1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:51
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Las actividades informales son una fuente importante de empleo en la región. Sin embargo, hay controversia sobre la interpretación de este fenómeno y sus consecuencias. Algunos afirman que su existencia obedece a la insuficiencia dinámica de la economía y representa una estrategia de sobrevivencia, y, como tal, un refugio involuntario de los pobres. Otros sostienen que su origen se halla en las alteraciones del mercado de trabajo causadas por las regulaciones que impone el Estado, y miran la actividad informal como una alternativa favorable de trabajo que puede generar ingresos mayores que muc…
1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:51
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La revolución científica y tecnológica en marcha obliga a idear nuevas formas de región, superando antiguas restricciones de tamaño y contigüidad: la complejidad estructural es ahora el factor crucial. La generación de estructuras regionales en el ámbito nacional y supranacional exige flexibilidad, dados los rápidos cambios en el entorno regional, la globalización de las economías y las exigencias de conformación democrática de las regiones. Aquí se propone una nueva tipología que distingue entre regiones pivotales, correspondientes a las menores unidades de la actual división políticoadminist…
1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:50
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En este artículo se plantea que la propuesta de la CEPAL de transformación productiva con equidad debe considerar los rasgos culturales de las sociedades de la región. El artículo examina la propuesta de la CEPAL en una perspectiva cultural, con especial consideración del vínculo entre ciudadanía, desarrollo económico y modernidad (sección II );. Analiza los procesos de internacionalización de la cultura, la relación entre identidad cultural y ciudadanía y el impacto de los procesos de internacionalización de la cultura en la región (sección III);. Examina uno de los problemas más persistentes…
1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:51
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Consideration of the roles to be played by the public and private sectors in a country's development strategy naturally leads to an analysis of the public sector's main orientations regarding both its own actions and the establishment of a regulatory framework for the performance of certain types of activities. These orientations are expressed through public policies, i.e., the courses of action followed by the public sector in pursuance of a more or less well-defined objective. The administration, made up of the various government ministries and departments, is what provides the ins…
1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:51
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Because productivity is a determinant of comparative advantages over the medium and long terms, the relationship between productivity, industrial growth and exports of manufactures is coming under increasing scrutiny in studies on development and trade policy. This article analyses that relationship in Brazil, where the rise in industrial productivity has been slowing since the mid-1970s. The author examines this slowdown together with its causes, which include macroeconomic conditions, trade strategies, growth policies and technological trends. The theoretical aspects of the relationship betw…
1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:51
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The economies of the Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua); are largely dependent on four major traditional export products: bananas, coffee, cotton and sugar. The share of these products in total Central American exports, which is still close to 50%, only started to decline in the late 1980s. This paper explores the determinants of these four products' production trends, and the importance of non-price-related economic and social factors and of man-made and natural disruptions is fully acknowledged. However, an attempt is made to use the ECL…
1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:51
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This article analyses current trends as regards the role of transnational corporations in Argentine industry in the light of the structural changes taking place on the domestic, regional and international fronts, as compared with the conditions prevailing during the application of the import substitution model. Section I describes the new conditions observed at the national and international levels which are forcing all business enterprises to redefine their production, commercial, financial and technological strategies, with the Argentine subsidiaries of transnational corporations playing the…
1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:51
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Informal economic activities are an important source of jobs in the region. The question as to how this phenomenon should be interpreted and the nature of its implications are, however, a subject of controversy. Some analysts regard the existence of the informal economy as a consequence of insufficient economic growth; they contend that it represents a survival strategy and, as such, an involuntary refuge for the poor. Others argue that it is the result of changes in the labour market brought about by government regulation and see it as offering attractive job alternatives that may yield a hig…
1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 08:50
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This article argues that the ECLAC proposal for changing production patterns with social equity should take account of the cultural features of the region's societies. It therefore examines the ECLAC proposal from. a cultural standpoint, with special attention to the links between citizenship, economic development and modernity (section II);. It then analyses the processes of internationalization of culture, the relation between cultural identity and citizenship, and the impact of the processes of internationalization of culture on the region (section III);. It goes on to examine one of t…