Trade in services in Latin America and the Caribbean: an analysis of recent trends

Includes bibliography

Innovation and technology policy (ITP) for catching up: a three phase life cycle framework for industrializing economies

Includes bibliography

Development banking in the Eastern Caribbean: the case of Saint Lucia and Grenada

Includes bibliography

The middle class and the development process

Includes bibliography

Small-scale mining: a new entrepreneurial approach

Includes bibliography

Economic crisis and mortality: short and medium-term changes in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Productivity and water suppression in different beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) phenological stages

Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is widespread in the social and economic scene in Brazil, as well it is Brazilian population main dish, and it also helps small and medium farmers' income. The objective of this study was to compare the productivity performance of common bean Carioca - IAC Alvorada with irrigation suppression in each of the five phenological phases. The experiment was conducted in plots in a greenhouse at College of Agronomical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu - SP. The hypothesis is that if the water supply is suppressed in one of the five development stages of irrigated common beans, the yield reduction would be at least 20%. The treatments consisted of suppression irrigation in one of the five development stages (stage V1 to V3, stage V4 to early flowering, flowering stage, pod formation stage and pod filling stage) compared with the irrigation at all stages and suppression of irrigation at all stages, with seven treatments and four replications. The treatments most affected by water suppression were those which suffered suppression of irrigation during the vegetative phase and flowering stage. Treatments with water suppression in all stages, and suppression during the phases (stage V1 to V3, stage V4 to early flowering, flowering stage, pod formation stage and pod filling stage) showed yield reduction of approximately 95%, 55.1%, 49.5%, 63,1%, 30.2% and 35.6%, respectively, when compared to treatment with irrigation all stages. All treatments considered confirmed the hypothesis.

Science and technology policy and the National Innovation System in Argentina

Includes bibliography

Economic crises and mortality: short and medium-term changes in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Industrialization, new technologies and competitiveness in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013

Includes bibliography.

The digital economy for structural change and equality

Includes bibliography.

Formação, dinâmica e a reestruturação da cadeia produtiva do leite na região de Jales-SP

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Information technologies in trade facilitation and their use by msmes

This issue of the Bulletin is based on the material presented at the seminar Information Technology for Development of Small and Medium-sized Exporters in East Asia and Latin America, which was held on 23 and 24 November 2004 at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile. The seminar was part of the project entitled Comparative Study on East Asian and Latin American IT Industry, financed by the thematic fund for information and communication technologies (ICT) for development of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has been carried out in close collaboration with the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), an organization that belongs to the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO). This article contains a discussion of the concepts, definitions and standards associated with electronic commerce, as well as the opportunities to be seized and the challenges to be met so that MSMEs can expand their electronic business.