Thirty-two public officials, senior officers and decision makers from several Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) countries gathered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines this week, to gain a better understanding of the tools needed to provide deeper trade analysis that would support future Economic Union trade negotiations among members of the OECS.
Hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the workshop introduced participants to a suite of cutting-edge digital tools that will bolster their ability to analyse national trade compe…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Port of Spainrecentlybrought together decision makers from Belize, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago to examine the trade-related performance of Caribbean countries.
he basis for discussion was the ECLAC study entitled “Monitoring trade agreements: Improving export performance and promoting industrialization in the goods-producing economies of the Caribbean”. The study highlighted that the exports of Belize, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago are concentrated towards few markets, most notably the United Stat…
This study will analyse the deindustrialization process in El Salvador. Deindustrialization has been a factor in the Latin American countries since the 1980s and contributes to economic stagnation and quality job loss. The first section reviews selected studies in the literature on this subject and is followed by an exploration of the possible causes of deindustrialization in El Salvador. The idea that remittances may have triggered a bout of Dutch disease is the first possibility to be examined, but it is then ruled out. The focus then turns to the repercussions of economic reforms carried ou…
En este trabajo se analiza la desindustrialización en El Salvador, un fenómeno que afecta a los países de América Latina desde los años ochenta y tiene repercusiones en términos de estancamiento económico y pérdida de empleos de calidad. En la primera sección se presenta una reseña de la literatura seleccionada sobre este tema. A continuación se examinan las causas de la desindustrialización en El Salvador, en primer lugar la posibilidad de que las remesas ocasionen un fenómeno de enfermedad holandesa. Descartada esta hipótesis, se examinan las repercusiones de las reformas económicas llevadas…
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