Structural change in four Latin American countries: An international perspective

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Revista de la CEPAL no.95

La emergencia de las multilatinas / Javier Santiso .-- La nueva pobreza urbana: dinámica global, regional y argentina en las últimas dos décadas / Gabriel Kessler y María Mercedes Di Virgilio .-- La regulación económica como complemento de las licitaciones en las concesiones de obras públicas / Eugenio Rivera .-- La relación entre crisis cambiarias y bancarias en países emergentes: los problemas de información y expectativas / Daniel Sotelsek y Lilianne Pavón .-- La paradoja del crecimiento lento de México / Carlos Ibarra .-- Globalización y desarrollo regional: evolución económica de las regiones chilenas, 1990-2002 / Juan Carlos Ramírez J. e Iván Silva Lira .-- Efectos de protección financiera del sistema de salud pública y del seguro privado en Brasil / Antônio M. Bós y Hugh R. Waters .-- Impactos de la discriminación por género sobre la pobreza brasileña / Rosycler Cristina Santos Simão y Sandro Eduardo Monsueto .-- Consolidación bancaria y concentración del crédito en Brasil (1995-2004) / Daniel B. de Castro Almeida y Frederico G. Jayme Jr. .-- Orientaciones para los colaboradores de la Revista de la cepal .-- Publicaciones recientes de la cepal.

Work, family and public policy changes in Latin America: Equity, maternalism and co-responsibility

Taking account of the substantial increase in female labour market participation that has occurred throughout the Latin American region, this article describes policies adopted with the aim of reconciling work and family responsibilities between 2003 and 2013, and the implications of their design for socioeconomic and gender equity. We look at the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay, five countries which, on the basis of their track records, are the best placed to implement policies to reorganize time, income and services. The empirical analysis indicates, first, that these changes have contributed to socioeconomic equity more consistently than to gender equity. Second, the scale and type of change was found to vary significantly from one country to another. The article concludes by raising a number of substantive questions about the measures, their implementation and effectiveness, and the variations between countries.

Determinants and home-country effects of FDI outflows: Evidence from Latin American countries

Foreign direct investment (FDI) by Latin American companies has increased sharply since the beginning of the 2000s. While most investment flows correspond to firms from large economies (i.e. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia), small economies have also witnessed the increasing internationalisation of their domestic companies. This study examines the strategies followed by multinational enterprises (MNEs) from Latin America when they decide to invest in other countries, highlighting differences by sector and issuer-country size. To that end a new database, which comprises quantitative information on the main operations abroad of Latin American enterprises (both greenfield, and mergers and acquisitions) was constructed, based on fDi Markets and Thomson Reuters Datastream. It also investigates the home-country effects of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by conducting a case study of Costa Rica through a representative sample of firms investing abroad.

Expert survey on priorities for the information society in the Caribbean

An on-line survey of experts was conducted to solicit their views on policy priorities in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Caribbean. The experts considered the goal to “promote teacher training in the use of ICTs in the classroom” to be the highest priority, followed by goals to “reduce the cost of broadband services” and “promote the use of ICT in emergency and disaster prevention, preparedness and response.” Goals in the areas of cybercrime, e-commerce, egovernment, universal service funds, consumer protection, and on-line privacy rounded out the top 10. Some of the lowest ranked goals were those related to coordinating the management of infrastructure changes. These included the switchover for digital terrestrial television (DTT) and digital FM radio, cloud computing for government ICT, the introduction of satellite-based internet services, and the installation of content distribution networks (CDNs). Initiatives aimed at using ICT to promote specific industries, or specific means of promoting the digital economy, tended toward the centre of the rankings. Thus, a general pattern emerged which elevated the importance of focusing on how ICT is integrated into the broader society, with economic issues a lower priority, and concerns about coordination on infrastructure issues lower still.

Recent African immigration to South America: The cases of Argentina and Brazil in the regional context

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Regional integration and export diversification in MERCOSUR: the case of Argentina and Brazil

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Energía nuclear en Colombia, México, Venezuela, Bolivia y Ecuador, y perspectivas de cooperación regional = Nuclear energy in Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia and Ecuador and prospects for regional cooperation

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Opportunities for convergence and regional cooperation: Unity Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean

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Best practices in defence of competition in Argentina and Brazil: useful aspects for Central America

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Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2008-2009: Crisis and opportunities for regional cooperation

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Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2010-2011: The region in the decade of the emerging economies

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Ensayos sobre el financiamiento de la seguridad social en salud: los casos de Estados Unidos, Canadá, Argentina, Chile y Colombia

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