Foreword

At its thirty-fourth session, held in San Salvador in August 2012, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) examined the obstacles and challenges of development in Central America and the Dominican Republic. This book follows on from these reflections. It is based on the analytical framework that ECLAC put forward in Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development, where it was argued that the goal of development with equality in the region required far-reaching transformations in its economic structure. The present book also confirms the commitment of ECLAC to the systematic preparation of exhaustive studies on long-term trends in the subregion’s development pattern, the most significant antecedent being the document “Centroamérica: el camino de los noventa”, published in 1993 by the Commission’s subregional headquarters in Mexico.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development

Countries: Dominican Republic