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Capital flows to Latin America: recent developments
(ECLAC, 2008-10-31)
The external environment has deteriorated sharply as a result of the spiraling financial turmoil, and has led to a weakening in commodity prices and fears of a worldwide recession. Latin America and the Caribbean's fastest ...
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 ...
Honduras: evolución económica durante 2005 y perspectivas para 2006
(CEPAL, 2006-08-14)
1. Rasgos generales de la evolución reciente En un entorno externo en general favorable, en 2005 la economía hondureña aumentó 4,1%, aunque por debajo del 5% del 2004. El desempeño del producto interno bruto (PIB) fue ...
Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2003
(ECLAC, 2003-12)
This document contains an analysis of and statistics on the economic performance of the region as a whole and of individual Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2003. As predicted by ECLAC in its midyear projections, ...
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 ...
Macroeconomic policies in times of crisis: options and perspectives
(ECLAC, 2009-08)
The global economic crisis has put an end to a period of six consecutive years of growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, growth on a scale that had not been seen for decades. This crisis is different from those which ...
Structural change and productivity growth 20 years later: old problems, new opportunities. Summary
(ECLAC, 2008-06)
IntroductionNearly 20 years ago, ECLAC put forward a proposal for structural change and productivity growth with social equity. At the time, the countries of the region were emerging from the severe crisis of the 1980s, ...
International asymmetries and the design of the International Financial System
(ECLAC, 2001-04)
Abstract This paper argues that the design of the international financial system should take into consideration three different problems that the current system faces: financial market instability; basic macroeconomic ...
Social dimensions of macroeconomic policy: report of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations
(ECLAC, 2001-12)
Introduction The social agenda is long-term in nature, in the sense that poverty alleviation along with a better distribution of income, wealth and opportunities are long-term goals. A sound macroeconomic policy, on the ...
Latin America and the Caribbean: policies to improve linkages with the global economy
(CEPAL, 1995-04)
Foreword Four years ago, the secretariat submitted to the States members of ECLAC the document entitled Changing Production Patterns with Social Equity. It offered general guidelines for the development of the countries ...