policy priorities in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Caribbean. The experts considered the goal
to “promote teacher training in the use of ICTs in the classroom” to be the highest priority, followed by goals to “reduce the cost of broadband services” and “promote the use of ICT in emergency and
disaster prevention, preparedness and response.” Goals in the areas of cybercrime, e-commerce, egovernment, universal service funds, consumer
protection, and on-line privacy rounded out the top 10.
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This report examines the usage of digital currency technology in the Caribbean subregion with a view to drawing attention to the opportunities and risks associated with this new phenomenon. It discusses the broader context of an emerging activity at the global level and considers how this technology could address subregional deficiencies in the electronic payment infrastructure.
The report also discusses mobile money solutions, and the relationship of that technology to digital currency.…
This study investigates the extent to which the digital boom has had repercussions on productive activity, in terms of both manufacturing (ict goods) and services (ict services), in addition to its potential ramifications in the rest of the Mexican economy. Input-output matrices are used and compared to those of Brazil and the United States. Mexico has fallen behind, particularly in the production of ict goods, and the productive chains of this activity have weakened. The ict services sector offers much greater potential than has been exploited thus far, with the advantage that it involves com…
En este estudio se investiga hasta qué punto el auge digital ha repercutido en la actividad
productiva, la manufactura (bienes tic) y los servicios tic, además de sus potenciales
ramificaciones en el resto de la economía mexicana. Se utilizan las matrices de insumoproducto
(mip) y se hace referencia a las del Brasil y los Estados Unidos de América.
México se ha rezagado, especialmente en la producción de bienes tic, y las cadenas
productivas de esta actividad se han debilitado. El sector de servicios tic ofrece un
potencial mucho mayor que el aprovechado hasta ahora, con la ventaja de incorpor…
“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…
(13 de abril, 2015) América Latina mantuvo un bajo nivel de inversión entre 1980 y 2012 en comparación con otras regiones y países que han reducido en forma significativa la brecha de PIB per cápita en relación a las naciones desarrolladas, según un estudio publicado en Revista CEPAL N⁰ 115, disponible desde hoy en internet.
En la nueva edición de la principal publicación académica de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), los economistas del organismo de las Naciones Unidas Sandra Manuelito y Luis Felipe Jiménez revisan la evolución de la inversión y sus componentes as…