CEPAL participó en V Foro Mesoamericano de PYMES realizado en Panamá

Funcionarios de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) participaron los días 5 y 6 de diciembre de 2017 en el V Foro Mesoamericano de PYMES, que congregó en Ciudad de Panamá a autoridades de los países miembros del Proyecto de Integración y Desarrollo de Mesoamérica (PM) para intercambiar experiencias, buenas prácticas y lecciones aprendidas sobre las políticas y estrategias necesarias para el fortalecimiento de estas empresas. “El alto porcentaje de micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (mipymes) existente en América Latina y el Caribe nos obliga a considerar este univers…

A competitiveness index for the regions of a country

This article, which forms part of a comprehensive research projecton measuring the level of competitiveness, sets out a proposal fordeveloping an index to measure the competitiveness of the regions of acountry. The aim is to develop a new approach to competitiveness, bymeasuring how resources and capacities are managed in a given regionof a country, to generate a sustained increase in business productivity andthe well-being of its population. The following pillars of the competitivenessof regions are identified: (i); government and institutions; (ii); economicdevelopment; (iii); productive inf…

Policies for competitiveness

The progress made by the countries of the region in their stabilization processes has led policy-makers and entrepreneurs to pay increasing attention to the competitiveness of production activities and the factors and policies that determine it. The stability attained has clearly revealed the levels of some real variables which were hard to quantify in conditions of extreme price variations. This greater transparency of the market conditions, together with the growing competition resulting from the processes of greater trade openness, has brought out the strengths and weaknesses of the region&…

On Visit to Germany, Alicia Bárcena Calls For Taking Advantage of Investment Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

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 …

Visit of Mr. Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China