Creative industries have become a new engine of growth and development in the world economy. This dynamic sector, which ranges from traditional arts to multimedia, has been an important driver of innovation and productivity growth. The present study argues that the creative industries can become a pillar for economic diversification and export growth in the Caribbean. The study adds to the developing literature on the creative sector by evaluating export performance in the context of constraints as well as opportunities. The Caribbean creative sector possesses a number of advantages that are r…
At the global level, trade in services has been the most dynamic sector, with an average growth rate about double that in the primary and manufacturing sectors. However, the three activities have a completely different composition in terms of type of labour, services being the most skill-intensive. In Uruguay, the formation of human resources shows several weaknesses; which leads one to ask: Is Uruguay prepared to take advantage of the opportunities open in the global market? If not, what are the consequences? A simulation exercise was tried consisting of an increase in external demand for ski…
(*) Alfredo Calcagno and Sandra Manuelito, are Economic Affairs Officers with the Economic Projections Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Paper presented at the Seminar on the 'role of Central Bank Under-Dollarization', organized by the Central Bank of Ecuador, Quito, 22 and 23 March, 2001. The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization. Summary Latin America has had a great deal of exper…
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. …
This paper analyzes the relationship between the intensity of international trade flows and labor productivity for 28 industries in the five main economies in the region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) using the Arellano-Bond generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator. The results show that international trade flows contributed through various channels to labor productivity growth in the period 1990 to 2008. These channels, which have been developed in the theoretical literature, are export intensity (share of production exported), import penetration (share of domestic deman…
Representantes de los 33 países de América Latina y el Caribe reivindicaron el Foro de Desarrollo Sostenible como espacio indispensable para la integración y la cooperación regional en medio de la incertidumbre global, durante la Quinta Reunión del encuentro intergubernamental que fue inaugurado hoy por el Presidente de Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, la Vicesecretaria General de las Naciones Unidas, Amina Mohammed, y la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena.
La Quinta Reunión del Foro de los países de América Latina y el Caribe sobr…
The Caribbean is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, extreme weather events and other natural hazards. The subregion is also exposed to anthropogenic hazards, including petroleum and other industrial chemical spills, fires, and soil, air and water pollution. These hazards can result in loss of life and other health impacts, damage to infrastructure, social and economic disruptions and ecological degradation. To significantly reduce the negative effects of these hazards, it is important that key stakeholders, including national disaster management agencies, development partners,…
7 Abr 2021, 08:30 - 09:30
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
Este es un evento paralelo de la Vigésima reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la CEPAL, organizado por el DANE de Colombia.…
On the basis of a study on mortgage loan options available in
eight Latin American countries, this article identifies two pending tasks for most of the countries: the need to make long-term funds available to mitigate the risk of a mismatch of maturities and rates, and the need to harmonize profitability criteria for lenders with the criterion of access to credit for the low-income population. The paper recommends the creation of linkages between the housing finance market and the capital market through secondary mortgage markets, for which the housing
finance market must use instruments other…
13 - 14 Nov
2024, 07:00 - 13:30
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The overall objective of this technical assistance is to improve the technical capacity of staff and management of the Department of Gender Affairs, the Department of Statistics, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to collect, analyze, utilize and disseminate sex-disaggregated data in accordance with international standards and best practices.…
Costa Rica acogerá, del 7 al 9 de marzo de 2022, la quinta reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, en la que altas autoridades y representantes de gobiernos, del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas, instituciones internacionales, sector privado, academia y sociedad civil se darán cita para revisar los avances y desafíos de la implementación de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en la región.
El encuentro intergubernamental será inaugurado el lunes 7 de marzo a las 08:00 a.m. hora de Costa Rica (GMT-6) por Carlos Alvarado, Presidente de …
La tercera reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible será inaugurada oficialmente mañana miércoles 24 de abril en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago de Chile, con la participación de autoridades y delegaciones de todos los países de la región y de organismos de las Naciones Unidas.
Ya está confirmada la asistencia al encuentro -que se realiza del 22 al 26 de abril- de más de mil personas entre representantes de gobiernos, instituciones internacionales, sector privado, academia y sociedad civil.…
The purpose of the training is to reinforce participants’ knowledge of and capacity in the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks by drawing on the knowledge and practical experience of experts in member States for the benefits of all participants.…
La presente publicación corresponde a una versión especial que cubre las ediciones correspondientes a los años 1982 y 1983. La primera parte comprende indicadores socioeconomicos derivados (tasas de crecimiento, participaciones y coeficientes o proporciones), que representan una vision resumida de cada area de interes. En este conjunto de indicadores estan incluidos los que se emplean en las evaluaciones regionales periodicas de la Estrategia Internacional del Desarrollo. La segunda parte contiene series historicas en numeros absolutos, que corresponden, en general, a los anos 1960, 1965 y 197…
La primera parte comprende indicadores socioeconomicos derivados (tasas de crecimiento, participaciones y coeficientes o proporciones), que representan una vision resumida de cada area de interes. En este conjunto de indicadores estan incluidos los que se emplean en las evaluaciones regionales periodicas de la Estrategia Internacional de Desarrollo. La segunda parte contiene series historicas que corresponden, en general, a los anos 1960, 1965 y 1970, y al periodo desde 1973 en adelante. La fecha de cierre de incorporacion de estadisticas para esta edicion del Anuario fue el mes de marzo de 19…
La primera parte comprende indicadores socioeconomicos derivados (tasas de crecimiento, participaciones y coeficientes o proporciones), que representan una vision resumida de cada area de interes. En este conjunto de indicadores estan incluidos los que se emplean en las evaluaciones regionales periodicas de la Estrategia Internacional de Desarrollo. La segunda parte contiene series historicas que corresponden, en general, a los anos 1960, 1965 y 1970, y al periodo desde 1972 en adelante. La fecha de cierre de incorporacion de estadisticas para esta edicion del Anuario fue el mes de marzo de 19…
La primera parte comprende indicadores socioeconomicos derivados (tasas de crecimiento, participaciones y coeficientes o proporciones), que representan una vision resumida de cada area de interes. En este conjunto de indicadores estan incluidos los que se emplean en las evaluaciones regionales periodicas de la Estrategia Internacional del Desarrollo y del Programa de Accion Regional. La segunda parte contiene series historicas que corresponden, en general, a los anos 1960, 1965, 1970 y 1975, y al periodo comprendido entre 1977 y 1983.…
Recent analytical work has focused on exchange-rate regimes and their general and specific consequences for growth and stability. Although significant progress has been made in formulating taxonomies of regimes, general consensus on which regimes are likely to prove optimal for given economies has proven elusive. In recent years, the five Andean economies have adapted a variety of exchange-rate regimes. Their experience appears to support the view that the most convenient exchange-rate regimes are those that afford policymakers sufficient freedom of maneuver to adjust their policies in r…