Abstract This document provides an overview of trade relations between Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and explores the possibilities for expanding the modalities of economic relations between the two regions. The analysis covers 12 countries in Asia and Oceania and 11 members of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA). Interregional cooperation in trade and investment has been on the agendas of countries in both regions for some time. It is often expressed that the present economic relations between the two regions do not reflect the potential for interregional trade and inve…
Introducción Después de experimentar una de las hiperinflaciones más severas del mundo moderno durante 1988-1990, desde agosto de 1990 el Perú se embarcó en un drástico programa de estabilización y en un agresivo proceso de reformas estructurales. El presente documento tiene por objetivo realizar un balance del proceso de reformas realizados, discutir el grado de profundidad, su consistencia y la complementariedad de las mismas, la agenda pendiente y evaluar el impacto que han tenido sobre crecimiento, empleo y pobreza en el Perú hasta el momento y cuales se esperan sean los resultados futuros…
Summary Following a period of economic growth, political stability and poverty reduction spanning two decades (1960-1979), Costa Rica experienced at the beginning of the 1980´s the worst recession in its most recent history. In 1981 and 1982 gross domestic product (GDP) fell by -2.3% and -7.3%. Analysts pinpoint to short term economic factors and long run structural problems as the main causes of the recession. Short term economic factors comprise the end of the coffee price bonanza and the second oil shock. Long run structural factors are rooted in the economic imbalances generated b…
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