Enterprise creation and economic recovery: the case of Rio Grande do Sul

Includes bibliography

Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2002

Includes bibliography

Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2011

Incluye Bibliografía

The sustainability of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities

Includes bibliography

Comparative analysis of regionalism in Latin America and Asia-Pacific

Includes bibliography

Trade and investment promotion between Asia-Pacific and Latin America: present position and future prospects

Includes bibliography

Foundations of macroeconomic policy coordination: fostering dialogue as a policy tool in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Road safety: a priority issue for the United Nations

This issue of the Bulletin deals with road safety, which has become an urgent worldwide problem. Given the fact that road accidents are increasing, that they affect the planet's most vulnerable population (namely the lowest income groups in developing countries) and that this is becoming a genuine public health crisis, the United Nations has decided that it is urgent to address the matter. The World Health Organization (WHO) has therefore dedicated the World Health Day 2004 to road safety.Given the urgent need for action, the Chiefs of Transport of the five Regional Economic Commissions of the United Nations held a meeting in Geneva (September 2004), where they agreed to reinforce the studies and projects carried out in this area.Below is a summary of various information sources and initiatives adopted to assess and tackle this modern epidemic and offers a pessimistic outlook for 2020, when road traffic crashes will constitute the third cause of death unless serious action is taken from today.

Visiones regionales en la Amazonia colombiana

En este texto se presentan los resultados de un proceso participativo realizado en las capitales e seis departamentos de la Amazonia colombiana. El ejercicio, explicado en detalle en este documento, consistió en la realización de Encuentros Regionales a los que fueron convocados directores y funcionarios del sector público y privado para reflexionar acerca de las principales inquietudes, oprtunidades y desafíos de los departamentos y de la región, a partir de cinco preguntas orientadoras.

Integration in Latin America - Trends and Challenges

Regional trade agreements have had a significant presence in the design of international and productive policies in Latin American and Caribbean countries since the early 1950s. Fifty years later, the region has not reached the degree of economic inter-relation found, for instance, in Western Europe, but the concern with promoting regional integration has been a tradition in an impressive amount of speeches and declarations by policy makers in the last decades. The weakening of multilateral negotiations and the multiplicity of bilateral agreements with countries in other regions might affect regional trade both via trade diversion and through investment decisions, considering a larger time horizon. International capital movement might affect exchange rates and output growth, hence influencing trade. At the same time the need for new, broader negotiating agenda, from simply dealing with trade issues to taking into consideration topics not directly related to trade but rather to competition, labour standards, environmental issues and others increase the difficulties in designing integration strategies. Even more so if the group of countries that aim at integrating their economies present markedly different characteristics. This article – an extension of a presentation made at the German Development Institute Conference on Regional Economic Integration Beyond Europe held in Bonn in December, 2007 - discusses these and other aspects related to regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Relaciones económicas internacionales y cooperación regional de América Latina y el Caribe = International economic relations and regional co-operation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

Technological change, economic development and intra and extra regional relations in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Globalization and regional development: the economic performance of Chile's regions, 1990-2002

Includes bibliography