Ecuador: defining and measuring multidimensional poverty, 2006-2010

Includes bibliography

Informe del Seminario-Taller sobre el Análisis de la Contaminación de la Refinería Estatal Esmeraldas en los Ríos Esmeraldas y Teaone = Report of the Seminar-Workshop on the Analysis of the Pollution from the Esmeraldas State Refinery in the Esmeraldas and Teaone Rivers

Incluye Bibliografía

Informe del II Taller de Gerentes de Organismos de Cuenca en América Latina y el Caribe = Report on the Second Workshop for Managers of River Basin Authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

Propuestas de proyectos de cooperación horizontal para el desarrollo del sector minero-metalúrgico de América Latina: listado preliminar = Proposals for horizontal co-operation projects for the development of the mining and metallurgical sector of Latin America: preliminary list

Presenta proyectos de cooperacion horizontal para el desarrollo del sector minero-metalurgico propuestos por Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru y Republica Dominicana, los cuales han sido clasificados en proyectos de caracter regional o subregional y en proyectos de caracter multinacional.

Access of Latin American and Caribbean exports to the US market 2004-2005

Includes bibliography

The export potential of small-and medium-sized enterprises of some selected countries of Latin America to the European Economic Community (EEC): summary

Estudia los problemas referentes a la relación con el mercado internacional, de capacitación de personal en distintas áreas productivas, de transporte y de financiamiento de las empresas encuestadas de Ecuador, México, Uruguay, Chile, Perú y Paraguay, en sus políticas de promoción de exportaciones.

Management for the development of high-mountain river basins in the Andean region

Includes bibliography

Policies for the management of the development of river basins and microregions in the high Andes

Includes bibliography

Evaluation of e-readiness indices for Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Characteristics of households with ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Los desastres naturales de 1982-1983 en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú; versión preliminar

V. 1: Resumen de conclusiones y recomendaciones; v. 2: Evaluación de los daños; v. 3: Requerimientos de asistencia internacional para la rehabilitación y reconstrucción

Progress of road maintenance in Latin America

Road maintenance work has gradually been increasing in Latin America. Existing contracts in Argentina, Chile, Guatemala and Uruguay - 210 overall - account for a total of 20,212 kilometers of public roadways by level of service. In Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, 26 contracts are now in the pipeline for the maintenance of 7,700 kilometres of roadway. This issue of the FAL Bulletin presents a survey of the status of road maintenance considered at the second Seminar of the Americas of the Road Maintenance Training Programme (Provial), held in Lima, Peru from 18 to 21 October 1999 and which examined the type of financing used in road maintenance as well as contracts, institutions and interaction between the public and private sectors.

Third ordinary meeting of the conference of South American ministers of transport, communications and public works

The third ordinary meeting of the Conference of South American Ministers of Transport, Communications and Public Works was held from 6 to 8 November 1996 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela took part. Representatives of the following organizations were present as observers: the Latin American and Caribbean Federation of National Associations of Cargo Agents, the Latin American Railways Association, the Latin American Association for Automated Highway Transport, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Road Federation/German Agency for Technical Cooperation (IRF/GTZ); and other representatives from both the private and public sectors.

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Ecuador

Includes bibliography.

The advance of cloud computing

The “Implementation of the National Data Centre” project, Augusto Espín, Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society, Ecuador .-- Cloud computing and public policy in Brazil, Rafael Henrique Rodrigues Moreira, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil .-- “The cloud is being taken up more quickly in Latin America than in the rest of the world”, interview to Lalo Steinmann, Microsoft .-- The impact of education and research networks on the development of cloud computing Eduardo Vera, University of Chile .-- “The cloud helps to narrow divides by providing access to technology resources that used to be unaffordable”, interview to Luis Urzúa, Movistar Chile .-- “Cloud computing will be a strategic sector of the economy in the coming years”, interview to Jean-Bernard Gramunt, France’s digital strategy .-- “If take-up in Latin America is as strong as predicted, it will be a good opportunity to create and export technology”, interview to Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Labs.