Cargo unitization in the light of institutional requirements for its support

Includes bibliography

Análisis de la gestión del riego en Mendoza: sus determinantes sociales, institucionales, legales y administrativos: resumen = A study of irrigation management in Mendoza: social, institutional, legal and administrative factors: summary

Incluye Bibliografía

Institutional framework, co-modality and sustainable transport services

This issue of the FAL bulletin focuses on the problems which public institutions encounter when formulating transport policies and the challenge of designing and implementing systemic, integrated, sustainable transport policies in the current institutional framework in the countries of Latin America.

Development then and now: Idea and utopia

The crisis of globalization has given renewed topicality to the idea of development as a complex process involving social and institutional changes as well as a variety of democratic learning processes. Placed at the margin of the international academic and political debate, the political economy of development can come back into its own if academics and politicians responsible for the economy are forced to think for the long term. The political economy of development needs to be twinned with politics so that what we understand by the general interest can be reconfigured in pursuit of freedom, justice and democracy. These can be the keys to turning globalization, whose essence is openness and interdependence, into an active agent in the development of national density, something that is indispensable if we are to think critically about reality and, as Prebisch taught and practised, set history on a future-creating course.

Expectations and industrial output in Uruguay: Sectoral interdependence and common trends

This paper examines the interdependence between expectations and growth by analysing Uruguayan manufacturing industry, divided for the purpose into four industry groupings differentiated by trade participation and production specialization. The study shows that there is a long-run relationship between industrialists' expectations and output growth in each grouping. In the most trade-oriented groupings the relationship is one of predetermination, showing how useful expectations are as a guide to sectoral growth. Expectations in the four industrial groupings are shown to follow a common long-run trend, identified with the one guiding the export grouping. Impulse-response simulations derived from a multisectoral vector autoregression (VAR) model confirm the important role of the industries most exposed to international competition in spreading shorter-term shocks.

Institutional report of the ECLAC subregional headquaters for the Caribbean on the support provided to Caribbean small island developing states for the implementation of the Mauritius strategy

This paper presents a review of the support provided by the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean to small island developing States in the Caribbean for the further implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action. This report forms part of the MSI+5 Review and addresses structural support through the establishment of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism and the Technical Advisory Committee, and the applied research conducted by ECLAC which is intended to lead to policy implementation.

A questão regional e a formação do discurso desenvolvimentista na Amazônia

Este trabalho de tese trata de um estudo sobre a formação histórica discursiva sobre a questão regional amazônica e sua relação com o período nacional-desenvolvimentista no Brasil. Em sua primeira parte, o estudo apresenta os objetivos e a fundamentação teórico-metodológica do trabalho, baseada no método arqueogenealógico de Michel Foucault e na teoria de ideologia de Paul Ricoeur. Em seguida o estudo apresenta as bases históricas e conceituais da formação do ciclo ideológico do desenvolvimentismo no Brasil, assim como os fundamentos teóricos e discursivos da questão regional brasileira. Nesta parte, o que fica evidente é a importância da correlação e interdependência entre o tema da questão regional e a formação do discurso nacional-desenvolvimentista no Brasil; e nesse sentido, a obra de Celso Furtado se destaca como importante elemento de elaboração discursiva que irá representar uma interpretação da questão regional como compondo um projeto mais amplo de desenvolvimento nacional. Na parte final do trabalho, destaca-se a conexão entre o ambiente institucional nacional desenvolvimentista brasileiro e a formação de uma tradição de pensamento regionalista amazônico que terá grande influência nas décadas de 40 e 50, e que será responsável pela elaboração de um discurso desenvolvimentista-regionalista a partir da influência de autores como Euclides da Cunha e Gilberto Freyre. Autores como Arthur Cezar Ferreira Reis, Leandro Tocantins e Djalma Batista, entre outros, serão considerados alguns dos principais responsáveis pela elaboração de um discurso intelectual que, segundo uma das conclusões principais do estudo, tem suas condições de possibilidade criadas e impulsionadas a partir da realidade político-institucional que se constitui no contexto de formação das instituições desenvolvimentistas na Amazônia nas décadas de 40 e 50. Conformando uma formação discursiva a qual atribuiremos o nome de desenvolvimentismo-regionalista.

Implementing inflation targeting in Brazil: an institutional analysis

The paper shows the advantages and handicaps of implementing an inflation target (IT) regime, from a Post-Keynesian and, thus, an institutional stance. It is Post-Keynesian as long as it does not perceive any benefit in the mainstream split between monetary and fiscal policies. And it is institutional insofar as it assumes that there are several ways of implementing a policy, such that the chosen one is determined by historical factors, as it is illustrated by the Brazilian case. One could even support IT policies if their targets were seen just as “focusing devices” guiding economic policy, notwithstanding other targets, as, in the short run, output growth and employment and, in the long run, technology and human development. Nevertheless, an IT is not necessary, although it can be admitted, mainly if the target is hidden from the public, in order to increase the flexibility of the Central Bank.