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El análisis de las políticas de fomento para las pequeñas empresas que se han desarrollado en Chile en los años noventa reviste un gran interés para los estudiosos y los encargados de la formulación de políticas que se ocupan de estos temas, principalmente por las siguientes razones: en primer lugar, porque la experiencia chilena es una de las pocas (si no la única); experiencias que puede ser evaluada en una perspectiva de mediano plazo, ya que las principales líneas e instrumentos de acción han sido aplicados y monitoreados (más o menos eficientemente); a lo largo de más de una décad…
Access to Latin American and Caribbean Exports in the United States market, 2001-2002 is the seventh annual report released by the ECLAC Washington Office, updating information contained in previous reports. Its aim is to compile and make available information on trade inhibiting measures that Latin American and Caribbean exports encounter in the United States market. This report needs to be placed in the context of a trade relationship between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean, which has grown strongly over the years to the benefit of both economies. Moreover, it must be…
Summary The original aim of this study was to serve as an input for the Regional Preparatory Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 23 and 24 October 2001. This document was produced by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In preparing the study, national preparatory activities and inputs from subregional meetings were taken int…
Documento elaborado en el marco de la Conferencia Regional de América Latina y el Caribe preparatoria de la Cumbre Mundial sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible (Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, 2002), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 23 y 24 de octubre de 2001…
Introduction The volatility and contagion characteristic of international financial markets, which dominated emerging economies during the 1990s, have deep historical roots.1 Indeed, from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s, Latin America and many other regions in the developing world experienced a long boom-bust cycle, the most severe of its kind since that of the 1920s and 1930s. The shortening but also the intensity of boom-bust cycles have been distinctive features of the past decade. The latter is reflected, in the words of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, in the fact that the…
Ante el entorno de restricción fiscal que enfrenta la mayoría de los países de la región, las autoridades ambientales ven limitadas las posibilidades de fortalecer su capacidad mediante mayores asignaciones presupuestarias. Se impone la necesidad de mejorar la calidad ambiental al menor costo económico posible y aumenta la percepción de que los esquemas regulatorios tradicionales no han logrado responder adecuadamente a los procesos de deterioro de la calidad ambiental que aquejan a la región. Durante la ú…