1 Mar 2002, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Foreword In contrast to its situation during the lost decade , in the 1990s the Latin American and Caribbean region regained its access to international capital markets. Its return to these markets, in combination with a commitment to achieving basic macroeconomic equilibria, was manifested in smaller fiscal deficits and lower inflation, but the region has recovered only part of the ground it had lost in terms of its pace of economic growth. Thus, the region's economies have not been growing fast enough to strengthen their labour markets or to reduce poverty significantly. …
1 Ene 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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El presente documento constituye un aporte de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) al primer Foro de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) y China, (Beijing, 8 y 9 de enero de 2015). El documento se compone de tres partes. En la primera parte se sintetizan los principales elementos del contexto económico internacional en que se inserta hoy América Latina y el Caribe. En la segunda, se presenta un breve panorama de las relaciones comerciales y de inversión entre la región y China. Finalmente, en la tercera parte se ofrecen algunas conclusiones y r…
1 Nov 2002, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Main Statistical Points GEF funding has proceeded in recent years primarily via the World Bank, UNDP and UNEP. It has provided approximately US$5m in funding for projects totaling approximately US$18m in value (therefore over 70% locally cofinanced). Total public expenditure (capital and recurrent) on environmental projects (as identified herein) has ranged between 0.15% to 0.21% of GDP over the period or approximately between US$2 to US$3 per capital. …
1 Abr 2003, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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This paper analyses the role assigned to foreign direct investment and transnational corporations in the ECLAC development project, examining the history of the institution and its most representative publications. With impressive continuity in its vision and policy recommendations, ECLAC has recognized the need for foreign investment as an aid for Latin American development, but has been cautious about its consequences. ECLAC has continually called for close scrutiny and regulation of the activities of transnational corporations. The main idea underlying these recommendations is that Latin Am…
1 Nov 2002, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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The objective of this study is to examine the evolution and characteristics of the financing for the nvironment in Brazil, in order to identify the advances and retreats after the Rio 92 Conference. Brazil has a very decentralized administration, composed of three independent levels of public administration: the federal government, 27 state governments, and more than 5000 municipios, or municipalities; all of them with specific environmental institutions. However, at the time of the completion of this report, there were no indicator…
1 Abr 2003, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Foreword Throughout the preparatory process for the World Summit on Sustainable Development and at the Summit itself, which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002, discussions were dominated by one central concern: the need to define and reach consensus on concrete, quantitative goals, with fixed deadlines for implementation, which were to supplement the Millennium Development Goals and facilitate progress towards an effective transition to sustainable development. P…