1 Nov 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:23
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Latin America and the Caribbean is among the fastest growing markets in the world and an important trading partner for many countries. The positive byproducts of this trend include deeper integration and strengthened economic and diplomatic relations with trading partners around the world. However, as trade continues to grow, disputes will naturally arise between nations with respect to a wide range of trade barriers. Often these disputes are addressed within the framework of the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement System.
This document describes the experience of the region in the W…
1 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:24
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In March 2010, negotiations aimed at enlarging the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) were launched. Nine countries from Asia, Oceania and the Americas currently participate in them. The United States, which in practice has assumed a leading role, has stated that this process has the ultimate goal of transforming the TPP in a platform for large-scale trans-Pacific economic integration. It has also expressed that the enlarged TPP should be a high-quality, 21st century agreement. For the current two Latin American participants (Chile and Peru), as well as for…
23 Mayo 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:39
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(21 May 2011) The new commodity price hike seen in recent months, especially for agricultural, mineral and energy goods, is generating uncertainty and stands in the way of investment and the sustained accumulation of technological and productive capacity in Latin American and Caribbean countries, according to the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, who was speaking during a two-day visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, which ended yesterday.
Ms. Bárcena was the main speaker at the second day of the G-20 workshop on commodities that was being held in the Argentine capital and attend…
1 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:24
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This publication is a contribution by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to the analysis of trade and investment relations between the United States of America and Latin America and the Caribbean, on the occasion of the visit of President Barack Obama to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador in March 2011. The early years of this new decade have brought good news for Latin America and the Caribbean. The region weathered the international crisis with unprecedented resilience and emerged from it sooner and more strongly than the developed economies. It grew by 6%…
1 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:24
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Esta publicación es una contribución de la Comisión Económica para América Latina
y el Caribe (CEPAL); al análisis de las relaciones comerciales y de inversiones entre los Estados Unidos y
América Latina y el Caribe, con motivo de la visita del Presidente Barack Obama al Brasil, Chile y El Salvador
en marzo de 2011. Los primeros años de esta nueva década han sido portadores de buenas noticias para
América Latina y el Caribe. La región ha demostrado una capacidad de recuperación sin precedentes
frente a la crisis internacional, de la que ha salido antes y con más pujanza que las economías
des…
23 Mayo 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:39
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(21 de mayo, 2011) La nueva escalada de precios registrada en los últimos meses por los productos básicos, especialmente agrícolas, minerales y energéticos, genera incertidumbre y representa un obstáculo a la inversión y acumulación sostenida de capacidades tecnológicas y productivas en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, alertó la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, durante una visita de dos días a Buenos Aires, Argentina, que culminó anoche.
Bárcena fue la oradora principal en el segundo día del Taller de trabajo G-20 sobre commodities (productos básicos) en l…
1 Nov 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:23
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This paper focuses primarily on proposals to liberalize trade of Environmental Goods, characterizing the trade of these products in Latin America and the Caribbean. The objective is to help identify trends, risks and opportunities for exporters as well as for importers, in a context of increased global competition in manufactured products from Asia and China in particular. For Latin America and the Caribbean, implementing policies aimed at both lowering trade barriers to environmental goods and services and greening the region's export basket will result in gains both for the …
1 Nov 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 17:29
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This paper analyzes the relationship between the intensity of international trade flows and labor productivity for 28 industries in the five main economies in the region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) using the Arellano-Bond generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator. The results show that international trade flows contributed through various channels to labor productivity growth in the period 1990 to 2008. These channels, which have been developed in the theoretical literature, are export intensity (share of production exported), import penetration (share of domestic deman…