Author: Miguel A. Centeno
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107189829
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 451
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This book analyzes how developmental states contributed to economic prosperity, sometimes with spectacular success, and sometimes with less brilliant results.
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Coral Calderón Magaña
Publisher: UN
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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This publication offers a representative sample of the thinking developed over recent years in relation to time use, time-use measurement and related policies in Latin America. The issue of care and its importance and meaning have become part of the gender agenda in the region, especially since the tenth session of the Region Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Quito in 2007.
Author: Valeria Jordán
Publisher: UN
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Foreword -- The shifting digital paradigm in Latin America -- The demand gap: drivers and public policies -- Regional and international connectivity -- Broadband, digitization and development -- Mobile broadband: the urgent need for speedier roll-out -- Cloud computing, structural change and job creation in SMEs -- National broadband plans -- Broadband and industrial policy: the Korean experience -- Net neutrality: debate and policies -- The advance of cloud computing -- The challenge of over-the-top content and services
Author: Ricardo Martner
Publisher: Naciones Unidas Cepal Comisiaon Econaomica Para Amaerica Latina y el Caribe (Cepal) Ilpes
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Category : Budget
Languages : es
Pages : 200
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Con motivo de la celebración de los primeros 50 años de existencia del Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES), se presenta en este volumen una muestra de documentos seleccionados de esta institución --publicados entre 1962 y 1972-- que sentaron las bases de un cuerpo de pensamiento latinoamericano sobre la planificación del desarrollo. Además de su valor histórico evidente, este material es, por su calidad y vigencia, un importante aporte al debate actual sobre los grandes temas del desarrollo en nuestra región.
Author: United Nations
Publisher: UN
ISBN: 9789210560092
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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The Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013 analyses the policies required to improve the perspectives of sustainable regional growth. It reviews the links between economic growth and investment and employment, as well as the fiscal and monetary policies, industrial, trade and social policies relevant for short and long-term growth. Special attention is given to regional key issues such as its structural heterogeneity, its high levels of inequality and the challenges of environmental sustainability. Additionally, the region s economic evolution during the first semester of 2013 is analyzed in this survey."
Author: United Nations
Publisher: UN
ISBN: 9789212211138
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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This publication presents a set of basic statistics on the economic, socio-demographic and environmental situation of the region during a specific time period. This edition of the Yearbook includes information available up to mid-December 2013. A new feature this year is the inclusion of regional profiles giving an overview of each area. These offer the reader a thematic regional snapshot with a selected set of indicators. The Yearbook is comprised of four chapters that cover a range of subjects such as: demographic and social indicators; economic statistics relating to trade, balance of payments and domestic prices, and national accounts; quantitative information on environment; and methodology.
Author: René A. Hernández
Publisher: UN
ISBN: 9789211218442
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Business services have been one of the fatest growing export areas in emerging economies over the past decade. The spread of information and communication technologies and the rise in trade liberalization have facilitated the global unbundling and offshoring of services activities from advanced to developing countries, including those in Latin America. This offshoring has gradually evolved into more sophisticated forms of business process outsourcing. Several countries in the region are now in the process of further upgrading their services exports to participate in knowledge process outsourcing, which includes research and development, product development and more advanced vertical functions and activities in the value chain. The empirical and analytical insights in this volume document how several countries in Latin America have entered the offshore services sector both through the attraction of multinational companies and the internationalization of domestic service suppliers. The future of the offshore services sector in Latin America will depend on its ability to upgrade its knowledge- and skill-intensive product offerings. This will call for the development of domestic technical capabilities, the adoption of renewed industrial policies, the promotion of backward and forward linkages, and the continued upgrading of human capital and information technology-integrated manufacturing.
Author: Eliane Ceccon & Daniel Roberto Pérez
Publisher: Eliane Ceccon
ISBN: 9879132556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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This book invites us to reflect on the restoration of terrestrial ecosystems in the context of a region whose identity is still under construction, Latin America and the Caribbean, immersed in a social, economic, ecological and political crisis, whose roots originate historically and politically in colonialism and in the prevailing model of capital accumulation. For the first time, insights and practical experiences on restoration are gathered from most Latin-American and Caribbean countries. Furthermore, this book offers a social approach to restoration, which will likely become preponderant in this field and in this region. The authors claim that a Latin-American knowledge of restoration is under construction and that this discipline can be a significant tool to empower local populations, which might, in turn, lead to a collective action of change. Case studies from 11 countries of the region were compiled, involving multiple voices that emerge beyond generalist principles and with a bottom-up approach. The main idea of the book is to open a debate about the identity of ecological and social restoration in this region. This book is targeted to restoration specialists, volunteers, environmental managers, researchers, politicians and NGOs working on the complexity of socioecological restoration in a region with unavoidable social problems. It is intended for people with similar concerns to those of the chapters' authors. This work tries to integrate a movement on the rise, almost silent, born with its own narratives of successes and failures that do not hinder its development. Finally, the determination and commitment of Latin-American and Caribbean social actors to restore not only natural values but also social, ethical and cultural ones is remarkable.
Author: Inés Bustillo
Publisher: UN
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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This publication examines how external debt financing has evolved in the past three decades (1982-2012). It looks back 30 years and analyses the Latin American and Caribbean region's trajectory from the unique perspective of access to international financial markets. As the title implies, this trajectory has been a rollercoaster ride, with many ups and downs, and moments of anticipation and panic. The developments of the past three decades as described in this book suggest that more widespread and cheaper access to international capital markets can play a role in the long process of achieving sustainable growth with equality, by broadening the options for financing investment and social initiatives. Despite the lessons learned and the progress over this period, many challenges remain. Structural change should be at the heart of a long-term growth process to make equality a reality.
