Trade in services in Latin America and the Caribbean: an analysis of recent trends

Includes bibliography

Small and medium-scale industry in the development of Latin America

Includes bibliography

Science and technology policy and the National Innovation System in Argentina

Includes bibliography

Industrialization, new technologies and competitiveness in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013

Includes bibliography.

Aglomeraciones en torno a los recursos naturales en América Latina y el Caribe: políticas de articulación y articulación de políticas

Incluye Bibliografía

Productive development in open economies

Includes bibliography

Business development service centres in Italy. An empirical analysis of three regional experiences: Emilia Romagna, Lombardia y Veneto

Includes bibliography

Innovation and technology policy (ITP) for catching up: a three phase life cycle framework for industrializing economies

Includes bibliography

Open regionalism in Asia Pacific and Latin America: a survey of the literature

Includes bibliography

Development banking in the Eastern Caribbean: the case of Saint Lucia and Grenada

Includes bibliography

The middle class and the development process

Includes bibliography

Public policies and the competitiveness of agricultural exports

Includes bibliography

Las tecnologías de la información en la facilitación del comercio y su aplicación por las PYMES

La presente edición del Boletín se basa en el material presentado en el seminario Information Technology for Development of Small-and Medium-sized Exporters in East Asia and Latin America (Tecnología de la información para el desarrollo de exportadores medianos y pequeños en Asia Oriental y América Latina), que se realizó entre el 23 y el 24 de noviembre de 2004, en la sede de la CEPAL, en Santiago de Chile. Este evento formó parte del proyecto Comparative Study on East Asian and Latin American IT Industry, financiado por el fondo temático para las Tecnologías de Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC) para el Desarrollo en el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) y ha sido desarrollado en estrecha colaboración con el Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), organismo que pertenece al Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). En esta oportunidad, se abordan los conceptos, definiciones y estándares asociados al comercio electrónico; las oportunidades y los desafíos a superar para que las PYMES puedan incrementar sus negocios electrónicos.

Information technologies in trade facilitation and their use by msmes

This issue of the Bulletin is based on the material presented at the seminar Information Technology for Development of Small and Medium-sized Exporters in East Asia and Latin America, which was held on 23 and 24 November 2004 at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile. The seminar was part of the project entitled Comparative Study on East Asian and Latin American IT Industry, financed by the thematic fund for information and communication technologies (ICT) for development of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has been carried out in close collaboration with the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), an organization that belongs to the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO). This article contains a discussion of the concepts, definitions and standards associated with electronic commerce, as well as the opportunities to be seized and the challenges to be met so that MSMEs can expand their electronic business.