Dos desafíos para la aplicación del Convenio de Basilea en la región: el borrador de acuerdo regional y la cooperación con otros acuerdos multilaterales ambientales

Concentration in liner shipping: its causes and impacts for ports and shipping services in developing regions

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…

Trade and industrial policies: past performance and future prospects

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…

Panorama de la Inserción Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe 1997

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…

El grado de preparación de los países pequeños para participar en el ALCA = Readiness of small countries to participate in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

El grado de preparación de los países pequeños para participar en el ALCA = Readiness of small countries to participate in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

Recent economic trends in China and their implications for trade with Latin America and the Caribbean

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…

Summary report of the Caribbean meeting of experts on Implementation of the SIDS Plan of Action

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 …

Caribbean Meeting of Experts on Implementation of SIDS Programme of Action : Notes on agenda and documentation

El regionalismo abierto en America Central: los desafíos de profundizar y ampliar la integración

Cooperación empresarial en la que intervienen firmas brasileñas y argentinas: primeras reflexiones que surgen del trabajo de campo

Cooperación empresarial entre PYMEs brasileñas y argentinas: primeras reflexiones que surgen del trabajo de campo en Brasil

Los proyectos de creación de empleo productivo en la transición de El Salvador

Cooperación empresarial entre PYMEs argentinas y firmas brasileñas: primeras reflexiones que surgen del trabajo de campo en Argentina

Industrialización y Desarrollo Tecnológico. Informe no. 14

Evolución de la integración Centroamericana en 1992: estado de avance

Cooperación industrial entre países desarrollados y en desarrollo: un estudio de caso en Chile

Draft provisional agenda. CDCC. Session

V Reunión sobre cooperación marítima regional entre países sudamericanos, México y Panamá

Costa Rica: evolución económica reciente y la cooperación internacional