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ECLAC Books

A series of monographs that examine, in a regional scope, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC)'s outlook in different areas. Since 2014, this series merged with the series "ECLAC Notes". Titles in this series are grouped in four subseries: Economic development, social development, sustainable development and planning for development.

ISSN (online): 24119385
Language: English, Spanish
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/1032d778-en-es

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El Nuevo Paradigma Productivo y Tecnológico

La Necesidad de Políticas para la Autonomía económica de las Mujeres
Dec 2014
Book
United Nations
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Inestabilidad y Desigualdad

La Vulnerabilidad del Crecimiento en America Latina y el Caribe
Dec 2014
Book
United Nations
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Structural Change and Growth in Central America and the Dominican Republic

An Overview of Two Decades, 1990-2011
Dec 2014
Book
United Nations

This publication looks at changes that have occurred with the production structure, trade and society in Central America and the Dominican Republic, and how they have influenced the countries’ growth trajectories. One of the conclusions it reaches is that the subregion overall has enjoyed faster economic growth than the rest of Latin America over the two decades examined, 1990-2011, which has helped to raise incomes and living standards. Yet this progress falls far short of what is needed, given the high levels of poverty and indigence and the glaring inequalities suffered by much of the population in Central America and the Dominican Republic.

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Global Value Chains and World Trade

Prospects and Challenges for Latin America
Sep 2014
Book
United Nations

The analysis of how Latin American and Caribbean economies participate in different segments of GVCs is at the heart of the current work agenda of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, which focuses on how structural change and productivity gains can promote economic development with equality. This volume builds on the relevant literature and suggests that the movement of firms to higher value added activities in GVCs requires them to step up their innovation efforts and develop new products and processes. Success in improving market shares and value added will depend, however, on which firms innovate most. Hence, innovation is a necessary but insufficient for increasing value added and market shares. Evidence suggests that since the 2008 economic crisis, the participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks has increased.

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Strengthening Value Chains as an Industrial Policy Instrument

Methodology and Experience of ECLAC in Central America
Aug 2014
Book
United Nations

In this book the recent experience of ECLAC in the design of industrial policy and technical support to the governments of two Central American countries, El Salvador and Guatemala, is presented. A complete approach was followed to identify in detail, the constraints faced by each link in the value chain. Intervention strategies for strengthening the value chains that showed a participating character (public-private) and drive structural change in the countries of the region through increased productivity and value added, with special emphasis on small producers.

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Latin America's Emergence in Global Services

A New Driver of Structural Change in the Region?
Aug 2014
Book
United Nations
Business services have been one of the fastest 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. The empirical and analytical insights in this volume document how several countries in Latin America have entered the offshore services sector both through the attraction of multinational companies and the internationalization of domestic service suppliers. The future of the offshore services sector in Latin America will depend on its ability to upgrade its knowledge - and skill-intensive product offerings. This will call for the development of domestic technical capabilities, the adoption of renewed industrial policies, the promotion of backward and forward linkages, and the continued upgrading of human capital and information technology-integrated manufacturing.
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Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

Time for Progress towards Equality
Dec 2013
Book
Sandra Huenchuan
This publication aims to contribute to the research, analysis and design of proposals for the social protection of older persons. It develops a new conceptual approach and uses various indicators for its assessment in the areas of social security, health and social services. All human beings must be able to avail themselves of equal rights, without discrimination, and these rights must be enforced through serious, strategic and sustainable commitments which accommodate both present and long-term challenges. Only then will it be possible to develop an approach which includes each and every citizen and contributes to their well-being and security, so that they can make full use of their capacities, regardless of their age or economic activity.
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Protección Social Inclusiva en América Latina

Una Mirada Integral, Un Enfoque de Derechos
May 2013
Book
Simone Cecchini and Rodrigo Martínez
En este libro se examinan los principales debates en curso sobre la protección social y los programas de transferencias con corresponsabilidad, se identifica el papel que se les asigna y se consideran los elementos conceptuales, las necesidades y los desafíos que será preciso acometer para consolidar sistemas integrales de protección social en América Latina. En este marco, los autores plantean que estos sistemas deben ser universales en su cobertura, solidarios en su financiamiento y, fundamentalmente, igualitarios en las garantías que establecen como derechos ciudadanos. La ciudadanía en su conjunto se transforma así en sujeto de las políticas de protección y se logra una visión integral en las políticas sociales que combina como principios complementarios la focalización como instrumento y la universalidad como fin.
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Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America

A Comprehensive, Rights-based Approach
May 2013
Book
Simone Cecchini and Rodrigo Martínez
This publication examines the main debates under way on social protection and co-responsibility transfer programmes. It identifies the role played by these programmes and considers the conceptual elements, needs and the challenges that will have to be overcome to consolidate comprehensive social protection systems in Latin America. The authors argue that these should be solidarity-based systems that provide universal coverage and are essentially egalitarian in the guarantees established as citizens' rights. Citizenship as a whole is thus becoming part of protection policies as the region moves towards all-encompassing social policies that combine the complementary principles of targeting as the instrument and universality as the end.
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The Changing Nature of Asian-Latin American Economic Relations

Apr 2013
Book
United Nations

This book aims to document the growing investment and trade relations between Latin America and Asia, as well as some of their imbalances. It also provides several examples on how to upgrade trans-Pacific economic relations. It is offered to the Asian and Latin American policymaking, academic and business communities, as a contributioon to bridging the gaps in our knowledge of economic relations between the two regions.

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Information and Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Development of Technologies and Technologies for Development
Sep 2011
Book
United Nations

The countries of the region have substantially progressed with large-scale application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to varied aspects of economic and social development: the installation of digital infrastructure, modernization of public administration, digitalization of economic processes to enhance productivity as well as the quality of education and health care, and natural disaster management. Rapid evolution turned ICTs into a real solution for the development agenda. In the effort to use ICT efficiently for development, it is important to bear in mind that these technologies are not an end in thsemselves. Should ICTs be the essential element in the approach applied by information societies to development, or should the different aspects of development rather guide the way this technological revolution is harnessed?

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Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies

Sep 2011
Book
United Nations

The book sets out the framework of rights-based social protection policies and how they apply to the particular situation of the elderly population and looks at the status of older persons in terms of income security, access to health and inclusive environments. It also examines the impacts of population ageing on social protection systems —pensions, health and social services— and gives a general overview of the state of play of older persons’ rights in national legislations and public policies implemented in the region. The publication concludes with a summary of the main challenges that population ageing poses to the building of democratic and inclusive societies and emphasizes the need to move forward in adapting policy responses to the demographic panorama of the coming decades.

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Modeling Public Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Sep 2011
Book
United Nations

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) have formed a partnership to promote a regional network of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modellers that facilitates the exchange of analytical findings, techniques and data, with the ultimate objective of better serving policymakers in policy formulation. The regional meetings of CGE modellers, held annually in a different country of the region, have been instrumental in promoting interregional transfer of analytical technologies and in bringing the region closer to international best practices. This book contains a selection of studies discussed in past annual regional meetings on modelling.

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