This 2007-2008 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean comes 60 years after the first session of ECLAC, when the Executive Secretary of the Commission was mandated by the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the countries attending the session to undertake the collection, evaluation and dissemination of [...] economic, technological and statistical information on the region with a view to preparing an economic survey of Latin America . The first report drawn up in fulfillment of that mandate was seen as a first step in what was already…
Con la presente edición del Estudio económico de América Latina y el Caribe 2007-2008, se cumplen 60 años desde que el Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL recibiera el mandato del Consejo Económico y Social de las Naciones Unidas y de los países que asistieron al primer período de sesiones de la Comisión para que esta emprendiera la compilación, evaluación y difusión de informaciones económicas, técnicas y estadísticas de la región, con el objeto de elaborar un estudio económico de América Latina . El estudio preparado en virtud de aquel mandato se consideró un primer paso en lo que ya…
General trends of the recent evolutionEconomic activity in the Central American Isthmus 1 and the Dominican Republic in 2007 expanded 7.1%, four tenths less than in 2006. Thus, the economic growth of the subregion 2 was one and a half percentage points greater than the registered average of Latin America and the Caribbean. In terms of GDP per capita, growth was 5%. This performance represents a continuation of the expansionary phase of the economic cycle that began in 2004, characterized by an improvement in the majority of the economic and social indicators and linked to the positive evolutio…
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