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(4 September 2013) Caribbean countries suffered greatly during the international crisis in recent years, and therefore need to develop integration based on a new development paradigm that is better able to tackle such challenges, stated Winston Dookeran, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, at a lecture today in ECLAC.
At the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, Minister Dookeran gave a lecture on "A New Frontier for Caribbean Convergence: Integration without Borders" to an audience made up of a…
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(4 de septiembre, 2013) Los países del Caribe han sufrido duros efectos tras la crisis internacional de los últimos años y por ello necesitan fomentar una integración basada en un nuevo paradigma de desarrollo para hacerles frente, señaló hoy Winston Dookeran, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Trinidad y Tabago, durante una conferencia en la CEPAL.
El ministro Dookeran ofreció en la sede central de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, la conferencia titulada "La creación de un nuevo espacio de convergencia en el Caribe: integ…
Este documento se refiere a un estudio de caso de la cadena de suministro de las flores en Colombia. La mayoría de los análisis se refiere al principal mercado para las flores colombianas, es decir, el mercado de Estados Unidos. El informe comienza con un diagnóstico de la cadena de suministro en el sector de las exportaciones corte flores en Colombia y tiene en cuenta los principales componentes del análisis de propuestas contenido en la Hoja de ruta para mejorar el intercambio de información en las cadenas internacionales de suministro, plantilla de Estudios Regionales de Zografo…
The organic food market in the United States has shown impressive growth rates since the passage of legislation to regulate the market in the early 2000s. Rapidly increasing consumer demand for organic products has led to significant organic market expansion, with double-digit annual sales growth rates for some product categories. The increasing demand to import certain organic products from international sources presents an interesting trade potential for exporters from Latin America and the Caribbean. In order to guard the integrity of the domestic organic market, the United States has deter…
(22 August 2013) Over the past decade, China has become a key partner for Latin America and the Caribbean. Trade between the region and the Asian country increased 22 fold between 2000 and 2012, albeit with a deficit for Latin American countries.
Speaking at the opening of the seminar Doing business with China: the Latin American experience, at the Santiago headquarters, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said "It is important to open a debate on how to improve the quality of relations between Latin America and China"…
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(22 de agosto, 2013) Durante la última década, China se ha convertido en un socio clave para América Latina y el Caribe. El comercio entre el país asiático y la región se ha multiplicado por 22 entre los años 2000 y 2012, siempre con déficit para los países latinoamericanos.
"Es importante iniciar un debate sobre la forma de mejorar la calidad de las relaciones entre América Latina y China", dijo la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, durante la inauguración del seminario Haciendo negocios con China: …
During this decade, Latin America's economic and trade relations with Asian countries have grown considerably, and this is reflected in the figures and the rise in the number of trade agreements included between countries of the two regions. However, these links still feature asymmetries that remain a challenge, particularly for Latin American countries.
In this context, this week the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold two seminars at its headquarters in Santiago, Chile, both opened by the Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena.
On Wednesday 21 August will t…
Durante la década más reciente, las relaciones económicas y comerciales de América Latina con los países asiáticos han mostrado un crecimiento importante, que se evidencia tanto en las cifras como en el aumento de acuerdos comerciales suscritos entre países de ambas regiones. Sin embargo, estos vínculos aún presentan asimetrías, las cuales siguen siendo un desafío, especialmente para los países latinoamericanos.
En este contexto, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) realizará esta semana dos seminarios en su sede de Santiago de Chile, los cuales serán inaugurados por s…
(5 de agosto, 2013) La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) pone a partir de hoy a disposición de sus lectores en internet una nueva edición de Revista CEPAL, principal publicación académica del organismo de las Naciones Unidas.
En su número 110, Revista CEPAL incluye investigaciones de destacados especialistas internacionales sobre la economía de Cuba, las sinergias entre género y medio ambiente, y la influencia que ha tenido China en el desarrollo del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN), entre otros temas.
En el artículo "Determinantes y restricciones…
In the face of weak global growth in major export markets the Caribbean economies have underperformed. The situation is much more severe among service producers1 which have suffered the decline in tourist arrivals and offshore banking services. The goods producers have benefited from the commodity boom and have tended to show more robust growth. The expectations for 2013 are that growth will be positive in the region with the service producers growing at 1.5per cent and the goods producers at 3.6per cent. This performance will depend heavily on improved performances in the major export markets…
This article examines the impact of organizational and absorptive capacities
and networking on the performance of Argentine software and IT services firms,
within an evolutionary theoretical framework. The models estimated show that
innovation outcomes depend on quality management, the existence of research and
development (R&D) staff and on occupying intermediate positions in the network
architecture. Firms' economic performance cannot be assessed using a single set of indicators: whereas productivity is explained by the qualifications of human resources
and employment growth by R&am…
Bajo un marco teórico evolucionista, se estudia la repercusión de las capacidades organizacionales y de absorción y de las vinculaciones en el desempeño de firmas argentinas de software y servicios informáticos. Los modelos estimados denotan que los resultados de innovación dependen de la gestión de calidad, de la existencia de equipos de investigación y desarrollo (I+D) y de posiciones intermedias en la red de vinculaciones. El desempeño económico no puede abordarse sobre la base de un mismo conjunto de indicadores. Mientras que la productividad se explica por la calificación de los recursos …
This study analyses how far the strong expansion of Argentine exports since
2003 has been due simply to favourable external conditions and how industrial
manufactures have behaved. It finds that the country's pattern of international
specialization has not greatly altered at the major category level, but that both
primary products and manufactures of agricultural origin, which account for much of
the trade surplus, have undergone significant changes in composition. In addition,
regional trade has consolidated and traditional partners such as the European Union
and the United States have b…
This paper examines the extent to which China's entry into the World Trade
Organization (WTO) in 2001 and subsequent surge in global exports affected the
composition of trade between the United States and Mexico through 2009. The
authors found that China's entry had a significant impact on the trade relations
between these two North American countries, replacing and displacing many of the
export strongholds in place before China joined the WTO and after the first stage
of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1994-2000). Based on this
research, the authors offer a variety …
This paper explores the impact of the terms of trade on output fluctuations in
Colombia, a developing country where as much as 62% of export earnings come
from just four commodities: oil (42%), coal (14%), coffee (5%), and nickel (1%). This
research was prompted by: the particular role of short-run fluctuations in developing
economies, the fact that the Colombian terms of trade are procyclical, and the
discussion on economic policies towards sterilization of the effects of commodity
prices. Following time series analysis for the period 1994 -2011, robust evidence was
found indicating that arou…
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