Após dois anos consecutivos de contração, a América Latina e o Caribe apresentarão em 2017 um modesto crescimento de 1,3%, segundo novas projeções divulgadas hoje pela CEPAL.
O organismo regional da ONU divulgou seu Relatório anual: Balanço Preliminar das Economias da América Latina e do Caribe 2016, no qual enfatiza a necessidade de dinamizar o impulso do investimento público-privado para retomar o crescimento de curto e longo prazo e enfrentar os riscos e as crescentes incertezas do cenário internacional.
“Estamos em um ponto de inflexão. A América Latina e o Caribe voltarão a crescer, porém…
Ya se encuentra disponible desde hoy en internet una nueva edición de Revista CEPAL, principal publicación académica de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, con estudios de especialistas sobre los mercados de crédito y cambiario de la región, los riesgos macroeconómicos de la cesación de pagos, y análisis de la situación laboral en Chile, México y Uruguay, entre otros temas.
La Revista CEPAL N⁰ 120 incluye en su número de diciembre de 2016 el artículo “Protección de los acreedores, intercambio de información y crédito para pequeñas y medianas empresas: datos comparativos entr…
The thinking that has unilaterally dominated economic science for over five decades has recently come under intensive scrutiny and its validity and conceptual and empirical coherence are the subject of controversy. Thus the limitations of the prevailing paradigm for addressing the failures of free market economies have been laid bare.
For Latin America and the Caribbean, these failures are structural in nature, as indeed structuralism proposed in its time. Neostructuralism delves more deeply into the issues addressed in structuralism, aiming to improve positioning in the international economy,…
This document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Washington Office, presents and analyzes the most recent developments…
In this study we provide evidence regarding the relationship between the Chilean peso carry trade and currency crashes of the peso against other currencies. Using a rich dataset containing information from the local Chilean forward market, we show that speculation aimed at taking advantage of the recently large interest rate differentials between the peso and developedcountry currencies has led to several episodes of abnormal turbulence, as measured by the exchange-rate distribution’s skewness coefficient. In line with the interpretative framework linking turbulence to changes in the forward p…
En este estudio se ofrecen datos sobre la relación entre la operación de acarreo (carry trade) en pesos chilenos y las caídas de esta moneda frente a otras. Mediante el uso de un amplio conjunto de datos que contiene información del mercado cambiario a plazo local, mostramos que la especulación orientada a aprovechar los grandes diferenciales de la tasa de interés registrados en los últimos tiempos entre el peso y las monedas de los países desarrollados ha provocado varios episodios de turbulencia anormal, medidos por el coeficiente de asimetría de la distribución del tipo de cambio. De confor…
This paper analyses the coordination between monetary and fiscal policy in an emerging economy with an inflation-targeting monetary regime, in a context in which default risk shocks can lead to macroeconomic imbalances. It develops a macrodynamic model in order to capture the mechanisms of default risk transmission and its effects on the definition of reaction functions for the monetary and fiscal authorities. The main findings of the model point to the existence of new mechanisms of default risk transmission associated with price and fiscal stability.…
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la coordinación entre las políticas monetaria y fiscal en una economía emergente con un régimen monetario de metas de inflación, en un contexto en el que los choques en el riesgo de impago (default) pueden dar lugar a desequilibrios macroeconómicos. Se desarrolla un modelo macrodinámico con la finalidad de captar los mecanismos mediante los cuales se transmite el riesgo de cesación de pagos y sus efectos en la definición de funciones de reacción para las autoridades monetaria y fiscal. Los principales resultados del modelo indican la existencia de nuevo…
• The incoming U.S. administration will be inheriting a healthy economy. The job market is posting solid gains, home sales and house prices have largely recovered from the bust, and the stock market continues to hit new highs. The current expansion has passed seven years, making it the third longest ever.
• The U.S. economy has added private sector jobs for 80 months and in November added another 178,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate falling to 4.6%, its lowest level since 2007. Since its post-crisis nadir in early 2010 the economy has created 15.6 million jobs.
• Wage growth is running ahe…
The world foreign exchange reserves declined 7% from the first quarter of 2014 to the second quarter of 2016, mostly due to a significant reduction in reserve accumulation in emerging and developing economies – a 13% drop – which compares with a slight increase of 4.5% in advanced economies in the same period.
Emerging and developing economies reduced their share of world reserves as a result – from 68% in the second quarter of 2014 to 64% in the second quarter of 2016 – whereas the advanced economies’ share rose from 32% to 36% in the same period. The increase in foreign exchange reserves in …
The Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, one of ECLAC’s most important annual reports, analyzes in its 2016 edition the economic performance of the region throughout the year, the international context and macroeconomic policies implemented by countries, while also providing an outlook for 2017.…
El Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe, uno de los informes anuales más importantes de la CEPAL, analiza en su edición 2016 el desempeño económico de la región durante el año, el contexto internacional, las políticas macroeconómicas que los países han implementado y entrega perspectivas para 2017.…
El Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe, uno de los informes anuales más importantes de la CEPAL, analiza en su edición 2016 el desempeño económico de la región durante el año, el contexto internacional, las políticas macroeconómicas que los países han implementado y entrega perspectivas para 2017.…
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in 1998 the anthology Fifty years of ECLAC thought: selected texts, was published in Spanish and Portuguese, as a selection of the Commission’s classic works spanning the period from its inception through to the 1990s. Since then, that volume has become an obligatory reference in studies on Latin American development for readers who are familiar with either of those two languages; and it has been widely used in the region’s university courses, both in economics and in soc…
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean is a twice-yearly report prepared jointly by the Economic Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Office for the Southern Cone of Latin America of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The present edition analyses the main regional employment and unemployment indicators and global supply chains and their impact on decent employment.…
The U.S. second-quarter GDP growth was revised up to a 1.4% inflation-adjusted annual rate in the third and final estimate released by the Department of Commerce on September 29, following the first quarter’s 0.8% pace. Despite the upward revision, the growth rate for the first half of the year is just above 1%.…
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