POPIN: a catalyst for a better international exchange of population information

Analiza las actividades del POPIN, cuyo objetivo es ayudar al establecimiento de nuevos servicios de información y coordinar el intercambio entre los existentes, compatibilizando las tareas para mejorar el flujo de información sobre población y la utilización de las fuentes disponibles. Incluye las recomendaciones de la Cuarta Reunión del POPIN realizada en Beijing entre el 22 y el 25 de octubre de 1986; y una lista descriptiva de sus publicaciones.

Is the Czech economy a success story?: the case of CzechInvest, the strategic promotion agency in Czech industrial restructuring

Includes Bibliography

Reforming the international financial architecture: consensus and divergence

Includes bibliography

International financial reform: a broad agenda

Includes bibliography

Equity, foreign investment and international competitiveness

Includes bibliography

Findings of the survey on international classifications in Latin America

Spanish document available at the Library

Modernization of Customs and Implementation of Single Window Systems for Foreign Trade: Results of an International Seminar-Workshop

An international seminar-workshop entitled "Facilitation of trade and transport in Latin America: situation and outlook" was held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 29 and 30 November 2005, organized jointly by the ECLAC Division of International Trade and Integration and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The event was attended by about 50 persons involved in customs modernization and/or the implementation of single window systems for foreign trade in 20 Ibero-American countries.The main purpose of the seminar-workshop was to exchange ideas, opinions and proposals concerning the efficient implementation of trade facilitation instruments. The conclusions reached at this event point to the need to seek convergence among the existing trade agreements associated with trade facilitation in Latin America. Customs modernization requires the re-design of processes and procedures in order to achieve interoperability among the systems, and single window systems for foreign trade can only be implemented successfully if clear political leadership is established with broad participation from both public and private organizations.

The international asparagus business in Peru

Includes bibliography.

Results of the International Comparison Program (ICP) 2011 for Latin America and the Caribbean

The International Comparison Programme (ICP) is a worldwide statistical project whose purpose is to collect comparative price data from a broad list or basket of products and to compile detailed values for spending-side gross domestic product (GDP) in order to calculate purchasing power parities (PPPs). Using PPPs, rather than market exchange rates, to convert macroeconomic aggregates aids comparison of production across economies and of the well-being of populations in real terms, insofar as they are compared on the basis of the purchasing power of each of the participant countries.