PUBLICATIONS
Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
2009
(May 2010)
Author: Production, Productivity and Management
Division
A regional overview of foreign direct investment flows in the
region in 2009, including case studies of the automobile and iron
and steel industries. It also examines foreign investment of
transnational companies from the region (trans-latins) over the
past five years.
The Popular Republic
of China and Latin America and the
Caribbean: Towards a Strategic Relationship
(April 2010)
Author: International Trade and Integration
Division
Graphic compendium on the recent evolution of trade between China
and Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of countries, sectors
and products, as well as Chinese foreign direct investment in the
region.
Advances in Access
and Use of Information and Communications
Technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean 2008-2010
(digital format only)
(April 2010)
Author: Information Society Programme
Advances and limitations in the access and use of ICTs in the
region, outlining the degree of progress in fulfilling the
commitments of the World Summit on the Information Society towards
2015.
Author: Population and Development(CELADE)
Three reports that track the progress, limitations and challenges of
implementing the Programme of Action of the International Conference
on Population and Development in the region over the past five years
and the conclusions and recommendations of the evaluation process on
the implementation of the Cairo Plan of Action in Latin America and
the Caribbean.
Economic Crisis and
Climate Change: Some Implications for the
Multilateral Trade System
(March 2010)
Author: Sebastián Herreros, International Trade
Series
The main types of trade-restrictive measures adopted or announced in
the world since the 2008-2009 economic crisis, including those
linked to climate change.
Study on the
Information on Violence against Women in Latin
America and the Caribbean
(March 2010)
Author: Lorena Fríes and Victoria Hurtado, Women
and Development Series
The results of research on the information available for creating
indicators on violence against women in the world and the region.
The analysis reveals the political and legal choices made in dealing
with this violence and its impact on the way it is recorded and data
generated from it.
Estimates of Social
Expenditure in Housing and Urban
Development in Some Countries of Latin America and the
Caribbean
(March 2010)
Author: Raquel Szalachman and María Paz Collinao,
Environment and Development Series
An examination of social expenditure in housing and urban
development in 11 countries in the region, with a comparative
analysis and the results of estimates per country.
Public Policies of the Information Society
in Latin America: One
Perspective?
(digital format only)
(March 2010)
Author: Massiel Guerra and Valeria Jordán,
Information Society Programme
The reasons for which ICTs are an objective of public policy,
illustrating the situation in the region through the gaps between
Latin America and Europe, as well as within a country.
Identification of the main elements that distinguish an ICT policy,
describing the degree of development in implementing these policies
in the region.
Challenges in the International Protection
of the Human Rights of
Older Persons
(digital format only) (March 2010)
Author: Luis Rodríguez-Piñero Royo, Projects
Documents Series
A review of the rights of older persons in international legislation
and a theoretical-normative proposal on the rights of specific
groups. Arguments in favor of adopting a conventional instrument and
creating a special rapporteur for these rights.
Social Institutional Framework in Latin
America
(March 2010)
Authors: Rolando Franco and Miguel Székely Pardo
(Coordinators), Projects Documents Series