For most developing countries, open regionalism has emerged as quite a sensible response to the undergoing turbulent and asymmetric process of economic globalization. Moreover, the successful experience of the countries which are now part of the European Union, has made regional integration an increasingly attractive option for the developing world. Whenever regional integration is intended to go beyond merely a free trade agreement, macroeconomic coordination becomes a key issue. Theoretically, the underlying idea of the macroeconomic coordination is the interdependency between econo…
12 Nov 2003, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Describes the Caribbean Trade Statistics Database, explaining the reasons for its creation. Identifies its functions and capabilities. Outlines the process of design, listing the design considerations. Provides detailed instructions for navigation of the system. Presents an overview of the current content of the database. Provides a reference guide of terms used in the analysis of trade indicators.…
Abstract This document provides an overview of trade relations between Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and explores the possibilities for expanding the modalities of economic relations between the two regions. The analysis covers 12 countries in Asia and Oceania and 11 members of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA). Interregional cooperation in trade and investment has been on the agendas of countries in both regions for some time. It is often expressed that the present economic relations between the two regions do not reflect the potential for interregional trade and inve…
Los servicios modernos basados en el conocimiento, es decir, aquellos que utilizan alta tecnología y/o cuentan con mano de obra calificada que se requiere para incorporar las innovaciones tecnológicas, son fundamentales para promover la transformación productiva de las economías. El aporte de este tipo de servicios al desarrollo sostenible de los países será el centro de los debates del Foro Global de Servicios 2018, que se realiza el 13 y 14 de septiembre en Buenos Aires, Argentina.
El Foro, que se lleva a cabo de manera conjunta con el séptimo encuentro anual de la Red Latinoamericana y del …
1 Nov 2009, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:22
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La presente publicación es un aporte de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en respuesta a la solicitud del Gobierno de México, al quinto Foro Ministerial del Arco del Pacífico Latinoamericano y complementa el informe previo presentado a la cuarta reunión de dicho foro celebrada en Santiago en octubre de 2008. Este documento tiene por objeto brindar a los gobiernos una perspectiva actualizada del impacto de la crisis financiera internacional, tanto en los países asiáticos como en los latinoamericanos, sus implicancias para los futuros vínculos económicos y comerci…
For many countries, the acceleration of integration into the global economy and multilateral trading system provides an opportunity to access a wider range of goods and services as well as export markets, increasing their economic incomes, and improving the welfare of the citizenry. In particular, preferential trade agreements tend to increase export market access opportunities for the agro-industrial products of developing countries.
While increased market access offers many opportunities for enhancing the economic growth of exporting countries, developing countries are often unable to seize…
1 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:31
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In March 2010, negotiations aimed at enlarging the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) were launched. Nine countries from Asia, Oceania and the Americas currently participate in them. The United States, which in practice has assumed a leading role, has stated that this process has the ultimate goal of transforming the TPP in a platform for large-scale trans-Pacific economic integration. It has also expressed that the enlarged TPP should be a high-quality, 21st century agreement. For the current two Latin American participants (Chile and Peru), as well as for…
17 Ene 2003, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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The services sector has grown significantly in most countries and in the world economy as a whole. This has been observed in the progression from primary to secondary and/or tertiary sector-led economic growth and development. Services contribute significantly to output, employment and exports. They account for about 80% of the United States output (GDP) and about 65% of GDP of the European Union. Developed countries are the largest service exporters accounting for over 70% of services traded in the late 1990s. Although developing countries account for a relatively smal…
23 Mayo 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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(21 May 2011) The new commodity price hike seen in recent months, especially for agricultural, mineral and energy goods, is generating uncertainty and stands in the way of investment and the sustained accumulation of technological and productive capacity in Latin American and Caribbean countries, according to the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, who was speaking during a two-day visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, which ended yesterday.
Ms. Bárcena was the main speaker at the second day of the G-20 workshop on commodities that was being held in the Argentine capital and attend…
1 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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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%…
31 Oct 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:31
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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…
10 Ene 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:31
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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…
25 Mayo 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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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…
1 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:29
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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…
23 Mayo 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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(21 de mayo, 2011) La nueva escalada de precios registrada en los últimos meses por los productos básicos, especialmente agrícolas, minerales y energéticos, genera incertidumbre y representa un obstáculo a la inversión y acumulación sostenida de capacidades tecnológicas y productivas en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, alertó la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, durante una visita de dos días a Buenos Aires, Argentina, que culminó anoche.
Bárcena fue la oradora principal en el segundo día del Taller de trabajo G-20 sobre commodities (productos básicos) en l…
1 Abr 2010, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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AbstractUsing a GTAP CGE model/database, this paper assesses the possible effects of a free trade agreement (FTA); between the MERCOSUR and the European Union (EU);. The study takes into consideration the most important recent free trade agreements signed among the Latin American countries, as well as the latest European Union enlargements. With a 2004+ benchmark base scenario where tariffs were updated by the addition of information on trade agreements just signed by Latin American countries, two different policy simulations are addressed: (i); full liberalization, (ii); liberalization exclu…
13 Nov 2023, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Nota informativa
Latin America and the Caribbean accounted for 22% of U.S. foreign trade in the first half of 2023, according to the recent document United States – Latin America and the Caribbean Trade Developments 2023 published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).…
1 Oct 2001, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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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…
1 Ene 2008, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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This document examines the effects on CARICOM countries of changes in the EU import regimes for banana, rice and sugar. Changes have been pursued by the EU since the formation of the Single Market in 1992 and were determined by both internal and external factors - cost to the EU budget and WTO requirements, respectively. Changes were made to tariff quotas affecting mainly non ACP exports of bananas to the EU market; reduction in the price of sugar in the EU market and reduction in both price and tariffs in the EU rice market.…
1 Oct 2009, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:31
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La edición 2008-2009 del Panorama de la inserción internacional de América Latina y el Caribe se divide en tres capítulos. En el capítulo I se analiza la coyuntura económica internacional con una mirada de mediano plazo. Se presta especial atención a las variables que más pueden modificar el escenario global y afectar la inserción internacional de las economías de América Latina y el Caribe. Como ejemplo de los cambios que está generando o acentuando la crisis cabe destacar la creciente importancia de las economías emergentes, con el consiguiente impacto sobre las corrientes comerciales de la…