Reflections on the use of labour market indicators in designing policies with a gender-based approach

Includes bibliography

Comment on the article by Isaac Cohen Orantes and Gert Rosenthal "Reflections on the conceptual framework of Central American economic integration"

Includes bibliography

Keynesian economic policies: reflections on the Brazilian economy, 1995-2009

Includes bibliography

Reflections on the conceptual framework of Central American economic integration

Includes bibliography

Reflections on the Latin American economy in 1982

Includes bibliography

Algunas reflexiones acerca del período extraordinario de sesiones de la Asamblea General y de la Estrategia Internacional del Desarrollo = Some reflections on the special session of the General Assembly and the International Development Strategy

Incluye Bibliografía

Algunas reflexiones sobre los censos de poblacion y vivienda de la decada del 90 en America Latina = Some reflections on the 1990s round of population and housing censuses in Latin America

Incluye Bibliografía

Reflections on the population and development agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean beyond 2014

Includes bibliography

Reflections on the need for a new discourse on development

This issue of the FAL bulletin reflects on the need to place a new discourse at the centre of the academic, social and political debate, in relation to developing infrastructure services in a sustainable way.

Trade and Development Nexus: reflections on the performance of trade in goods under the Cariforum-European Union Partnership agreement a Cariforum perspective

Given the asymmetry in the levels of development and capacity which exist between the EU and CARIFORUM States, the architects of the CARIFORUM-European Union (EU) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)1 anticipated the need for review and monitoring of the impacts of implementation. Article 5 and other provisions in the Agreement therefore specifically mandate that monitoring be undertaken to ensure that the Agreement benefits a wide cross-section of the population in member countries. The paper seeks to provide a preliminary assessment of the impact of the EPA on CARIFORUM countries. In so doing, it highlights some critical information and implementation gaps and challenges that have emerged during the implementation process. The analysis however, is restricted to goods trade. The services sector will be the subject of a separate report. The paper draws on a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. While the paper undertakes a CARIFORUM-wide analysis for the most part, five CARIFORUM member states including Barbados, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia are examined more closely in some instances. These economies were selected by virtue of economic structure and development constraints, as a representative subset of CARIFORUM, which comprises the CARICOM membership as well as the Dominican Republic.

Reflections on development financing

This article sets forth some reflections on the position of the region's countries and the different segments of their domestic financial structures in the international financial system. In the light of the financial globalization taking place in Latin America, it considers the circumstances of the largest countries in the region, looking beyond the stylized arguments of conventional wisdom to analyse different factors influencing the financial situation: sovereignty risk, financial globalization, the degree of financial integration, the cost of capital and the burden of country risk premiums, the link between sovereign risk and fiscal solvency and the consequences of segmented integration. Consideration is then given to courses of action that could reduce country risk. In addition, the role of the different institutional sectors in generating savings is analysed, and the main trends of financial intermediation in the region are considered: banking concentration, the increased involvement of foreign organizations and the role of the public-sector banking system in the circumstances that now prevail.