Selección de documentos y publicaciones de la CEPAL relacionados con la incorporación de la perspectiva de género en las principales áreas del desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe = Selected ECLAC documents and publications relating to mainstreaming the gender perspective in the main spheres of the regional development process in Latin America and the Caribbean

Publicación bilingüe

Progress report on gender equality, poverty eradication and the Millennium Development Goals in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Multilateral banking and development financing in a context of financial volatility

Includes bibliography

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

Includes bibliography

New directions for development banking in the Caribbean: financing to take advantage of unlimited supplies of labour skills and entrepreneurship

Includes bibliography

A new approach to development banking in Jamaica

Includes bibliography

Development planning in St. Vincent

Publicado también con el símbolo CEPAL/CARIB 80/7

Six problems of development planning in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Algunos problemas regionales de América Latina vinculados con la metropolización = Some regional development problems in Latin America linked to metropolitanization

Incluye Bibliografía

Development and in vitro evaluation of coated pellets containing chitosan to potential colonic drug delivery

In this work pellets containing chitosan for colonic drug delivery were developed. The influence of the polysaccharide in the pellets was evaluated by swelling, drug dissolution and intestinal permeation studies. Drug-loaded pellets containing chitosan as swellable polymer were coated with an inner layer of Kollicoat® SR 30 D and an outer layer of the enteric polymer Kollicoat® MAE 30 DP in a fluidized-bed apparatus. Metronidazole released from pellets was assessed using Bio-Dis dissolution method. Swelling, drug release and intestinal permeation were dependent on the chitosan and the coating composition. The drug release data fitted well with the Weibull equation, indicating that the drug release was controlled by diffusion, polymer relaxation and erosion occurring simultaneously. The film coating was found to be the main factor controlling the drug release and the chitosan controlling the drug intestinal permeation. Coated pellets containing chitosan show great potential as a system for drug delivery to the colon. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.

Brazilian municipalities: agglomeration economies and development levels in 1997 and 2007

Includes bibliography

Development banks in the financial-liberalization era: the case of BNDES in Brazil

Includes bibliography

Population, resources, environment, development interrelationships in the United Nations: in search of a focus

Includes bibliography