Road maps towards an information society in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

The use of census data for national development planning Focus on the 2010 population and housing census

Includes bibliography.

Políticas públicas para el desarrollo digital: Avances y desafíos de América Latina y el Caribe

eLAC2007 - El Plan de Acción para la Sociedad de la Información en América Latina y el Caribe. Políticas Públicas para el desarrollo digital: Avances y desafíos de América Latina y el Caribe - CEPAL. Sociedad de la Información y Gobernabilidad: El binomio de la esperanza – Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) Grado de preparación, capacidad y cooperación en materia de gobierno electrónico: Apoyo de UNDESA para la ejecución del eLAC2007. Acceso universal a las telecomunicaciones: la perspectiva del Banco Mundial Preparar a América Latina y el Caribe para la difusión de la nueva generación de tecnologías de la información y de las comunicaciones - CEPAL. Consolidar el desarrollo y la difusión de las TIC en los países ALC: un compromiso sólido y duradero del Banco Interamericano del Desarrollo (BID). Retos en el seguimiento del eLAC2007 - OSILAC. OSILAC – El Observatorio para la Sociedad de la Información en Latinoamérica y el Caribe.

Access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean: situation, outlook and examples of good practice

Includes bibliography

La nueva revolución digital: de la Internet del consumo a la Internet de la producción

Prólogo de Alicia Bárcena

The new digital revolution: From the consumer Internet to the industrial Internet

The new digital technologies have led to widespread use of cloud computing, recognition of the potential of big data analytics, and significant progress in aspects of the Internet of Things, such as home automation, smart cities and grids and digital manufacturing. In addition to closing gaps in respect of the basic necessities of access and usage, now the conditions must be established for using the new platforms and finding ways to participate actively in the creation of content and even new applications and platforms. This message runs through the three chapters of this book. Chapter I presents the main features of the digital revolution, emphasizing that today’s world economy is a digital economy. Chapter II examines the region’s strengths and weaknesses with respect to digital access and consumption. Chapter III reviews the main policy debates and urges countries to take a more proactive approach towards, for example, regulation, network neutrality and combating cybercrime. The conclusion highlights two crucial elements: first, the need to take steps towards a single regional digital market that can compete in a world of global platforms by tapping the benefits of economies of scale and developing network economies; and second, the significance of the next stage of the digital agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2018), which will embody the latest updates to a cooperation strategy that has been in place for over a decade.

Latin American structuralism and economic theory

Includes bibliography

Financial constraints on economic development: Theory and policy for developing countries

This article contains a theoretical and policy analysis of the financial constraints on economic development in developing countries. Following a Keynesian interpretation, it concludes that financial policies are needed to relieve these constraints, given the natural tendency of financial systems to operate in ways that are dysfunctional to economic development. It then proposes three lines of policy that take account of the special characteristics of developing countries: resource allocation policies targeted at segments of strategic importance for economic and financial development; policies to control financial and external fragility; and compensatory policies of a more interventionist cast, in particular directed credit programmes for both public- and private-sector lending to complement resource allocation policies, and countercyclical regulatory barriers so that fragility can be better controlled.