Desde abril de 2020, el turismo en la región se ha detenido temporalmente como resultado de la pandemia de la enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19). Esta parálisis no solo ha afectado duramente a las economías y el empleo del Caribe, sino también a muchas comunidades locales de América Latina. En este informe se examina la contribución del turismo a las exportaciones, el producto interno bruto (PIB) y el empleo, así como la reciente disminución de esta actividad en la región. Un escenario del impacto muestra que la caída del turismo podría llevar a una disminución del crecimiento del PIB total…
Tourism micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) recognize the importance of digital tools to attract tourists, showcase the company and sell products and services. However, they make basic use of these tools to communicate and promote the company, missing opportunities to improve their competitiveness, productivity and sustainability. This study analyses the state of the digital transformation of tourism MSMEs in the member States of the Central American Integration System (SICA), both their internal capacities and external conditions that affect their ability to innovate. The study …
21 Dic 2022, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:26
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Nota informativa
En el primer taller presencial del “Foro permanente de diálogo técnico sobre innovación, desarrollo tecnológico y agregación de valor al litio de los países del Triángulo”, que articula la CEPAL y del cual participan YPF Tecnología (Y-TEC) de Argentina, Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) de Bolivia y la Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO) de Chile; sus representantes se reunieron junto a expertos para compartir experiencias y conocimientos que contribuyan a la vigilancia tecnológica para identificar avances y desarrollos que permitan una actividad minera del litio más sostenible…
20 Oct 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:19
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Nota informativa
La CEPAL participa en el panel de alto nivel “Empresas multinacionales y empoderamiento de mujeres” en la séptima versión del Foro Mundial de Inversiones de la Conferencia de Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (UNCTAD).…
1 Abr 2017, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:20
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Publicación
Caribbean countries have been seriously impacted by the trend toward “de-risking” in the global financial system, and this is damaging to their economic security and the ability of Caribbean businesses to innovate. De-risking is the name given to the tendency of banking institutions to turn away from working relationships and lines of business for which the cost of regulatory compliance—and the risk of non-compliance— is deemed to be too high in comparison to the returns. This is a phenomenon that is affecting developing economies around the world, but the small and vulnerable economies of the…
10 Jun 2022, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:26
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Nota informativa
Los delegados de los tres países que integran el denominado Triángulo del Litio iniciaron la elaboración de un plan de acción bienal en la primera reunión del Foro Permanente de Diálogo Técnico sobre Innovación, Desarrollo Tecnológico y Agregación de Valor al Litio.…
La innovación, automatización y digitalización de los procesos productivos conllevan numerosas externalidades positivas para las empresas. Entre esos efectos se incluye un aumento de la competitividad y la productividad pues se mejoran los procesos operativos, se facilita el acceso a los nuevos mercados, se fomenta la diferenciación de los productos y se optimiza toda la cadena de valor. Las tendencias de la fabricación inteligente aprovechan esos cambios y ponen de relieve las oportunidades y los retos para las empresas. Existen varios factores que condicionan la adopción de nuevas tecnología…
1 Oct 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Publicación
The Third Caribbean Development Roundtable (23-24 April 2014) was held under the theme “Exploring strategies for sustainable growth and development in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS)”. The Roundtable focused on challenges faced in stimulating growth and creating a capacity for resilience among the Caribbean SIDS. The conference examined the continuing challenge of igniting robust growth in Caribbean Small States, and at the same time, mitigating structural and cyclical risks and uncertainty.
The presentations made at the Roundtable can be placed under six themes which comprise …
1 Mayo 2007, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:30
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Publicación
Developing countries with a relatively long expertise in competition policy, such as Argentina and Brazil, may provide a very valuable point of reference for developing countries that have acquired more recently a competition legal and institutional framework. Among the recommendations that can be derived from Argentina and Brazil for other more recent comers to the competition institutional arena are: i) the importance of having a single and independent body in charge of applying the competition law; ii) the need for competition policy and the judiciary system to coordinate their acti…
La División de Recursos Naturales participó en la sesión 2: Minerales Críticos en las Américas: Propuestas para fortalecer las cadenas de suministro, del Foro de Minería y Sostenibilidad de las Américas del 2021: Cadenas de suministro regionales de minerales críticos.…
25 - 29 Nov
2024, 06:00 - 09:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…
26 - 30 May
2025, 09:00 - 12:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…
Latin America and the Caribbean is a large, heterogeneous region that has been open to foreign direct investment (FDI) and is home to two of the top FDI recipient economies in the world: Brazil and Mexico. The trade and investment relationship between the region and the member States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) has been concentrated on infrastructure and energy, and to a lesser extent commercial and financial services, agriculture and tourism. Both regions could exploit synergies to benefit more from bilateral …
La directora de la División de Recursos Naturales de la CEPAL (DRN), Jeannette Sánchez, participó junto con la Ministra de Minería de Chile, Marcela Hernando; el Subsecretario de Coordinación Institucional de Energía de Argentina, Guillermo Usandivaras; la Secretaria de Energía de México, Norma Rocío Nahle García; y el Ministro de Hidrocarburos y Energías del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Franklin Molina Ortiz, en el Foro Internacional “Perspectivas del Litio desde América Latina”, realizado de manera virtual el 13 de abril de 2022.…
19 - 23 May
2025, 09:01 - 12:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…
The volume of trade in digitally enabled services in Latin America and the Caribbean is determined, in part, by the complexity and heterogeneity of the regulatory environment in home and destination markets, according to firm-level surveys conducted in the region. This report analyses the regulation of digitally enabled and computer services in 13 Latin American countries using the Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (DSTRI) and the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index for computer services (CSSTRI) developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The re…
7 Jul 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Comunicado de prensa
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, called for taking advantage of the opportunities and advantages that the region offers to foreign investors and launched a cooperation initiative with German businesspeople to create a Latin American export platform, during meetings held in Berlin.
In a two-day visit to the German capital, Bárcena met with German executives with Latin American business interests during the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Lateinamerika Verein (the Business Association for Latin America) and …