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Structural Change and Growth in Central America and the Dominican Republic
An Overview of Two Decades, 1990-2011
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.
Global Value Chains and World Trade
Prospects and Challenges for Latin America
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.
La Integración de las Tecnologías Digitales en las Escuelas de América Latina y el Caribe
Una Mirada Multidimensional
Strengthening Value Chains as an Industrial Policy Instrument
Methodology and Experience of ECLAC in Central America
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.
Fortalecimiento de las Cadenas de Valor como Instrumento de la Política Industrial
Metodología y Experiencia de la Cepal en Centroamérica
Planificación, Prospectiva y Gestión Pública
Reflexiones para la Agenda de Desarrollo
Cambio Estructural y Crecimiento en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana
Un Balance de dos Décadas, 1990-2011
Latin America's Emergence in Global Services
A New Driver of Structural Change in the Region?
Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean
Time for Progress towards Equality
Protección Social Inclusiva en América Latina
Una Mirada Integral, Un Enfoque de Derechos
Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America
A Comprehensive, Rights-based Approach
The Changing Nature of Asian-Latin American Economic Relations
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.
Information and Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Development of Technologies and Technologies for Development
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?
Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies
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.
Modeling Public Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
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.
Fostering Economic Policy Coordination in Latin America
The REDIMA Approach to Escaping the Prisoner's Dilemma
This work aims to provide some useful elements for addressing specific issues related to coordinating policies among sovereign nations in a world undergoing globalization and subject to increasing uncertainty. It has a twofold objective: to provide clear positions regarding options for Latin American integration and to publicize the REDIMA experiment as well as the momentum behind it and the proposals issued through it. REDIMA is the acronym of the Spanish and Portuguese name of the Macroeconomic Dialogue Network implemented in Latin America by ECLAC in cooperation with the European Commission.
Structural Reforms, Productivity and Technological Change in Latin America
Profound structural reforms have moved Latin America and the Caribbean from closed state-dominated economies to ones that are more market-oriented and open to the rest of the world. This publication looks at the effects of these reforms in an effort to determine whether such expectations as growth increased productivity the creation of new jobs and greater equity have been fulfilled. Focusing on technological change the publication also examines the impact of the reforms on the process of innovation.
Investment and Economic Reform in Latin America
This book is a part of a project to study the economic reforms implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last two decades. This publication analyzes the investment process and attempts to link macroeconomic aspects to sectoral microeconomic and institutional factors. Thus it examines the impact of structural reform institutional change and market structures in conjunction with important legal and regulatory aspects. The book also contributes to the understanding of the investment process in the context of the economic reforms.