POPIN: a catalyst for a better international exchange of population information

Analiza las actividades del POPIN, cuyo objetivo es ayudar al establecimiento de nuevos servicios de información y coordinar el intercambio entre los existentes, compatibilizando las tareas para mejorar el flujo de información sobre población y la utilización de las fuentes disponibles. Incluye las recomendaciones de la Cuarta Reunión del POPIN realizada en Beijing entre el 22 y el 25 de octubre de 1986; y una lista descriptiva de sus publicaciones.

Preparation and exchange of audio-visual material for education in science and technology

Contiene informacion sobre el Proyecto III del programa de trabajo del CCCT: preparacion e intercambio de material audiovisual para la educacion sobre los beneficios, limitaciones y peligros del desarrollo en ciencia y tecnologia.

Exchange rate regimes in the Caribbean

This document analyses exchange rate regimes in the Caribbean subregion. Caribbean exchange rate regimes are typified into hard and soft pegs. Hard pegs refer to those arrangements that maintain a constant value of the domestic currency in terms of the currency of a major trading partner. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS); economies established a monetary union in 1983. The Bahamas, Belize and Barbados also fixed the value of their domestic currency in relation to the United States dollar in the middle of the 1970s. Soft pegs are monetary arrangements characterized by a forcefully managed exchange rate. Three countries are included in this category, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

Las bolsas de productos básicos de los países desarrollados y las exportaciones de América Latina y el Caribe = The commodity exchange of the developed countries and Latin American and Caribbean exports

Incluye Bibliografía

La bolsa de café, azúcar y cacao y su incidencia en las exportaciones de América Latina y el Caribe = The coffee, sugar and cocoa exchange and its impact on exports from Latin America and the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

Exchange and Cooperation Programme CELADE

El informe describe las actividades desarrolladas bajo el Programa de Intercambio y Cooperacion CELADE-Canada II (CCII) durante el periodo enero-marzo de 1989, en sus tres componentes: a) cooperacion tecnica, ensenanza e investigacion, centradas en encuestas demograficas nacionales, encuestas de migracion interna, uso y generacion de informacion en poblacion, estudios integrados sobre poblacion y desarrollo, cursos nacionales sobre la integracion de las variables demograficas en la planificacion, programas de estudios demograficos, cursos sobre tecnicas de analisis demografico, talleres, seminarios y publicaciones; b) intercambio, incluyendo el apoyo a estudiantes latinoamericanos en universidades canadienses, contratacion de personal canadiense y profesores visitantes; c) apoyo a programas, a traves de personal tecnico, servicios de computacion, materiales y equipos.

A festa do Peão de Boiadeiro: espaço-mercadoria, indústria cultural e consumo

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A first approach to the impact of the real exchange rate on industrial sectors in Colombia

Much has been said about possible symptoms of Dutch disease in Colombia in the wake of a marked upsurge in commodity prices and the significant real appreciation of the national currency. This paper examines whether the real effective exchange rate had an impact on industry during the period 2000-2010. Specifically, it evaluates the effect of the appreciation of the real exchange rate on the value added of 63 industrial sectors in Colombia using the Arellano and Bond (1991) generalized method of moments (gmm) estimator. Overall, our results confirm a negative relationship between real exchange rate appreciation and industry. The analysis showed that real exchange rate appreciation had a significant impact on the value added of 21 sectors: a negative effect for 18 sectors and a positive effect for 3 sectors.

Pricing and spread components at the Lima Stock Exchange

This paper analyses three aspects of the share market operated by the Lima Stock Exchange: (i) the short-term relationship between the pricing, direction and volume of order flows; (ii) the components of the spread and the equilibrium point of the limit order book per share, and (iii) the pricing, order direction and trading volume dynamic resulting from shocks in the same variables when lagged. The econometric results for intraday data from 2012 show that the short-run dynamic of the most and least liquid shares in the General Index of the Lima Stock Exchange is explained by the direction of order flow, whose price impact is temporary in both cases.

Exchange-rate variations and the rate of inflation in emerging economies

This paper develops a structural general equilibrium model to analyse the reactions of the nominal exchange rate and the domestic price level to three types of external shock in emerging economies that have limited access to world capital markets. Although the results depend crucially on the type of external shock, each of the two national balance-sheet parameters considered here —the risk premium and the ratio of external indebtedness— exacerbates the reactions of the two endogenous variables without altering the degree of exchange-rate pass-through (erpt). Moreover, flatter Phillips curves, as observed today in many economies, tend to increase erpt. On the basis of these results, the authorities of emerging economies seeking to stabilize markets and limit erpt are advised to minimize the two risk parameters by applying a flexible inflation-targeting regime.