Abstract This report contains a recap of the presentations given by the speakers at the 'first Europe-Latin America Dialogue on Promotion of Energy Efficiency', held in Brussels from 28 to 30 October 1998. The event was organized within the framework of the 'promotion of Energy Efficiency in Latin America' Project, which is cofinanced by ECLAC, through its Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division, and the SYNERGY Programme of the European Commission's XVII Directorate-General of Energy. The project is under the direction of Fernando Sánchez Albavera, ECLAC Regiona…
Introduction Barriers to Latin American and Caribbean Exports in the US Market, 1998-1999 is the sixth report released yearly by ECLAC Washington. Its aim is to provide information on trade inhibiting measures that Latin American and Caribbean exports encounter in the United States, updating that contained in previous reports. The classification of trade inhibiting measures follows that used by the US Trade Representative's yearly publication National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers. Out of this classification, the report focuses on those three of greatest relevan…
Abstract Concentration in liner shipping means that relatively larger shipping companies are increasing their market share at the expense of the remaining smaller players. Although this process is not new, it has gained strength and is particularly affecting ports and shipping services in developing regions. Because trade is growing as a proportion of world GDP, governments and international organizations attach an increasing priority to improving ports and shipping services. This leads to deregulation, which, together with technological advances, increases the incentives for shipping companie…
Abstract During the course of 1997 and 1998, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) carried out the project Comparative study of development strategies of selected East-Asian and Latin American countries with special reference to trade and industrial policies under the new international trading system . The project was designed to extract from the experiences of both regions the essence of the appropriate public policy in industrial and trade development and to identify its new role and available instruments, in conformity with the post-Uruguay Round trade reg…
La presente edición del Panorama de la inserción internacional de América Latina y el Caribe persigue el doble objetivo de informar a los gobiernos de la región sobre las tendencias de la economía y del comercio internacionales, que pueden incidir en sus estrategias de desarrollo económico, y de contribuir al intercambio de información sobre los instrumentos de política comercial utilizados por los países latinoamericanos y caribeños en el período comprendido entre enero de 1996 y julio-agosto de 1997. Esta segunda edición, correspondiente a 1997, está dividida en cuatro partes. En la primera…
Among the East and Southeast Asian economies often regarded as the most successful showcases, the People's Republic of China (PRC); occupies an outstanding place. This economy has one of the fastest growing GNPs in the world, and its outward orientation in the post-Mao Zedong era has made the country a significant world trade partner, so that the question of whether or not the economy stays on its sustained growth path will affect the welfare of the world economy in its entirety, including Latin America. The deepening of the ongoing economic reforms, coupled with prudent macro policies, s…
The Caribbean Meeting of Experts on Implementation of the SIDS Programme of Action,
held at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 17-19 May 1995 was convened
to review progress towards implementation of the SIDS Programme of Action (SIDS-POA), to
discuss constraints on the effective implementation of the Programme and to agree on priority areas
for action.
It was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean/Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (ECLAC/CDCC), in collaboration
with the United Nations Development Programme’s Special Unit …
Examina la importancia del sector agrícola para la economía de los países de América Latina y el Caribe; analiza el papel que cumple el comercio exterior en la producción agropecuaria regional; traza un panorama de la experiencia adquirida en las negociaciones internacionales en materia agrícola, y de las expectativas que los países latinoamericanos pueden tener del resultado de la Ronda Uruguay que tiene lugar en el marco del GATT.…
Examina la importancia del sector agrícola para la economía de los países de América Latina y el Caribe; analiza el papel que cumple el comercio exterior en la producción agropecuaria regional; traza un panorama de la experiencia adquirida en las negociaciones internacionales en materia agrícola, y de las expectativas que los países latinoamericanos pueden tener del resultado de la Ronda Uruguay que tiene lugar en el marco del GATT.…
28 - 29 March 2012
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Event (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
El seminario tuvo como objetivo presentar y discutir las principales conclusiones de los estudios sobre las experiencias de Cooperación en los Acuerdos de Asociación entre países de la región y la Unión Europea. Concretamente, se compartieron dos trabajos recientes que analizan la experiencia de Chile y México en el marco de los únicos acuerdos de asociación en vigencia. A partir de éstos, se abrió el debate para facilitar posibles lecciones para la futura implementación del Acuerdo que recientemente Centroamérica concluyó con la UE.…
26 June 2015, 05:30 - 15:00
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Event (Monitoring committee)
“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)…
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