Inauguración del Seminario Internacional "Políticas para la Agricultura en América Latina y el Caribe: Competitividad, Sostenibilidad e Inclusión Social"

CEPAL Review no.105

CEPAL Review no.105

Productivity growth in Latin American manufacturing: what role for international trade intensities?

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…

Presentación "Agenda Digital de Europa", del Sr. Francisco García Morán de la Comisión Europea

Seminario regional “Las Naciones Unidas en la gobernanza mundial”

CEPAL Review no.104

Revista CEPAL no.104

Threshold effects in the relationship between inward foreign direct investment and import productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

In the extensive literature on the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries, some studies have found (see Blalock and Gertler 2004, Todo and Miyamoto 2002) that the impact of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows on growth was positive and significant. Apart from contributing to domestic investment and employment, FDI enhanced local technology capacity, assisted in promoting innovation through technology transfers and, generally, strengthened the competitive environment in a host country. While it is the case that FDI has been important to the development of many …

America Latina en el umbral del desarrollo: un ejercicio de convergencia productiva

Presentación del libro de Edgard J. Dosman sobre la vida y época de Raúl Prebisch

Panorama social da América Latina 2011: documento informativo

A versão anterior do Panorama social enfatizaram-se as brechas de desigualdade e sua reprodu ção intergeracional, e prestou-se especial aten ção às etapas formativas dos indivíduos e sua transi ção à vida adulta, bem como ao comportamento do gasto social e das transferências em fun ção dos requerimentos das novas gera ções em suas primeiras etapas. Mostrou-se a forma como o trânsito no ciclo vital marca trajetórias diferenciadas pelo desenvolvimento de capacidades, enquistando a desigualdade e a pobreza na passagem de uma etapa a outra da vida das pessoas. No Panorama social da América Latina …