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Analyse de la substitution entre combustibles dans le secteur residentiel en Haïti
(CEPALC, 2005-08-12)
Du résumé: Depuis une quinzaine d'années, l'économie et la société d´ Haïti traversent une crise profonde qui se traduit par des déséquilibres macroéconomiques graves, par une grande pauvreté, par la faiblesse des moyens ...
The fiscal impact of trade liberalization and commodity price fluctuation: the case of Costa Rica, 1980-1998
(ECLAC, 2000-02-18)
Summary Following a period of economic growth, political stability and poverty reduction spanning two decades (1960-1979), Costa Rica experienced at the beginning of the 1980´s the worst recession in its most recent ...
Determinants of technological innovation in Argentina and Brazil
(2008-04)
This article analyses and compares the determinants of innovationin Argentina and Brazil, countries that have based their industrializationstrategies on import substitution. Probit regressions in which instrumentalvariables ...
New strategies of transnational corporations in Argentina
(1994-04)
This article analyses current trends as regards the role of transnational corporations in Argentine industry in the light of the structural changes taking place on the domestic, regional and international fronts, as compared ...
Modernization and foreign trade in the health services
(ECLAC, 2000-03)
Summary
This document examines the impact of modernization of the health system on foreign trade in health services during the period 1983-1999 and looks at future prospects in this area. It establishes linkages between ...
Flying geese or sitting ducks? Transnationals and industry in developing countries
(1993-12)
The constitution of a new international industrial order dominated by a core of large transnational corporations generally makes life more difficult for the great majority of developing countries because, since most are ...
The strategies of multinational companies in 1990s Argentina
(2002-04)
In the 1990s,Argentina received large amounts of foreign direct investment and the participation of multinational companies in the country's economy increased significantly. As during the import substitution industrialization ...
Maquila, currency misalignment and export-led growth in Mexico
(2011-08)
The paper argues that the weak effect of exports on GDP growth in Mexico is partly explained by two features of the Mexican economy that arose subsequent to trade liberalization: the peso's continued real appreciation and ...
Development of technological capabilities in an extremely volatile economy. The industrial sector in Argentina
(CEPAL, 2008-03)
The goal of this paper is to analyse the main characteristics of Argentine manufacturing industry and the development phases (going back more than a century);, especially, to concentrate on its structural features during ...
Technological change and structuralist analysis
(1995-04)
Dedicated to Fernando Fajnzylber, In memoriam
This article analyses the approach which ECLAC has taken to the subject of technology. In this respect, the author identifies two different periods. The first starts with the ...