PUBLICATIONS

Authors: Gustavo Ferro, Emilio Lentini and Carlos A. Romero. Project Document Nº 385

This document describes how the economics profession has practically tackled the problem of measuring and assessing efficiency in public service providers, particularly in terms of drinking water and sewerage.

Authors: Guillermo Sunkel, Daniela Trucco and Sebastián Möller, Políticas Sociales Series Nº 169

This analyses actual progress in the region’s countries in terms of incorporating technology into the school arena. This arose from the work of ECLAC, supported by the European Union, into incorporating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into education, which is one of the elements of the Alliance for the Information Society 2 (@LIS2) - Inclusive political dialogue and exchange of experiences.

Editors: María Nieves Rico, Carlos Maldonado Valera, Seminarios y Conferencias Series Nº 61s

Presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the links and tensions between the versatile reality of families and the major socio-economic and demographic challenges and changes, based on presentations given at the expert seminar “Study of Latin American families. Towards a linkage of diagnosis, legislation and policy”, organized by the ECLAC Social Development Division in Santiago, Chile, on 29 and 30 October 2009.

Author: Laura Calvelo, Población y Desarrollo Series Nº 98

Deals with changes in population dynamics and migration patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean that have emerged in the past 30 years and that have given rise to new requirements for international migration estimates.

Auhtor: Robert Feinberg, Studies and Perspectives Series Nº 9, ECLAC Washington Office

Global antidumping activity peaked in 2001, with 366 petitions initiated world-wide, and rapidly diminished to just 163 cases in 2007. With the onset of the current major world-wide recession, some observers feared that antidumping usage would climb dramatically; however, antidumping activity shows little change compared to previous years. Nevertheless, antidumping has largely become a problem of the developing world, both in terms of major importing country users and of targets.

Autors: José Durán Lima, Andrés Yáñez, Mariano Alvarez;
Manuales Series Nº 66

This handbook presents the design for a “Prototype Observatory of Trade and Integration in Central America”, initially set up for member countries of the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration. It also includes trade indicators and a first attempt at analysing the statistics from micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises. In summary, this is the advanced stage of the work carried out by various officials of the ECLAC Division of International Trade and Integration between 2005 and 2010.