Tanto en los estudios de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) como en los realizados por la Oficina Regional de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO, por sus siglas en inglés) había quedado de manifiesto la preocupación por los efectos de la volatilidad de los precios internacionales en las cadenas de valor de granos básicos en Centroamérica, situación que dio origen a esta investigación.
En este documento se sistematizan los principales hallazgos sobre el funcionamiento de los mercados del frijol y el maíz en cinco países c…
Business services have been one of the fatest growing export areas in emerging economies over the past decade. The spread of information and communication technologies and the rise in trade liberalization have facilitated the global unbundling and offshoring of services activities from advanced to developing countries, including those in Latin America. This offshoring has gradually evolved into more sophisticated forms of business process outsourcing. Several countries in the region are now in the process of further upgrading their services exports to participate in knowledge process outsourci…
Scant empirical evidence is available on how the Latin American and Caribbean region participates in global value chains (GVCs) and what drives this process. Frequent questions in this connection are: How has the spread of information and communications technologies and free trade agreements facilitated the region’s participation in GVCs? To what extent do small firms participate in GVCs? What learning mechanisms and production and technological feedbacks operate in different types of GVCs? How can countries and firms take advantage of upgrading processes in GVCs? What role do policies play to…
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