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…
Este documento fue elaborado por el señor Carlos J. de Miguel, Oficial en Asuntos Ambientales y la señora Georgina Núñez, consultora de la División de Medio Ambiente y Asentamientos Humanos. La elaboración del documento fue coordinada por la señora Alicia Bárcena, Directora de la División de Medio Ambiente y Asentamientos Humanos de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).…
Resumen Este Informe contiene una síntesis de las intervenciones de los expositores asistentes al III Diálogo Parlamentario Europa-América Latina Reformas Energéticas, Desafíos Regulatorios y Desarrollo Sustentable en Europa y América Latina, realizado en Bruselas, Bélgica, del 20 al 22 de septiembre del 2000. El evento fue organizado en el marco del Proyecto Promoción del Uso Eficiente de la energía en América Latina , que cofinancian la CEPAL, por intermedio de la División de Recursos Naturales e Infraestructura, y el Programa Synergy de la Dirección General XVII de Energía de la…
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Este informe fue preparado en el marco del proyecto conjunto de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe de las Naciones Unidas (CEPAL); y el Programa SYNERGY de la Comisión Europea Promoción del Uso Eficiente de la Energía en América Latina , con el propósito de proveer una base común de análisis a los asistentes al Tercer Diálogo Parlamentario Europa-America Latina para la Promoción del Uso Eficiente de la Energía , organizado por el proyecto CEPAL/Comisión Europea. La relatoría de este III Diálogo, que se realizó en Bruselas, Bélgica, del 20 al 22 …
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Se analiza la práctica regional en la investigación científica marina, caracterizada inicialmente por una fuerte tendencia naturalista, altamente descriptiva, donde la sistemática y la taxonomía eran relevantes, que pasó a ser operativa y actualmente más holística, multidisciplinaria e intersectorial, debido principalmente al aporte que le han dado los nuevos desarrollos internacionales, tales como la Parte XIII de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho del Mar, el Capítulo 17 del Programa 21 de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo de 1…
Abstract This report contains a recap of the presentations given by the speakers at the 'first Europe-Latin America Dialogue on Promotion of Energy Efficiency', held in Brussels from 28 to 30 October 1998. The event was organized within the framework of the 'promotion of Energy Efficiency in Latin America' Project, which is cofinanced by ECLAC, through its Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division, and the SYNERGY Programme of the European Commission's XVII Directorate-General of Energy. The project is under the direction of Fernando Sánchez Albavera, ECLAC Regiona…
Introduction Barriers to Latin American and Caribbean Exports in the US Market, 1998-1999 is the sixth report released yearly by ECLAC Washington. Its aim is to provide information on trade inhibiting measures that Latin American and Caribbean exports encounter in the United States, updating that contained in previous reports. The classification of trade inhibiting measures follows that used by the US Trade Representative's yearly publication National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers. Out of this classification, the report focuses on those three of greatest relevan…
Abstract Concentration in liner shipping means that relatively larger shipping companies are increasing their market share at the expense of the remaining smaller players. Although this process is not new, it has gained strength and is particularly affecting ports and shipping services in developing regions. Because trade is growing as a proportion of world GDP, governments and international organizations attach an increasing priority to improving ports and shipping services. This leads to deregulation, which, together with technological advances, increases the incentives for shipping companie…
Abstract During the course of 1997 and 1998, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) carried out the project Comparative study of development strategies of selected East-Asian and Latin American countries with special reference to trade and industrial policies under the new international trading system . The project was designed to extract from the experiences of both regions the essence of the appropriate public policy in industrial and trade development and to identify its new role and available instruments, in conformity with the post-Uruguay Round trade reg…
La presente edición del Panorama de la inserción internacional de América Latina y el Caribe persigue el doble objetivo de informar a los gobiernos de la región sobre las tendencias de la economía y del comercio internacionales, que pueden incidir en sus estrategias de desarrollo económico, y de contribuir al intercambio de información sobre los instrumentos de política comercial utilizados por los países latinoamericanos y caribeños en el período comprendido entre enero de 1996 y julio-agosto de 1997. Esta segunda edición, correspondiente a 1997, está dividida en cuatro partes. En la primera…
Among the East and Southeast Asian economies often regarded as the most successful showcases, the People's Republic of China (PRC); occupies an outstanding place. This economy has one of the fastest growing GNPs in the world, and its outward orientation in the post-Mao Zedong era has made the country a significant world trade partner, so that the question of whether or not the economy stays on its sustained growth path will affect the welfare of the world economy in its entirety, including Latin America. The deepening of the ongoing economic reforms, coupled with prudent macro policies, s…
The Caribbean Meeting of Experts on Implementation of the SIDS Programme of Action,
held at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 17-19 May 1995 was convened
to review progress towards implementation of the SIDS Programme of Action (SIDS-POA), to
discuss constraints on the effective implementation of the Programme and to agree on priority areas
for action.
It was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean/Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (ECLAC/CDCC), in collaboration
with the United Nations Development Programme’s Special Unit …
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