A América Latina e o Caribe têm grandes oportunidades para fortalecer suas relações econômicas e sua cooperação com a China, país que já é o segundo sócio comercial da região, segundo um recente documento da CEPAL apresentado por motivo da visita do Presidente Xi Jinping à sede desta comissão regional das Nações Unidas em Santiago, Chile, realizada em 22 de novembro de 2016.
O informe Relaciones económicas entre América Latina y el Caribe y China: oportunidades y desafíos foi apresentado pela Secretária Executiva da CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, no âmbito da Cúpula de Líderes de Meios de Comunicação,…
In the framework of his official visit to Chile, the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, gave a keynote lecture today at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Santiago, urging the region’s countries to dialogue in a context of mutual respect, putting the interests that unite them first and offering a continent of peace in a troubled world, plagued by conflicts that have affected all countries due to their magnitude.
The Paraguayan leader – who took office on August 15, 2023 – was received by the United Nation…
The Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Kao Kim Hourn, will visit the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, this Thursday, September 5, in the context of his first official tour of the South American country.
The high-level official will meet with the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and afterwards, at 4:30 p.m. local time (GMT -4), he will give a keynote lecture about multilateral relations between Asian nations and Latin Amer…
Latin America and the Caribbean have great potential for improving their economic and cooperative ties with China, a country that has already become the region’s second-largest trading partner, according to a new ECLAC document presented during the visit made by President Xi Jinping to the headquarters of the United Nations Regional Commission in Santiago, Chile, on 22 November 2016.
The report Economic Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean and China: Opportunities and Challenges (in Spanish) was presented by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, at the Summit of Media …
This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the official visit of Geung-hye Park, President of the Republic of Korea, to several countries in the region.
The Republic of Korea’s success in economic and social development offers many lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean and the developing world as a whole. From being one of the poorest countries in the world in the early 1960s, in six short decades the Republic of Korea has succeeded in transforming itself into a high-income economy, a major manufacturing, scientific and export po…
This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the occasion of the visit by Li
Keqiang, Prime Minister of China, to ECLAC headquarters on 25 May 2015.
The document has five sections. The first analyses the main features of
the international economic context for Latin America and the Caribbean
and China. The second examines progress of the economic reforms under
way in China and remaining challenges in this regard. The third section
offers an overview of the region’s trade and investment relations with
China, and the fourth discusses some of…
This publication is a contribution by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to the analysis of trade and investment relations between the United States of America and Latin America and the Caribbean, on the occasion of the visit of President Barack Obama to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador in March 2011. The early years of this new decade have brought good news for Latin America and the Caribbean. The region weathered the international crisis with unprecedented resilience and emerged from it sooner and more strongly than the developed economies. It grew by 6%…
The value of regional goods exports will rise 9.7% in 2018, registering a second straight year of growth after the notable decline seen between 2012 and 2016, according to the latest projections from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), released today in Mexico City.
This increase can be broken down into a 7.6% increase in prices and a 2.1% rise in volume, ECLAC indicates in its annual report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2018, presented at a press conference by the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Ali…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean through external and domestic factors, the combined effect of which will lead to the worst contraction that the region has ever undergone, exceeding those seen in 1914 and 1930. According to the latest estimates, an average regional contraction of -5.3% is forecast for 2020, ECLAC indicated today while launching a new report.
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, presented on this Tuesday, April 21, the COVID-19 Special Rep…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) estimates the growth in the value of regional exports at 20% in 2022, driven by a 14% rise in prices and an expansion of 6% in exported volumes. These are the figures reported by the United Nations organization in its latest flagship annual report published today in a press release.
In the report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2022, the Commission also indicates that the value of regional goods imports increased by 24%. Like exports, the bulk of the increase in regional import value is attribu…
La visita que inicia esta semana el Primer Ministro de China, Li Keqiang, a Brasil, Chile, Colombia y Perú marca un nuevo hito en la profundización de las relaciones económicas, políticas y de cooperación entre América Latina y el Caribe y China.
La visita del Primer Ministro Li y el discurso que dirigirá a la región desde la CEPAL el 25 de mayo se enmarcan en un esfuerzo sostenido por parte de China de impulsar un camino conjunto, desde que en 2008 este país reconoció el carácter estratégico de la relaciones con nuestra región en su Libro Blanco (el documento formal donde consigna su pol…
En el marco de su visita oficial a Chile, el Presidente de la República del Paraguay, Santiago Peña, realizó hoy una conferencia magistral en la sede central de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en Santiago, en la cual hizo un llamado a los países de la región a dialogar en el marco del respeto mutuo, anteponiendo los intereses que los unen, ofreciendo un continente de paz en un mundo conturbado, asolado por conflictos que debido a su magnitud han impactado a todos los países del mundo.
El Mandatario paraguayo, quien asumió el cargo el pasado 15 de agosto de 2023, …
El Secretario General de la Asociación de Naciones de Asia Sudoriental (ASEAN), Kao Kim Hourn, visitará la sede central de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, el próximo jueves 5 de septiembre, en el marco de su primera gira oficial por este país sudamericano.
El alto funcionario se reunirá con el Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, y posteriormente a las 16:30 horas (GMT -4) dictará una conferencia magistral sobre las relaciones multilaterales entre las naciones asiáticas y las latinoa…
El presente documento fue preparado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en ocasión de la visita oficial de Geung-hye Park, Presidenta de la República de Corea, a varios países de la región.
La exitosa experiencia de la República de Corea en materia de desarrollo económico y social ofrece numerosas enseñanzas para América Latina y el Caribe y para el mundo en desarrollo en general. De ser uno de los países más pobres del mundo a comienzos de los años sesenta, la República de Corea fue capaz de transformarse en solo seis décadas en una economía de altos ingresos, en…
La herramienta en línea de la CEPAL y el ITC proporciona un análisis regional de casi 3.000 sitios web que representan alrededor de 900 plataformas e-commerce orientados a productos en 33 países.
LACME es el primer tablero (dashboard) que monitorea los mercados minoristas de comercio electrónico en la región. Esta herramienta gratuita muestra la dinámica de los usuarios de las plataformas orientados a productos en 33 países desde 2019 hasta 2022 y una comparación país por país. La herramienta rastrea el tráfico de visitantes y muestra las características clave de las plataformas, junto con dat…
En el presente documento, preparado por la CEPAL en ocasión de la visita a su sede en Santiago de Li Keqiang, Primer Ministro de China (25 de mayo de 2015), se analizan los principales elementos del contexto económico internacional en que se insertan hoy América Latina y el Caribe y China, se examinan los avances y desafíos del proceso de reformas económicas
en curso en este país y se presenta un panorama de las relaciones comerciales y de inversión entre la región y China. Las páginas finales ofrecen algunas reflexiones y recomendaciones para elevar la calidad de los vínculos económicos entre…
Esta publicación es una contribución de la Comisión Económica para América Latina
y el Caribe (CEPAL); al análisis de las relaciones comerciales y de inversiones entre los Estados Unidos y
América Latina y el Caribe, con motivo de la visita del Presidente Barack Obama al Brasil, Chile y El Salvador
en marzo de 2011. Los primeros años de esta nueva década han sido portadores de buenas noticias para
América Latina y el Caribe. La región ha demostrado una capacidad de recuperación sin precedentes
frente a la crisis internacional, de la que ha salido antes y con más pujanza que las economías
des…
El presente documento ha sido preparado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), con ocasión de la visita a su sede del Presidente de China, Xi Jinping, el 22 de noviembre de 2016.
En él se abordan, desde la mirada regional, los principales desafíos que enfrenta China en el marco del proceso de reformas de su modelo de desarrollo, se presenta un panorama actualizado de las relaciones comerciales y de inversión entre China y América Latina y el Caribe, y, finalmente, se abordan las perspectivas y desafíos de la cooperación entre América Latina y el Caribe y China en lo…
The automotive sector is one of the sectors in which trade between mercosur countries has grown most strongly. This article examines the possibility that trade diversion occurred in that sector during the period 1991-2010, assuming that product costs fell as a result of market expansion. The analysis is based on the concepts of “cost reduction” and “trade suppression” coined by Corden (1972), which capture the effects of economies of scale. Indices of regional orientation and revealed comparative advantages are used in combination to assess whether the trade bloc is evolving in line with compa…
Our Caribbean civilisation has been very much shaped by the sea. The evidence of this in our region abounds from time immemorial: the peopling of our Caribbean; its trading; its economy and commerce, ancient and modern; its daily living and eating; its culture and its thinking. All these facets of life and production have been moulded, even determined, by the sea. Yet, strangely our Caribbean civilisation has yet to reflect in public policy the real value and significance of the sea which joins us all. To be sure, each country in the region has its own ministry of fisheries but each m…