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Review of Caribbean economic and social performance in the 1980's and 1990's
(ECLAC, 1999-11-30)
Introduction The integration of the world economy gathered momentum in the mid-1980s and continued during the 1990s, through increased trade and financial flows around the world, and the establishment and strengthening ...
Tax performance and reform in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
(ECLAC, 1999-06-01)
Introduction
Based on the evidence of the last few decades, it is widely
accepted that the State can be an obstacle to development. The corollary to this, of course, is that public policy can play a pivotal role in ...
Opportunities for convergence and regional cooperation: Unity Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2010-02)
Compared with 2003-2007, which was the most favourable period the world and regional economies had seen in 40 years, the outlook for the future is less encouraging. In the early 2010s the world economy and global trade ...
Labour markets, worker protection and lifelong learning in a global economy: experiences and perspectives of Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2008-04)
Despite the expansion of the world economy in recent years, the employment situation remains uncertain, with a high percentage of the labour force unemployed or engaged in occupations that do not enable workers to escape ...
Development cycles, political regimes and international migration: Argentina in the 20th century
(ECLAC, 2003)
At the turn, of the twentieth century, a large number of Europeans -mainly Italians and Spaniards- left their homelands and headed to the distant southern shores of Argentina responding to the good economic opportunities, ...
Growth and reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s
(ECLAC, 2000-05)
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to shed some light on the connection between the growth performance in the 1990s and economic reforms in seventeen Latin American and Caribbean countries. It presents a classification of ...
Globalization and development
(ECLAC, 2002-04-15)
Introduction The process that has come to be known as globalization .i.e., the progressively greater influence being exerted by worldwide economic, social and cultural processes over national or regional ones— is ...
International financial reform: a broad agenda
(ECLAC, 1999-10)
Abstract This paper argues that the agenda for international financial reform must be broadened in at least two senses. First of all, it should go beyond the issues of financial prevention and resolution, to those associated ...
¿Es correcto vincular la política social a la informalidad en México?: una prueba simple de las premisas de esta hipótesis
(CEPAL, 2009-01)
Levy (2008) ha sugerido que la expansión de programas sociales no focalizados podría provocar un aumento de la informalidad económica en países como México. Sin embargo, esta hipótesis parte del supuesto de que existen ...