CEPAL Review no.69

Privatización portuaria: bases, alternativas y consecuencias

Resumen Durante medio siglo los gobiernos han operado los puertos estatales como entes sociopolíticos, haciendo caso omiso a las señales del mercado. Al no responder a éstas, los gobiernos han tenido que subvencionar los puertos, aceptar que las operaciones fueran lentas y costosas, renunciar a la introducción de tecnologías que reducen la demanda de estibadores, permitir a los sindicatos monopolizar el manejo y estiba de la carga, y negociar acuerdos colectivos que institucionalizan las prácticas ineficientes. Hoy, en cambio, los servicios portuarios deben regirse por criterios comer…

Participation and leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean: gender indicators

The indicators were designed and the data collected by the Women and Development Unit of ECLAC in collaboration with FLACSO. The final report was produced by Teresa Valdés and Indira Palacios, who are consultants with the Women and Development Unit.…

Especificidad de las crisis políticas

Estabilidad y consolidación de la democracia

El gasto militar en Colombia: aspectos macroeconómicos y microeconómicos

Crisis política y calidad de la democracia

Crisis y apertura

Crisis: recurrencia e impacto regional limitado

Crisis y legitimidad de las reformas institucionales

Debilitamiento y reconstitución de los actores colectivos

Construcción de la democracia: experiencias exitosas

A review of social development in the Caribbean in the nineties: World Summit for Social Development (WSSD)+5

Summary Following the World Summit for Social Development steps were taken by the entire United Nations system to support national governments in their efforts to implement the agenda of the Summit. This document assesses developments in health, education, crime and violence, drugs and migration five years after the Summit.…

Achieving gender equality: A preliminary documentation on the use of gender planning as part of the gender mainstreaming process among selected Caribbean countries

Review of Caribbean economic and social performance in the 1980's and 1990's

Introduction The integration of the world economy gathered momentum in the mid-1980s and continued during the 1990s, through increased trade and financial flows around the world, and the establishment and strengthening of linkages related to the production and distribution of goods and services. Trade flows around the world received a boost from the successful conclusions of the negotiations of the Uruguay Round of trade talks, the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the beginning, in 1995, of the implementation of the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GA…

ECLAC/CDCC report on the phenomenon of ageing and the situation of older persons in the Caribbean

Barriers to Latin American and Caribbean exports in the US market, 1998-1999

Introduction Barriers to Latin American and Caribbean Exports in the US Market, 1998-1999 is the sixth report released yearly by ECLAC Washington. Its aim is to provide information on trade inhibiting measures that Latin American and Caribbean exports encounter in the United States, updating that contained in previous reports. The classification of trade inhibiting measures follows that used by the US Trade Representative's yearly publication National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers. Out of this classification, the report focuses on those three of greatest relevan…

La economía Cubana: reformas estructurales y desempeño en los noventa

La economía Cubana: reformas estructurales y desempeño en los noventa (anexo estadistico)

Escritos de Rolando Franco Díaz, 1967-1999