Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2009-2010: The distributive impact of public policies

Includes bibliography

Trade and economic growth: a Latin American perspective on rhetoric and reality

Incluye Bibliografía

Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2005

Includes bibliography

Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2008

Includes bibliography

Distributive impact of public policy

Includes bibliography

La economía cubana desde el siglo XVI al XX: del colonialismo al socialismo con mercado

Incluye Bibliografía

A periodization of Latin American development in the Robinsonian tradition

This paper analyzes Joan Robinson's growth model and then adapts it in order to provide an explanatory taxonomy of Growth Eras. The Growth Eras or Ages were for Robinson a way to provide logical connections between output growth, capital accumulation, the degree of thriftiness, the real wage and illustrate a catalogue of growth possibilities. This modified taxonomy follows the spirit of Robinson's work, but it takes different theoretical approaches. which imply that some of the classifications do not fit perfectly the ones here suggested. Latin America has moved from a Golden Age in the 1950s and 1960s to a Leaden Age in the 1980s, having two traverse periods, one of which the process of growth and industrialization accelerated in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which is referred to as a Galloping Platinum Age, an one in which a process of deindustrialization and reprimarization and maquilization of the productive structure took place, starting in the 1990s, which could be referred as the Creeping Platinum Age.

Revista de la CEPAL no.67

Primer Mundo y Tercer Mundo después de la Guerra Fría / Eric Hobsbawm. -- Las dimensiones urbanas en el desarrollo rural / Alexander Schejtman. -- Capacitación en pequeñas empresas en América Latina / Guillermo Labarca. -- Reforma neoliberal y política macroeconómica en el Perú / Oscar Dancourt. -- Impacto de la inversión pública sobre la inversión privada en Brasil: 1947-1990 / Bruno de Oliveira Cruz y Joanílio R. Teixeira. -- Chile y su política comercial “lateral” / Sebastián Sáez y Juan Gabriel Valdés S. -- La reestructuración en la industria: los casos de Chile, México y Venezuela / Carla Macario. -- Industrialización a base de confecciones en la Cuenca del Caribe: ¿un tejido raído? / Michael Mortimore. -- Industria maquiladora y cambio técnico / Rudolf M. Buitelaar, Ramón Padilla y Ruth Urrutia. -- Políticas de ciencia y tecnología y el Sistema Nacional de Innovación en la Argentina / Daniel Chudnovsky. -- Las concesiones y la optimización del transporte vial y ferroviario / Ian Thomson.

Productividad y brechas estructurales en México

En el transcurso de los últimos 25 años se perciben luces y sombras en el desarrollo de la economía mexicana. Por un lado, el desempeño del sector exportador puede calificarse de sobresaliente y se ha logrado un cambio estructural hacia sectores de mayor complejidad tecnológica. En cambio, las tasas de crecimiento económico son insuficientes y persisten grandes rezagos sociales. Existe un marcado consenso en el que el modesto desempeño de la actividad económica está asociado cercanamente con una expansión insuficiente de la productividad. En este documento se analizan las brechas estructurales que explican el lento y desigual crecimiento de la productividad registrado en México en el período 1990-2014. El análisis de las brechas de productividad se efectúa por medio de ejercicios estadísticos y econométricos con información recolectada y publicada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) de México. En particular, se utilizaron la base de datos KLEMS, los censos económicos, y las encuestas de ocupación y empleo.

Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2008-2009: Policies for creating quality jobs

Includes bibliography

Economic growth with equity: challenges for Latin America

Includes bibliography

ECLAC Development of official statistics in the region. Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on the development of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); and offers a description of the main trends in the development of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and the principal challenges in that regard.The first chapter provides an analysis of the state of development of statistical production in the region, based on statistical information for 41 Latin American and Caribbean countries and eight specific areas. The institutional organization of national statistical systems in the region is also described. Chapter II examines the history and current status of mechanisms for regional and subregional coordination and of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC. Chapter III describes the main challenges for official statistics in the countries of the region and the strategies that the Statistical Conference of the Americas and ECLAC propose to implement in order to address them.

The history and challenges of Latin American development

Foreword Alicia Bárcena and introduction by Jorge Máttar

Political violence and economic development in Latin America: issues and evidence

Includes bibliography