Oficina del organismo en Brasilia ha organizado un libro que reúne ensayos con aportes para enfrentar “cuellos de botella” económicos estructurales y aprovechar oportunidades que se presentan para el desarrollo del país.…
Escritório do organismo em Brasília organizou obra que reúne ensaios com aportes para enfrentar gargalos econômicos estruturais e aproveitar oportunidades que se apresentam para o desenvolvimento do país…
Monetary regimes and labour institutions: an alternative interpretation of the downward trend in exchange-rate pass-through in peripheral countries / Martín Cherkasky and Martín Abeles . -- Models of the developmental state / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira .-- The development of venture capital in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative perspective / Ernesto H. Stein and Rodrigo A. Wagner .-- The heterogeneity of effects of preschool education on cognitive outcomes in Latin America / Juan Antonio Dip and Luis Fernando Gamboa .-- Economic growth and financial development in Brazil: a flexib…
Fintech companies, which offer financial services through the application of digital technologies, may be key to furthering financial inclusion, one of the region’s main challenges, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, said on Monday, March 25 at the inauguration of a seminar where the United Nations regional organization and Cambridge University launched a joint collaborative initiative in this area, which includes the creation of a Financial Innovation Hub for Latin America. These new companies have enormous potential to satisfy the financial needs of small and medium-sized enterpris…
Las llamadas empresas fintech, que proporcionan servicios financieros a través de la aplicación de tecnologías digitales, pueden ser clave para avanzar en materia de inclusión financiera, uno de los principales desafíos de la región, dijo el lunes 25 de marzo la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, en la inauguración de un seminario donde el organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas y la Universidad de Cambridge, Reino Unido, lanzaron una iniciativa de colaboración conjunta en esta área, que incluye la creación de un Centro Regional de Investigación sobre Fintech. Estas nuevas com…
Most of the literature about the effects of portfolio capital inflows to developing countries focuses on how macroeconomic stability is affected. Very little has been said on the long-run consequences that temporary booms in portfolio capital flows may bear by affecting the productive structure, particularly manufacturing development, of developing countries. The present paper tries to partially fill this gap. We first build a simple theoretical model to show how booming portfolio inflows may interact with domestic speculation at home, giving rise to a climate of financial euphoria featuring a…
(18 October, 2013) After a decade of relatively strong growth, Latin America is facing headwinds associated with declining trade, a moderation in commodity prices and increasing uncertainty over external financial conditions. The document Latin American Economic Outlook 2014: Logistics and competitiveness for development, jointly produced by the OECD Development Centre, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and CAF - Development Bank of Latin America, was released during the XXIII Ibero-American summit in Panama City. Weak economic performance in the euro area, t…
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