The Geography of Brazilian External Trade: Right Option for a BRIC?

Words can make a difference sometimes.Brazil is – together with the other ´BRIC´- a large economy, with an increasingly high profile in the international scenario. Large domestic market makes it more likely to obtain ‘growth-led exports’ rather than ‘export-led growth’, which implies a pro-active role in international relations. The option for intensifying regional trade links is a reasonable one and perhaps even inevitable, taking into account the experience elsewhere, but the actual regional conditions raise a number of questions that have to do both with further empirical assessment and to more specific identification of expectations with regard to probable achievements. This article has shown that the road to reach significant progress in this direction is not flat and requires more clear signalling to economic agents, strong political will and a good deal of specific measures. But it has also suggested that it might provide positive results.

Availability, collection and use of data on disability in the Caribbean subregion

Includes bibliography

Disability and mobility: interaction of two public policies for sustainable development

This issue of the FAL Bulletin analyses institutional alternatives and international best practices for the development of transportation services that explicitly include and integrate users with some type of disability.

Report on the coordination of international statistical activities in the area of the environment

Includes bibliography.

An analysis of the status of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Maritime sector and ports in the Caribbean: the case of CARICOM countries

Includes bibliography

A cultural view of the ECLAC proposals

Includes bibliography

The socioeconomic cost of illicit drug consumption in Chile

Includes bibliography

Findings of the survey on international classifications in Latin America

Spanish document available at the Library

Gaps in the welfare State and reforms to pension systems in Latin America

Includes bibliography