The region's changeover from a shortage of external funds to a relatively plentiful supply of such resources at a time when an effort is being made to liberalize its trade and financial sectors raises a number of questions regarding the effect of this phenomenon on the growth of Latin American exports. In an effort to answer these questions, the author examines a number of different attempts to arrive at a quantitative evaluation of the relationship between exchange and trade policies and the region's export performance in the 1980s. The main conclusions drawn from this analysis are …
Most studies of the region's economy say little or nothing about the status of its environment and natural resources; few references are made to the environmental quality of population centres or to fluctuations in natural resource stocks, especially of renewable resources, despite their crucial importance for the region's development options. The no more than moderate pace of the region's absorption of technical progress, the intensification of its international trade and the declining value of the region's products in the international marketplace have all brought increas…
Foreword Four years ago, the secretariat submitted to the States members of ECLAC the document entitled Changing Production Patterns with Social Equity. It offered general guidelines for the development of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, including, in particular, the proposal that production should become more internationally competitive, not only in order to increase exports but also to achieve efficient import substitution. At the same time, the document offered a framework for subsequent activities of the Commission revolving around the study of a number of rel…
Presentación Hace ya cuatro años, la Secretaría entregó a los gobiernos de los Estados miembros de la CEPAL el documento titulado Transformación productiva con equidad. Este proponía orientaciones generales para el desarrollo de los países de América Latina y el Caribe, entre las que se destacaban aquellas orientadas a que la actividad productiva adquiriera competitividad internacional, tanto para aumentar las exportaciones como para lograr una eficiente sustitución de importaciones. Al mismo tiempo, ese documento ofrecía un marco de referencia para las actividades posteriores de la institució…
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