(*) Arturo O'Connell es Consultor de la División de Estadística y Proyecciones Económicas de la CEPAL. La última versión de este trabajo terminó de efectuarse en septiembre de 2000, antes de concretarse el acuerdo para la industria automotriz y el reciente referido a la definición de metas macroeconómicas comunes para los países miembros del MERCOSUR. Las opiniones expresadas en este documento, que no ha sido sometido a revisión editorial, son de exclusiva responsabilidad del autor y pueden no coincidir con las de la Organización. Resumen El MERCOSUR, la unión aduanera esta…
Abstract This paper focuses on creating a basic awareness of the new economic coherence, which has been provoked by the introduction of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It is based on methods of traditional Industrial Economics (bricks-and-mortar economy). The paper shall endeavor to show the differences that exist between Industrial- and Digital Economics, but shall also show that we do not need to burn the old textbooks. Nevertheless there is an urgent need to rewrite them, in a sense of refocusing. Starting from the new basic conditions of the Digital Economy, which …
The need to devise an appropriate mechanism for the meaningful participation of smaller economies in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA); has been recognized since the beginning of the process of integration in the Americas and was articulated in the Plan of Action and Declaration of the Summit of the Americas, held in Miami in December 1995 (1); . Since then, the San Jose Declaration (2); reiterated the commitment of the countries of the hemisphere to ensure the full participation of the smaller economies in the FTAA and increase their level of development.
The declaration states that …
O livro é uma coletânea de textos que resume os principais resultados obtidos em diversos trabalhos contratados no âmbito do Convênio CEPAL/IPEA com o objetivo de apresentar, de forma sistematizada, vários aspectos envolvidos no processo de formação e consolidação do MERCOSUL, tanto no plano interno quanto no que se refere a sua relação com países de outras regiões. Os nove capítulos são apresentados em duas partes. A primeira está associada a temas relacionados com o processo negociador e a questões mais diretamente vinculadas às relações comerciais. A segunda se concentra em temas financeiro…
Prólogo Este libro es el resultado de un proyecto de investigación desarrollado por la CEPAL con el apoyo de la Fundación Ford. El texto incluye cinco artículos, enfocados al análisis de economías emergentes, generalmente calificadas como casos 'exitosos' en los informes de las instituciones financieras internacionales y en la prensa financiera, durante episodios iniciados con una oferta de fondos externos muy abundantes. Incluimos los casos de Chile, la República de Corea y México en sus años críticos de los noventa, ya Chile con su profunda crisis de los setenta, y los contras…
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This book is the result of a project developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);, with support from the Ford Foundation. The text encompasses five articles analyzing emerging economies that were generally rated as successful by international financial institutions and the financial press during episodes characterized by a broad supply of external funds. We include the cases of Chile, Korea, and Mexico in the critical years of the 1990s and Chile in the deep crisis of the 1970s. All these economies were praised for their efficient pub…
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