Work programme of the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean for the first period of the 1990-1991 biennium

Presenta el programa de trabajo para 1990 e incluye las actividades no finalizadas en 1989.

Review of Caribbean economic performance, 1997: based on data for the period January to June 1997

Includes bibliography

Agricultural incentives, growth and poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: cross-country evidence for the period 1960-2005. Did trade liberalization increase the incomes of the poorest?

Includes bibliography

The international competitiveness of the Costa Rican clothing industry

Includes bibliography

Potential output in Latin America: a standard approach for the 1950-2002 period

Includes bibliography

Argentine industry in the early twenty-first century (2003-2008)

Includes bibliography

Istmo Centroamericano: estadísticas del subsector eléctrico (datos actualizados a 2001)

Incluye Bibliografía

A first approach to the impact of the real exchange rate on industrial sectors in Colombia

Much has been said about possible symptoms of Dutch disease in Colombia in the wake of a marked upsurge in commodity prices and the significant real appreciation of the national currency. This paper examines whether the real effective exchange rate had an impact on industry during the period 2000-2010. Specifically, it evaluates the effect of the appreciation of the real exchange rate on the value added of 63 industrial sectors in Colombia using the Arellano and Bond (1991) generalized method of moments (gmm) estimator. Overall, our results confirm a negative relationship between real exchange rate appreciation and industry. The analysis showed that real exchange rate appreciation had a significant impact on the value added of 21 sectors: a negative effect for 18 sectors and a positive effect for 3 sectors.