The impact of exports on growth in Chile

Includes bibliography

Institutional aspects of exports of Latin America manufactures

Includes bibliography

Latin America and Asia-Pacific: evolution and composition of exports from Brazil and Chile in the 1990s

Includes bibliography

Free trade agreements in Latin America since 1990: an evaluation of export diversification

Includes bibliography

The international competitiveness of the Costa Rican clothing industry

Includes bibliography

Mexico: value added in exports of manufactures

Includes bibliography

Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2007

Includes bibliography

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

Includes bibliography

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

Includes bibliography

Economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: summary 2010

Spanish version available at the Library

Trade reforms and trade patterns in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Determinants of technological innovation in Argentina and Brazil

Includes bibliography

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

Includes bibliography

Recent increases in shipping costs and their impact on exports from Latin America

This issue of the FAL Bulletin is based on a study prepared by ECLAC which works out a provisional approach for estimating the impact of increases in freight rates on exports from Latin America during the last few quarters. The total cost of exports from the region reflects the increases in three different components: the quantities exported, the prices of the goods and the freight charges. The influence of each of these is estimated.The information bases used are comprised of data obtained from the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (International Transport Database) and the authors own direct compilation. The conclusion is that total exports from Latin America varied by US$ 5.72 billion in the first half of 2004 compared with the first half of 2003; of this amount, US$ 2,105,000,000 correspond to the variation in price and quantity and US$ 3,615,000,000 represent the increase in export freight rates. When compared with the first half of 2002, the variation is in excess of US$ 8 billion.