Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)
Despite the fact that micro, small and medium-sized companies (MSMEs) account for 99% of the industrial fabric and create the majority of jobs, their productivity is extremely low compared with that of large companies. To redress this situation, the region must develop production chains comprising different-sized companies —and especially MSMEs— in order to boost job creation and wages as a way to reduce the heterogeneity of its economies. Further internationalization of these companies, particularly in their exporting activities, contributes to improve productivity and the labor conditions of their workers.
Activities
Opportunities and challenges for MSMEs in Caribbean cross-border e-commerce
The Course is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
News
ECLAC to Launch its Report Panorama of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Cari...
Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs will offer a press conference at the Commission’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico.
ECLAC: The Private Sector is Called Upon to Be an Agent of Change for the Productive Transformation ...
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, led the inauguration of a regional dialogue on the pri...
ECLAC Launched Digital Development Observatory to Contribute to Latin America and the Caribbean’s Di...
The DDO’s first figures reveal major lags in digital technology adoption by the region’s productive sector.
ECLAC Launched Platform for Cluster and Other Territorial Productive Articulation Initiatives in Lat...
At a virtual event led by Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, with the participation of prominent specialists in this area, officials p...