1 Abr 1994, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:33
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This article argues that the ECLAC proposal for changing production patterns with social equity should take account of the cultural features of the region's societies. It therefore examines the ECLAC proposal from. a cultural standpoint, with special attention to the links between citizenship, economic development and modernity (section II);. It then analyses the processes of internationalization of culture, the relation between cultural identity and citizenship, and the impact of the processes of internationalization of culture on the region (section III);. It goes on to examine one of t…
8 Ene 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:33
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This document adopts a network analysis approach to examine the vertical trade relations between Latin America and Asia, showing the potential of these techniques for providing new insights into the patterns and dynamics of countries’ GVC linkages. Particularly, network-based measures are used to assess how important countries are as users and suppliers of foreign intermediate inputs in each network, at both the aggregate and sector level. In addition, clustering techniques are applied to identify groups of supplier countries.…
The constitution of a new international industrial order dominated by a core of large transnational corporations generally makes life more difficult for the great majority of developing countries because, since most are not in a position to compete effectively, they face still greater marginalization. TNCS more than ever before can significantly influence the international competitiveness and therefore the nature of incorporation of developing countries into the new increasingly integrated international production system. The national origin and form of foreign direct investment and technology…
Latin American manufacturing industry has undergone various changes in recent years. It has registered a favourable performance as far as exports are concerned, but production and investment have grown only slowly in a context of sluggish recovery of domestic demand and greater foreign competition. Other features are greater specialization in natural resource-based intermediate goods characterized by the importance of economies of scale, relatively long lead times for the heavy investments required, and the presence of privatized and transnational enterprises. At the same time, there are signs…
1 Ago 1993, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:33
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This article highlights the need to complement macroeconomic policies designed to secure stabilization, deregulation and greater openness with other macroeconomic and microeconomic measures aimed at revitalizing the growth and competitiveness of the countries of the region. At the national level, in terms of macroeconomic measures, it is necessary to increase domestic saving and channel it towards productive investments within the local context, while microeconomic policy should include measures to develop and consolidate in the countries an innovative, wide-ranging system for furthering chang…
21 Mayo 2019, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:33
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Ao comemorar os 70 anos da CEPAL, o Escritório em Brasília, com o apoio da Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) e da Young Scholars Initiative do Institute for New Economic Thinking, convidou jovens pesquisadores brasileiros para analisar o futuro da economia do Brasil, a partir das propostas e estruturas das análises da CEPAL. Os artigos incluídos abordam desafíos e oportunidades para o desenvolvimento do país nos próximos anos a partir de temas diversos, tais como a vulnerabilidade externa, a fragilidade das finanças públicas e do Estado, a inovação e diversificação produtiva, a necessidade de pol…
31 Ene 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:30
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This study is intended to be exploratory in nature. It seeks a better understanding of i) how the OMU cluster emerged; ii) the characteristics of the offshore medical universities in the Caribbean cluster; iii) the contribution of the offshore medical universities to the economy of the host Caribbean countries; and iv) the prospects for enhancing the educational quality, and value added captured by the Caribbean in the medical value chain.…
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
With the support of IDB-Canada Trade Fund, InWent and GTZ, the Shridath Ramphal Centre in cooperation with ECLAC Santiago developed a training program entitled Trade, Innovation Policy and Small States. The goal of the workshop was to review the global and regional context for innovation and to examine the performance of specific small states. The experience of the Caribbean was also detailed to contextualized the sub-regional performance.…
17 Jun 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:31
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Comunicado de prensa
Los mercados deben ser el resultado de alianzas público-privadas renovadas, innovadoras y de mejor calidad con visión de mediano y largo plazo que incorpore criterios de inclusión económica y social y de sostenibilidad ambiental en América Latina y el Caribe, planteó Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, durante el Foro Económico Mundial sobre América Latina y el Caribe 2016 celebrado este jueves y viernes en Medellín, Colombia.
Esta renovada ecuación se debe traducir en inversiones en infraestructura, energía limpia, transporte urbano sostenible y en el desarrollo de un mercado ún…
22 Ene 2016, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:31
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Comunicado de prensa
Los países de América Latina y el Caribe necesitan un nuevo estilo de desarrollo sostenible que permita retomar la senda de crecimiento económico fomentando nuevas coaliciones entre los sectores público y privado y la ciudadanía, dijo en Davos, Suiza, la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, quien participa hasta el sábado en la reunión anual del Foro Económico Mundial, que reúne a 2.500 líderes mundiales y cuyo tema de este año es la “Cuarta Revolución Industrial”.
“La inversión pública y privada actuando en conjunto es la opció…
20 Ago 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:33
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Noticias
La pandemia provocada por el coronavirus (COVID-19) ha intensificado los problemas estructurales y la urgencia por cambiar el modelo de desarrollo en la región. La crisis será más larga e intensa de lo que se esperaba, por ello es urgente reforzar y expandir los esquemas de integración productiva regional, afirmó hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas participó en el Foro Impacto Económico y Social del COVID-19 y desafíos futuros para Centroamérica y República Dominicana, organi…
22 Jul 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:32
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Comunicado de prensa
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, indicó hoy que la región debe apostar por la innovación para elevar la productividad y generar empleos de mayor calidad, impulsando al mismo tiempo el dinamismo económico y la inclusión social.
Alicia Bárcena intervino en Santiago de Chile en el III Foro Chile-Unión Europea, dedicado a la innovación como motor de desarrollo e inclusión social y organizado por la Fundación Euroamérica. A lo largo de dos días (21 y 22 de julio), el encuentro también contó con la participación de la President…
17 Mar 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:31
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Autoridades, funcionarios de las Naciones Unidas y representantes de la sociedad civil pidieron brindar apoyo urgente a los países del Caribe para que puedan avanzar en el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 en un contexto de gran debilidad financiera producto de la pandemia del COVID-19 y de los impactos de los desastres naturales, entre otros factores, durante una sesión de la cuarta reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible.
El panel titulado Construir un futuro mejor en el Caribe: temas clave para…
4 Abr 2017, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:32
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Comunicado de prensa
La inversión extranjera directa (IED) tiene el potencial para contribuir al cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe, fomentando sectores y actividades estratégicas para la región, como la infraestructura, la digitalización y las energías limpias, dijo este martes Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), durante el IV Foro Internacional de Inversiones de Chile realizado en un hotel en Santiago.
“Nuestra región espera que los flujos de IED puedan contribuir a la diversificación produc…
9 Abr 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:32
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Comunicado de prensa
América Latina y el Caribe debe cerrar brechas estructurales en materia productiva, educativa y de ingresos para avanzar hacia un desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible, pues la desigualdad conspira contra la estabilidad de las democracias, dijo Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), durante dos foros realizados en el marco de la VII Cumbre de las Américas que comienza el viernes en Panamá.
Esta semana el organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas redujo a 1% su proyección de crecimiento de la economía regional en 2015 debido al context…
22 Oct 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:33
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This report presents the results for Latin America and the Caribbean of the fourth Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation, conducted in the first half of 2021 against the backdrop of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and with the participation of 135 countries (14 from the region). The survey results indicate that Latin America and the Caribbean has made considerable progress since the previous edition in 2019. For the first time, it is the best performing developing region ahead of East and Southeast Asia, with an average implementation rate of 80%. The region’s…
29 Nov 2019, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:33
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The Latin American and Caribbean region faces considerable challenges in terms of reducing the non-tariff costs and the time associated with foreign trade operations. The Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation 2019, a joint initiative of the five United Nations regional commissions, seeks to gauge how far countries have advanced with regard to the baseline provided by the previous versions of the Survey in 2015 and 2017. This report summarizes the results of the Global Survey 2019 for the 18 participating countries from Latin America and the Caribbean, which account for 93…
31 Ene 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:33
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This study focuses on the identification of the challenges and capacity constraints faced by enterprises in the sub-region in exploiting trade opportunities provided by Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Partial Scope Agreements (PSAs). It concentrates on the goods sector and case studies for Belize, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, and seeks to develop a strategic framework aimed at addressing these challenges and constraints, thereby creating a platform for economic diversification and export expansion. It explores the recent trade performance of the countries in question under selected trad…
1 Oct 2000, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:32
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Abstract This paper analyses the competitiveness and technological structure of manufactured exports by leading Latin American and Asian economies for 1980-97. It explains East Asian performance with reference to the strategies adopted for technological development, focusing on foreign direct investment strategies. It particularly draws on the experience of Singapore, the countgry that has used FDI to promote industrial growth and technological upgrading more effectively than any other developing country. The paper starts by analysing the nature of technological activity in developing countrie…
This article analyses the treatment accorded to foreign investment under the present development strategy. To this end, it looks at the recent dynamics of both direct and indirect foreign investment, including portfolio investment and quasi-equity operations, the latter with reference to contracts for the transfer of production know-how. For this purpose, the main resource flows and their directions are analysed, together with the changes which have taken place in corporate strategies. It is concluded that it is necessary to put together an explicit development strategy in which the main objec…