PUBLICATIONS

Author: ECLAC

This publication is an updated and more detailed version of a document prepared by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the visit of the President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, to Brazil in April 2010 for a meeting of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russian Federation, India and the People’s Republic of China). The document focuses on recent developments in trade between China and the Latin American and Caribbean region with respect to countries, sectors and goods, as well as Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region.

Editors: Mariana Balboni, Sebastián Rovira and SebastiánVergara

This book is the final report of the ECLAC-IDRC project Observatory for the Information Society in Latin American and the Caribbean - OSILAC, which aims at understanding the dynamics of the ICT evolution and revolution and producing evidence on its potential to promote socio-economic development.

Author: Rodolfo Minzer; Estudios y Perspectivas series Nº 128, ECLAC Subregional headquarters in Mexico

This document seeks to identify the conditions and mechanisms that would improve the performance of micro-finance institutions and their ability to target microcredit, thereby contributing to the well-being of the population using such services.

Editor: Jorge Martínez Pizarro

The aim of this book is to help increase the skills and capacities of those responsible for devising migration policies and programmes, so as to integrate the issue into national development strategies. The book brings together studies produced for the Workshop on Strengthening National Capacities in International Migration Management - "Looking towards the future: new trends, issues and approaches”, which was held at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, from 7 to 9 September 2010 as the result of the first year’s activities of the United Nations Development Account project “Strengthening national capacities to deal with international migration: Maximizing development benefits and minimizing negative impact”, designed and coordinated by ECLAC for joint implementation with the other United Nations regional commissions.

Auhtor: ECLAC

This collection includes the transcript and audio-visual reproduction (on a CD) of some of the main lectures given at the ECLAC headquarters in 2010. It includes presentations by Ángel Gurría, Secretary-General of OECD, José Miguel Insulza, Secretary-General of OAS, Aldo Ferrer, Argentine economist, politician and diplomat, Maria da Conceição Tavares, Brazilian economist and academic, and Álvaro García Linera, Vice-President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia..

Authors: ECLAC-UNICEF

This joint ECLAC-UNICEF publication, which was supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is an update of a series of previous publications of comparative studies of child mortality trends and the main differences within Latin American countries, and of the database for each of the region’s 20 countries.

Authors: Teresa Ter-Minassian and Juan Pablo Jiménez, Macroeconomics of Development series Nº 112

This paper discusses how fiscal decentralization is affecting macro-economic management in the main Latin American countries; and which reforms in the existing intergovernmental fiscal systems of those countries could help strengthen their fiscal sustainability, minimize the risk of pro-cyclicality at all levels of government, and create “fiscal space” for active countercyclical responses to economic shocks.

Authors: Luz Ángela Rodríguez, María Elisa Bernal and Luis Mauricio Cuervo; Políticas Sociales series Nº 170

This publication is a joint effort from ECLAC’s Social Development Division and its Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), and seeks to find out the impact of socially innovative experiments on local economic development in the territories concerned.

Author: ECLAC

This report offers a regional overview of FDI in 2010, describes the presence China is beginning to build up as an investor in the region and analyses business strategies in the telecommunications and software sectors.

Authors: ECLAC, OAS and ILO

This document analyses the links for coordinating joint actions in employment and social protection. The focus is on transfer programmes with co-responsibility, which are concerned with providing the most vulnerable with access to a single, comprehensive and growing system of social protection by providing transfers subject to co-responsibilities on the part of beneficiaries.