En esta publicación se examina la forma en que la financiación de la deuda externa ha evolucionado en las últimas tres décadas. Se remonta 30 años y se analiza la trayectoria de la región de América Latina y el Caribe desde la singular perspectiva del acceso a los mercados financieros internacionales. Como el título indica, esta trayectoria ha sido una montaña rusa, con muchos altibajos, y momentos de angustia y pánico.
Los acontecimientos de las últimas tres décadas, tal como se describen en este libro, indican que un acceso más amplio y más barato a los mercados internacionales de capital pu…
This article examines commercial bank lending strategies for micro-enterprises and
small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in Mexico, and the factors that promote
or hinder lending in this segment. With this in mind, in 2011 a detailed survey was
conducted of commercial banks operating in Mexico. Although credit to microenterprises
and smes still represents a small share of the loan portfolio, the survey
results point to growing interest in broadening it. Three different business models
were identified, with major differences in strategies for offering financial services to
this segment of en…
The eclac-Climate Impacts Assessment Model (CIAM) is a modelling platform that
has been created to assess the economic consequences of climate change in the
Caribbean. The model can be freely accessed, downloaded and even modified.
The version available is a full-fledged model which can readily be used to conduct
simulation exercises. This paper provides a general description of the model and
an illustrative simulation exercise. Our results from this exercise highlight the fact
that the Caribbean is a highly vulnerable region where climate change is expected
to generate sizeable and negative e…
This article explores the connection between labour market segregation and
motherhood wage penalties in Argentina across the formal and informal sectors. It
uses ordinary least square and quantile regression estimation strategies and deploys
Blinder-Oaxaca and Ñopo decompositions to identify sources of wage differences.
The finding is that there is strong evidence of labour market segmentation and that
motherhood wage penalties differ substantively across the sectors and between
different wage quantiles. In particular, formal-sector working mothers do not
experience wage penalties, while infor…
Working from home is an option that differs from other forms of employment. This
type of employment is driven not only by globalization and outsourcing, but also by
unequal gender relationships within the home. Two multi-logistic regressions were
used to determine how the distribution of in-home working arrangements differs by
sex and by male/female age range, level of education, marital status and degree of
urbanization of the place of residence. The results suggest that these characteristics
have a differential influence on men's and women's employment decisions. The
results also i…
Regional and productive inequality may stem from the agricultural modernization
process, in which some agents are able to incorporate and absorb technological
content, while others are excluded, not only from the innovative organizational
environment, but also from learning processes and the dissemination of new
production techniques and knowledge. This paper analyses family farming, by
making comparisons in regional terms and by groups of producers using high,
medium and low technology. It also calculates the productive inequality index (Gini
coefficient of gross income) of the north, north-e…
Previous studies about the relationship between the cyclical components of Mexico's
output and unemployment suggest that it closely resembles that found in the
economy of the United States of America. This would indicate that the dynamics
between output and labour markets in the two economies are rather similar. However,
these estimates are puzzling for they do not correspond to a characterization made
to Mexico's labour market. Using a methodology first proposed by Clark (1989),
we find that the correlation between the transitory components of output and
unemployment is much lower t…
28 Nov 2013, 00:00 - 10 Oct 2025, 13:41
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Nota informativa
El XXVI Seminario regional de política fiscal es organizado por la Secretaría Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), a través de la División de Desarrollo Económico, con el apoyo del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), el Banco Mundial, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE), y el auspicio del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo de Alemania, BMZ y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID).
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Comunicado de prensa
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(21 November 2013) The 13th Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean began today in Brasilia with a call for the regional integration agenda to be strengthened to make progress towards sustainable and inclusive development based on equality.
As she opened the Conference, which is being held on Thursday and Friday in the Brazilian capital, the host country's Minister of Planning, Budget and Management, Miriam Belchior, stated that integration is a strategic requireme…
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(21 de noviembre, 2013) La XIII Conferencia de Ministros y Jefes de Planificación de América Latina y el Caribe comenzó hoy en Brasilia con un llamado a fortalecer la agenda de la integración regional para avanzar hacia un desarrollo sustentable, incluyente y con la igualdad en el centro.
Al inaugurar esta cita, que se celebra este jueves y viernes en la capital brasileña, la Ministra de Planificación, Presupuesto y Gestión del país anfitrión, Miriam Belchior, destacó que la integración es un requ…
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Assista ao vídeo com a messagem da Secretária Executiva da CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena. Veja a galería de fotos
(21 de novembro de 2013) A XIII Conferência de Ministros e Chefes de Planejamento da América Latina e do Caribe começou hoje, em Brasília, com um apelo para fortalecer a agenda da integração regional para avançar em direção a um desenvolvimento sustentável, inclusivo e com a igualdade no centro.
Ao abrir este encontro, que se realiza nesta quinta e sexta-feira, na capital brasileira, a Ministra do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão do país anfitrião, Miriam Belchior destacou que …
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Noticias
Experts from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a Regional Consultation on Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean on 14-15 November 2013, at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
During the event specialists, policy makers and practitioners from Latin America and the Caribbean dialogued on the dimensions of inclusive growth, its conceptualization and measuring, as well as the policies that can be put in place to combine strong output growth with a more even distribution of …
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Expertos de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE) participaron en la Consulta Regional sobre Crecimiento Inclusivo en América Latina y el Caribe, efectuado el 14 y 15 de noviembre de 2013 en la sede central de la CEPAL en Santiago, Chile.
En el evento especialistas, hacedores de políticas y profesionales de América Latina y el Caribe debatieron sobre las dimensiones del crecimiento inclusivo, su conceptualización y medición, y el tipo de políticas necesarias para alcanzar un crecimiento robusto y…