RESUMEN
En este estudio se analiza la intensidad tecnológica de las exportaciones e importaciones de Centroamérica y la República Dominicana, cuantificando el proceso de transformación del comercio exterior de mercancías, a partir de los diferentes niveles de intensidad tecnológica de sus exportaciones y de sus importaciones, lo que posibilitó determinar el valor de la balanza tecnológica de la región, el índice de intensidad tecnológica de las exportaciones, así como el índice de comercio intraindustrial ponderado para cada país.
Se detectó que la exportación de productos intensivos en tecn…
Information technologies (ITs) and supply chain management (SCM) are increasingly considered as indispensable tools of competitiveness especially for companies facing excessive global competition, although these companies have not necessarily succeeded in taking full advantage of such cutting-edge technologies and management systems. Their use, especially of international SCMs, is limited to a small number of purchaser-suppliers groups that are formed primarily by transnational corporations (TNCs). The factors impeding a proliferation of SCMs at a global scale include the difficulties that com…
La composición del comercio mundial por categoría de bienes ha sufrido cambios sustanciales durante los últimos quince años. Por una parte, el escaso dinamismo exportador de los productos primarios se ha caracterizado por la reducción de la participación de los productos agropecuarios, de las materias primas no alimenticias y, sobre todo, de los combustibles. Por otra parte, se han producido incrementos en las exportación de maquinaria y equipos, especialmente los productos electrónicos y, los relacionados con las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC);, cuya participación ha…
Abstract New technological options that permit the use of digital systems to create and disseminate information around the world are paving the way for new means of organizing society and economic production and are gradually giving rise to a meta-paradigm that has come to be referred to as the Information Society. Viewed from the perspective of developing countries, the question of how to employ this emerging paradigm to achieve broader development goals and to integrate them more fully into the global Information Society is an issue of the utmost importance on the development agenda…
Abstract This paper seeks to provide a systematized framework for the main ideas that have been developed by ECLAC concerning the effects that market-led reforms have had on labour, financial and technology markets. In order to explore these questions further, a research project has been undertaken by ECLAC with the sponsorship of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The project deals with the institutional requirements for properly functioning financial, technology and labour markets. Particular attention is being devoted to the institutional forces affecting market access by tr…
Presentación Con la presente edición 2002 se retoma la tarea de actualización de la base de estadísticas sociales difundidas desde 1995 por la Sede Subregional de la CEPAL en México. El documento procura atender las necesidades de información oportuna y confiable sobre variables demográficas e indicadores del sector social para los 10 países de la Subregión: Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haití, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá yla República Dominicana. En el proceso de compilación de ha tratado de preservar la continuidad de las series históricas, descartando solamente aque…
Electronic commerce is a relatively new phenomenon. Its rapid expansion since the mid-1990s has drawn attention to the impact it will have on promoting trade, economic growth and development. In addition to the many benefits associated with e-commerce, concern has been rising in regards to the widening technological gap, 'The digital divide' among countries and sectors within countries. Electronic commerce and the Internet are posed to stimulate trade by lowering the cost of gathering and processing information from distant markets, by creating global access to specific goods and s…
Abstract As in other parts of the world, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America are important generators of employment while contributing to establishing certain social as well as regional 'equilibria' in the development process within the country. However, SMEs in Latin America are much less 'export-oriented'than their East Asian counterparts. SMEs in Latin America tend to produce import substitutes and non tradables while manufactured exports are still produced by large firms in relativelycapital-intensive ways. In contrast, many East Asian SMEs are…
Abstract This paper is part of an investigation about the impact of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Latin America. Based on the theoretical groundwork given in the introductory paper (From industrial economics to digital economics: an introduction to the transition ), the present paper gives an inventory of the state of development with regard to the regional transition to the so-called Information Society, in order to untangle and structure present dynamics. As knowledge and information are becoming the focus of activity, penetrating and dominating capital, natural…
Abstract This paper focuses on creating a basic awareness of the new economic coherence, which has been provoked by the introduction of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It is based on methods of traditional Industrial Economics (bricks-and-mortar economy). The paper shall endeavor to show the differences that exist between Industrial- and Digital Economics, but shall also show that we do not need to burn the old textbooks. Nevertheless there is an urgent need to rewrite them, in a sense of refocusing. Starting from the new basic conditions of the Digital Economy, which …
Resumen En 1995, cuando el Mercosur adquiere el carácter de unión aduanera, quedaban aún muchos temas pendientes para su consolidación. En los años siguientes, los progresos más significativos se centraron en el cumplimiento de los cronogramas acordados para eliminación de la excepciones al libre comercio al interior de la zona y la convergencia al Arancel Externo Común (AEC). Este trabajo intentó evaluar los efectos sobre los sectores más afectados por la eliminación del Régimen de Adecuación y discutir los probables impactos de la eliminación de las excepciones. En…
Resumen En este volumen de los Indicadores sociales básicos de la subregión norte de América Latina y el Caribe, correspondiente al bienio 2000-2001, se presentan en forma de prefacio las siguientes páginas, cuyo objetivo es identificar las grandes líneas comunes de las políticas y reformas sociales dominantes aplicadas en los 10 países que la integran: Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haití, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá y la República Dominicana. Es evidente que en un conjunto tan diverso de países este intento resulta en algún grado limitado, dada la singularidad de cada u…
26 de Junio de 2015, 05:30 - 15:00
|
Evento (Monitoring committee)
“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…
The agenda of the fifteenth meeting of the Executive Committee includes a review of the proposed activities of the working groups, and the adoption of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities of the Conference for 2016-2017. The meeting is preceded by seminar on the follow-up framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Agreements and Report
▪ Report of the fifteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of SCA-ECLAC
▪ Agreements of the meeting
Working documents
Preliminary Programme
LC/L.4167(CE.15/1)/Rev.2
Provisional agenda
LC/L.4178(CE.15/2)…
Naciones Unidas