Energy efficiency potential in Jamaica: challenges, opportunities and strategies for implementation

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Growth and concentration among the leading business groups in Mexico

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A snapshot of Chile's 20 largest multinational enterprises in 2011: Sustained growth in South America

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Istmo Centroamericano: la regulación de la distribución de energía eléctrica en los países con empresas privadas. Los casos de El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua y Panamá

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Foreign Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1998

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Education and knowledge: basic pillars of changing production patterns with social equity

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Equity, development and citizenship: abridged edition

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Sustainable development: changing production patterns, social equity and the environment

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China and Latin America and the Caribbean: building a strategic economic and trade relationship

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E-commerce environment and trade promotion for Latin America: policy implications from East Asian and advanced economies' experiences

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What can we say about trade and growth when trade becomes a complex system?

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Organic food market in the United States: Market access opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean producers

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Profit margins, financing and investment in the Peruvian business sector (1998-2008)

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Infrastructure, transport and production development in an agricultural region: a case in Argentina.

The development of the agricultural area in central and northern Argentina was analysed in a recent ECLAC study. More than 80% by volume of the country's agricultural exports pass through the ports in this area. Exports by the agroindustrial complex account for 58% of the total value of Argentine sales.It is known that investments in infrastructure generally help to reduce the costs of enterprises and to enhance productivity. The main idea presented in this study is that investments in transport infrastructure are a necessary condition for the productive development of a region, especially in relation to external trade through ports and navigable waterways.In the case of Argentina, a positive relationship has been observed between the development of port and waterway services (with reduced costs and operating times, improved reliability and new services), and expansion of the agricultural border, growth of productivity and agricultural production, and its industrialization.

Does public financial support stimulate innovation and productivity? An impact evaluation

This paper contributes to the empirical literature that evaluates the effects of public financial support to innovation on innovation expenditures, innovation itself and productivity in developing countries. Propensity score matching techniques and data from Innovation Surveys are used to analyse the impacts of public financial support to innovation on Uruguayan firms. The results indicate that there is no crowding-out effect of private innovation investment by public funds and that public financial support in Uruguay seems to increase private innovation expenditures. Financial support also appears to induce increased research and development expenditures and innovative sales, with these effects being greatest for service firms. Public funds do not, however, significantly stimulate private expenditures by firms that would have carried out innovation activities even in the absence of financial support.