Long run economic development in Latin America in a comparative perspective: proximate and ultimate causes

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Changes in the distribution of income and the New Economic Model in Jamaica

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Can growth and equity go hand in hand?

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Fiscal policy and the economic cycle in Chile

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Growth, distributive justice and social policy

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ECLAC and the new growth theories

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Trade and growth in Chile

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Managing in the public sector for investment and growth

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Participation by the poor in the fruits of growth

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Global economic crises, environmental-resource scarcity and wealth concentration

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

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Structural change and productivity growth 20 years later: old problems, new opportunities. Summary

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Population, social equity and changing production patterns

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Global economic developments, 1999

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Big data and open data as sustainability tools: A working paper prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The two main forces affecting economic development are the ongoing technological revolution and the challenge of sustainability. Technological change is altering patterns of production, consumption and behaviour in societies; at the same time, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure the sustainability of these new patterns because of the constraints resulting from the negative externalities generated by economic growth and, in many cases, by technical progress itself. Reorienting innovation towards reducing or, if possible, reversing the effects of these externalities could create the conditions for synergies between the two processes. Views on the subject vary widely: while some maintain that these synergies can easily be created if growth follows an environmentally friendly model, summarized in the concept of green growth, others argue that production and consumption patterns are changing too slowly and that any technological fix will come too late. These considerations apply to hard technologies, essentially those used in production. The present document explores the opportunities being opened up by new ones, basically information and communication technologies, in terms of increasing the effectiveness (outcomes) and efficiency (relative costs) of soft technologies that can improve the way environmental issues are handled in business management and in public policy formulation and implementation.