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Capital Flows to Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Developments
(ECLAC, 2014-11)
For six years, the global economy has been driven by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policies of easy money. Liquidity has flowed from developed to developing economies, financing infrastructure and corporate investment and ...
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 ...
Biofuels potential in Guyana
(ECLAC, 2007-02)
Abstract
Guyana depends on imported fuel to meet the needs of its transport sector. In recent years, pricesof derivatives of petroleum have increased significantly, further widening the current account
deficit. In 2005, ...
Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2007
(ECLAC, 2007-12)
During much of 2007, the Latin American and Caribbean region witnessed a great deal of volatility in financial markets owing to uncertainty about the impact that the financial crisis in the United States could have on that ...
Global economic developments, 2000-2001
(ECLAC, 2002-01-02)
Executive Summary The global economy is experiencing a recession, which originated in the United States and is affecting developed and developing economies alike. Between the second and third quarter of 2001, the United ...
The evolution of world income inequality: assessing the impact of globalization
(ECLAC, 2001-12)
Abstract In the last two centuries (1800-2000) the world has seen an unprecedented increase in the capacity to create material wealth and undergo technical change. At the same time, this is also a period of large ...
Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2011
(ECLAC, 2012-02)
ECLAC projects growth of 4.3% for the Latin American and Caribbean economy in 2011, lower than the rate in 2010 when the region was rebounding from the impacts of the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009. The forecast ...
Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2010-2011: The region in the decade of the emerging economies
(ECLAC, 2011-10)
In mid-2011, conditions deteriorated in the industrialized
economies. Early in the year, instability in North Africa
combined with other factors to push up fuel prices. Then,
in March, the tragedy of the earthquake, ...
Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2012-2013
(ECLAC, 2013-08)
In the face of weak global growth in major export markets the Caribbean economies have underperformed. The situation is much more severe among service producers1 which have suffered the decline in tourist arrivals and ...
The small economies of Latin America and the Caribbean
(2001-08)
Population, natural resources and domestic market size have been the traditional components of the equation determining the wealth of nations, according to classical economists. The new lines of research opened up by ...