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Concessions and road and rail transport optimization
(1999-04)
The Latin American railways faced serious competition from another means of land transport for the first time in the 1930s, and one of the results of this was a significant loss of income from the transport of products of ...
New directions for development banking in the Caribbean: financing to take advantage of unlimited supplies of labour skills and entrepreneurship
(ECLAC, 2007-05)
Abstract In the early 1980s, within the wider structural adjustment and liberalisation framework, financial sector reform were initiated to allow greater facility of market forces in the pricing and allocation of financial ...
Economic profiles of Caribbean countries
(ECLAC, 1999-10-18)
Introduction
With its programme of assistance to the Caribbean, the Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean has prepared
these economic profiles for 26 ...
Research on policies and institutions to support small and medium scale enterprise in the Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago report
(ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, 2009-12-28)
The Government of Trinidad and Tobago continues to provide support to SMEs in order to enhance their
international competitiveness. The increasing effects of globalization and the reality of several trade
agreements ...
The impact of privatisation on the banking sector in the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2001-11-30)
Introduction With the failure of the import-substituting industrialisation policies of the post-war period, Caribbean countries shifted to an export-promotion strategy in the 1980s. Export promotion inevitably demanded ...
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 ...
Directions for the reform process in the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 1998-03-31)
Summary
This document outlines the recent economic performance of the Caribbean countries and some of the salient issues and problems confronting policy making at this time. A discussion on trading relationships and the ...
The ECLAC associate member countries: meeting challenges and new opportunities of globalisation
(ECLAC, 2007-07-20)
This paper will examine development challenges and new opportunities arising out of globalization in the tourism and financial services sectors, respectively in the ECLAC associate member countries.
Data, algorithms and policies: Redefining the digital world
(ECLAC, 2018-04-18)
The convergence of the physical and digital worlds is shaping an ecosystem whose dynamics are redefining the economic and social development model.
This document analyses the Internet of Things, blockchain and artificial ...