(27 de enero, 2014) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, hizo hoy entrega de un documento titulado Panorama Económico y Social de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, 2013 durante una reunión de cancilleres de los países miembros de dicha comunidad, conocida por las siglas CELAC, que se celebró en La Habana.
El informe se basa en extractos de algunos de los principales reportes anuales publicados durante 2013 por la CEPAL e incluye cinco capítulos dedicados al panorama económico, la inversión extranjera direc…
Business services have been one of the fatest growing export areas in emerging economies over the past decade. The spread of information and communication technologies and the rise in trade liberalization have facilitated the global unbundling and offshoring of services activities from advanced to developing countries, including those in Latin America. This offshoring has gradually evolved into more sophisticated forms of business process outsourcing. Several countries in the region are now in the process of further upgrading their services exports to participate in knowledge process outsourci…
(9 March 2013) At the closing session of a regional conference today in Bogotá, Colombia, authorities from several Latin American and Caribbean countries and international experts agreed on the urgency of building a global, unified, comprehensive and equitable post-2015 development agenda that is relevant to everyone.
The Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20, which began on 7 March in Bogotá, was organized by the Government of Colombia and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean …
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(9 de marzo, 2013) Autoridades de varios países de América Latina y el Caribe y expertos internacionales coincidieron en la urgencia de construir una agenda de desarrollo post-2015 global, unificada, integral y equitativa, que sea relevante para todos, al cierre de una conferencia regional hoy en Bogotá, Colombia.
La Conferencia sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe: seguimiento de la agenda para el desarrollo post-2015 y Río+20, que arrancó el 7 de marzo en Bogotá, fue organizada por el Gobierno de Colombia y la Comisión Económica…
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(7 March 2013) Today, authorities from several Latin American countries and international experts opened the Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20 , which is being held from 7 to 9 March in Bogotá, Colombia.
At the opening of the meeting, which is organized by the Government of Colombia and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and attended by all United Nations agencies in the region, participants ag…
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(7 de marzo, 2013) Autoridades de varios países de América Latina y expertos internacionales dieron inicio hoy a la Conferencia sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe: seguimiento de la agenda para el desarrollo post-2015 y Río+20, que se realiza del 7 al 9 de marzo en Bogotá, Colombia.
En la inauguración del encuentro, organizado por el Gobierno de Colombia y la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y que cuenta con la participación de todas las agencias de las Naci…
This essay suggests that there is a body of Latin Americanstructuralist economic theory which possesses distinctive characteristicswhile having a family resemblance to other institutionalist schools ofthought, and which is based on an original approach to economic value.The founders of structuralism conceived a systemic, multidimensional anddynamic approach. They applied it to the study of improvements in, and thesocial distribution of, labour productivity generated in the central economiesand the effects of these on the societies of the periphery. This outlookchallenges the notion of markets …
En este ensayo se sugiere que existe una teoría económicaestructuralista latinoamericana dotada de rasgos propios, emparentadacon otras corrientes institucionalistas y basada en una visión originaldel valor económico. Los fundadores del estructuralismo concibieron unenfoque sistémico, multidimensional y dinámico. Lo aplicaron al estudiode los incrementos y la distribución social de la productividad laboralgenerada en las sociedades centrales y a sus efectos en las sociedadesperiféricas. Esta perspectiva cuestiona la noción de mercados que seautorregulan y retornan a posiciones de equilibrio es…
This article analyses the costs in terms of income distribution of the crisis and adjustments of the 1980s, as well as the effects of the subsequent recovery and resumption of sustained growth patterns. This analysis is based on comparable pairs of estimates of income distribution and poverty prepared by ECLAC for the ten largest and predominantly urban countries of the region. The method of analysis consists, on the one hand, of comparing the changes in distribution and in the macroeconomic and labour market variables during similar macroeconomic phases in the course of the adjustment process…
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