Caribbean SIDS Prepare for Johannesburg 2002 - The World Summit on Sustainable Development

Foro Global de Servicios en asociación con la Conferencia REDLAS 2018: Servicios basados en el conocimiento para el desarrollo sostenible

Del 13 al 14 de septiembre de 2018, el Foro Global de Servicios (FGS) y la Conferencia de la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe para la Investigación en Servicios (REDLAS) se reunirán en Buenos Aires, Argentina, para centrarse en el importante papel de los servicios basados en el conocimiento para el desarrollo sostenible, la diversificación productiva y de exportación, la innovación e internacionalización.…

Latin America’s faltering manufacturing competitiveness: What role for intermediate services?

This document contributes to the scarce empirical literature on the role of services as a source of manufacturing competitiveness in developing economies, providing evidence on the Latin American region. The 2018 release of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Trade in Value Added (TiVA) database is used to assess the servicification of manufacturing exports in seven Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru) between 2005 and 2015, in comparison with ten Asian emerging economies (eight ASEAN countries (Brunei Daruss…

Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of disasters

E-business innovation and customs renovation for secure supply chain management

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…

Private-public alliances for export development: the Korean case

The present report explains the development path of Korea, from a country which started its development with a lack of natural resources, industrial facilities, sufficient foreign reserves and business experiences and with human resources as its only productive factor at the disposal, to its successful technological catch-up, export performance and economic development. The study clarifies this development by concentrating on the formulation and implementation mechanism of development strategies and policies with the emphasis on trade; the technological capability building process and institu…

Economic growth with equity: challenges for Latin America

The publication of this book was made possible by the contributions of the Ford Foundation and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The funds of the latter institution are managed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). This is an ECLAC and Palgrave Macmillan copublication. Preface From time to time, Latin American countries experience growth spurts, like in the period 2004-05, when the region achieved the highest biennial growth rate of the past 25 years. However, sustained growth has been elusive in the last quarter …

Strategies for increasing economic resilience in the Caribbean

Trade, environment and development: implications for Caribbean countries

Introduction Trade and development issues have been the focus of economists, policy makers and international organizations for decades. However, environmental concerns have only come to the fore within the last couple of decades largely as a result of the work of scientists on, for example, climate change and loss in biodiversity as well as the lobbying activities of environmental groups, such as Greenpeace. The linking of environment to trade only gained international prominence since the negotiations for the Canada-United States Free Trade Area in the 1980s. However, although enviro…

Food Security Issues for Caribbean

Quinto Foro internacional de servicios Promperú

Participación en Foro Internacional sobre exportación de servicios. Esta reunión fue organizada por Promperú y tuvo lugar en Lima el día 8 de julio.…