This paper analyses the role assigned to foreign direct investment and transnational corporations in the ECLAC development project, examining the history of the institution and its most representative publications. With impressive continuity in its vision and policy recommendations, ECLAC has recognized the need for foreign investment as an aid for Latin American development, but has been cautious about its consequences. ECLAC has continually called for close scrutiny and regulation of the activities of transnational corporations. The main idea underlying these recommendations is that Latin Am…
Describe la incorporación de la temática de los recursos naturales en la planificación agropecuaria regional, haciendo la distinción entre el inventario y la evaluación de los recursos naturales. Analiza metodologías utilizadas en el levantamiento integrado de dichos recursos, a partir de experiencias en varios países, para finalmente hacer referencia al caso de Colombia.…
China has become the third largest source of FDI in the world, only behind the United States and Japan. Chinese outward FDI continues to grow every year, but inflows into Latin America have remained stagnant since the year 2010 when a large wave of acquisitions introduced many Chinese companies to the region. They also remain very concentrated on the extraction of natural resources and in a handful of countries. Slower growth in China, and lower commodity prices may force some Chinese companies to change their strategy and start looking for overseas markets in new sectors, particularly in serv…
This report presents information on the environmental impact of vessels during their general operation. It is shown that the emissions from vessels can substantially contribute to local air quality problems over land and also impact the climate change process. Up to now, the contribution of the maritime sector to air quality problems in Latin American and Caribbean coastal cities has received little or no attention. Studies for the United States and Europe show that the contribution of this sector may however be significant. Given the persistence of air quality problems in Latin America, it ap…
This paper looks at the evolution of the terms of trade between commodities and manufactures in the twentieth century. A statistical analysis of the relative price series for 24 commodities and eight indices reveals a significant deterioration in their barter terms of trade over the years 1900 to 2000. This decline was not continuous, however, nor was it distributed evenly among individual products. As is shown here, the far-reaching changes that the world economy underwent around 1920 and again around 1980 led to a stepwise deterioration which, over the long term, was reflected in a decline o…
Introducción
During the 1990s the market for Latin America's debt grew in volume, types of instruments traded and number of investors and trade houses involved. Investors were drawn by high growthpotential and high yields in most Latin American countries, as well as by a general trend towards the implementation of economic and political reforms. As a result, the relative size of Latin America's market worldwide grew.This growth, however, was affected by a series of market events that underscored Latin America's vulnerability to financial shocks. Growth in trading volumes and ass…
28 - 29 May
2018, 05:00 - 13:30
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
The policy research workshop will explore the economic and social implications of emerging trends in new digital production technologies, their impact on national economies and the global economic systems, and the role of industrial policy in steering the digital revolution in a socially desirable direction, i.e. preventing damaging consequences and promoting its positive impact. Innovative digital technologies are disruptive in nature and have far-reaching consequences for all three dimensions of sustainable development: They (1) affect future patterns of productivity, competitiveness and emp…
Los Foros Regionales sobre Desarrollo Sostenible convocados por las cinco comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas, entre ellos, el Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, proporcionan un espacio idóneo para la reflexión regional en torno a la implementación de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible y sus 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), facilitando el aprendizaje entre pares y el intercambio de buenas prácticas, coincidieron hoy autoridades y funcionarios de las Naciones Unidas en un encuentro que tuvo lugar en Nueva York.
El even…
25 Abr 2023, 07:00 - 09:00
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Evento (Otros eventos)
CEPAL organiza evento paralelo “Minerales Críticos para la Transición Energética” durante el Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre Desarrollo Sostenible 2023…
7 - 10 Abr
2025, 05:00 - 14:00
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Evento (Conferencias y reuniones de órganos subsidiarios)
El Tercer Foro sobre Defensoras y Defensores de los Derechos Humanos en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe tendrá lugar en Basseterre, Saint Kitts y Nevis, del 7 al 10 de abril de 2025. El foro será presencial, con transmisión en vivo a través del canal: https://live.cepal.org/escazu El registro para participar presencialmente se encuentra cerrado.…
El día 5 de diciembre de 2018, la Sede Subregional de la CEPAL en México participó en el Encuentro organizado por la P. Universidad Católica del Perú con el objetivo de contribuir a la reflexión sobre la situación actual de las políticas públicas dirigidas a las personas mayores en el Perú.…
This book is motivated by the emerging rehabilitation of industrial policies as a tool for supporting economic transformation and high rates of growth in developing countries. It argues that underperforming disciples of the Washington Consensus 'market fundamentalism' should learn and practice the art of systemic industrial policies, which requires a medium-long term strategic perspective and intelligent proactive state interventions in markets. However, it also stresses that rehabilitation requires that industrial policies be developed and implemented in a context of home- grown pub…
Words can make a difference sometimes.Brazil is – together with the other ´BRIC´- a large economy, with an increasingly high profile in the international scenario. Large domestic market makes it more likely to obtain ‘growth-led exports’ rather than ‘export-led growth’, which implies a pro-active role in international relations. The option for intensifying regional trade links is a reasonable one and perhaps even inevitable, taking into account the experience elsewhere, but the actual regional conditions raise a number of questions that have to do both with further empirical assessment and to …
This document was produced under the supervision of Juan Carlos Feres, Chief of the Social Statistics Unit, Statistics and Economic Projections Division, ECLAC, and was written by Pablo Villatoro, Consultant in the Division. Marcelo Miño and Elizabeth Rivera both contributed to this study, while Carlos Vergara and Ernesto Ottone made valuable comments and suggestions. The production of the document was funded by the EUROsociAL Programme of the European Commission. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean wishes to thank those whose financial cooperation made the production a…
The report aims to contribute to a better understanding of the different indices of e-Readiness and their application in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Different institutions have used indices of e-Readiness in search to quantify a country's preparedness for the Information Society. These indices are composed of different indicators that are based on various statistics. The weight of each component of the index, as well as the chosen statistics, differs among indices. In the majority of cases, studies of e-Readiness conclude with a ranking , listing cou…
THE GOAL OF THE COURSE
Training policymakers in good practices to improve thecapacities of MSMEs to participate in cross-border e-commerce.
SPECIFIC GOALS
To learn about recent developments and trends indomestic and cross-border e-commerce particularly sincethe beginning of the pandemic and to examine thebarriers and challenges that MSMEs face in this type ofinternational trade.
To understand the process of digital transformation anddigital capacity-building of MSMEs for the effectiveimplementation of cross-border e-commerce processes,systems and tools, along with the support thatgovernments …