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En este estudio se analiza la intensidad tecnológica de las exportaciones e importaciones de Centroamérica y la República Dominicana, cuantificando el proceso de transformación del comercio exterior de mercancías, a partir de los diferentes niveles de intensidad tecnológica de sus exportaciones y de sus importaciones, lo que posibilitó determinar el valor de la balanza tecnológica de la región, el índice de intensidad tecnológica de las exportaciones, así como el índice de comercio intraindustrial ponderado para cada país.
Se detectó que la exportación de productos intensivos en tecn…
Information technologies (ITs) and supply chain management (SCM) are increasingly considered as indispensable tools of competitiveness especially for companies facing excessive global competition, although these companies have not necessarily succeeded in taking full advantage of such cutting-edge technologies and management systems. Their use, especially of international SCMs, is limited to a small number of purchaser-suppliers groups that are formed primarily by transnational corporations (TNCs). The factors impeding a proliferation of SCMs at a global scale include the difficulties that com…
La composición del comercio mundial por categoría de bienes ha sufrido cambios sustanciales durante los últimos quince años. Por una parte, el escaso dinamismo exportador de los productos primarios se ha caracterizado por la reducción de la participación de los productos agropecuarios, de las materias primas no alimenticias y, sobre todo, de los combustibles. Por otra parte, se han producido incrementos en las exportación de maquinaria y equipos, especialmente los productos electrónicos y, los relacionados con las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC);, cuya participación ha…
Abstract New technological options that permit the use of digital systems to create and disseminate information around the world are paving the way for new means of organizing society and economic production and are gradually giving rise to a meta-paradigm that has come to be referred to as the Information Society. Viewed from the perspective of developing countries, the question of how to employ this emerging paradigm to achieve broader development goals and to integrate them more fully into the global Information Society is an issue of the utmost importance on the development agenda…
Abstract This paper seeks to provide a systematized framework for the main ideas that have been developed by ECLAC concerning the effects that market-led reforms have had on labour, financial and technology markets. In order to explore these questions further, a research project has been undertaken by ECLAC with the sponsorship of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The project deals with the institutional requirements for properly functioning financial, technology and labour markets. Particular attention is being devoted to the institutional forces affecting market access by tr…
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