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

Includes bibliography

Building SME competitiveness in the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean: policy proposals by the private sector

Includes bibliography

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

Includes bibliography

Theory and practice of industrial policy: evidence from the Latin American experience

Includes bibliography

Policy competition for foreign direct investment in the Caribbean Basin: Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica

Includes bibliography

Trade, direct investment and production policies

Includes bibliography

Market failure and technological policy

Includes bibliography

Industrial policy and promotion of competitiveness

Includes bibliography

Economic policy, institutions and productive development in Latin America

Includes bibliography

The importance of local production and small-scale enterprises for Latin American development

Includes bibliography

Science and technology policy and the National Innovation System in Argentina

Includes bibliography

Macroeconomy for development: countercyclical policies and production sector transformation

Includes bibliography

Population, social equity and changing production patterns

Includes bibliography

Renewable energy sources in Latin America and the Caribbean: situation and policy proposals

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Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2015: Policy space and dilemmas. Executive Summary

The present document provides an up-to-date overview of public debt and fiscal space in the region. The main conclusions show that public debt levels are low in Latin America and high in the Caribbean. Overall, the region has enough fiscal space to apply countercyclical policies and boost production development and the fiscal management of non-renewable natural resources needs to be modernized. It explains that fiscal policy has a very limited impact on the distribution of disposable income and in a volatile macroeconomic environment, reforms should aim to strengthen personal income tax.