Status of oil pollution and oil pollution control in the Wider Caribbean region

Includes bibliography

Procedimientos comerciales y facilitación comercial = Trade procedures and trade facilitation

Contiene los analisis de los expertos en problemas de facilitacion del comercio en lo que se refiere a simplificacion de los procedimientos comerciales a nivel nacional, su armonizacion y uniformacion a nivel regional y sub-regional; la situacion actual dentro de los mecanismos de integracion; las necesidades del fortalecimiento institucional; y la consideracion de posibles acciones de seguimiento.

Report of the workshop in Caribbean small and medium-sized enterprises and trade liberalization: challenges of clusters and network initiatives

Includes bibliography

Efeitos do ultrassom de alta intensidade sob pressão na redução de Listeria monocytogenes em extrato de carne bovina

Pós-graduação em Engenharia e Ciência de Alimentos - IBILCE

Business strategies under stabilization and trade openness in the 1990s

Includes bibliography

Linkages between agro-industry and small-scale agriculture in Guyana

Includes bibliography

Market and trade perspectives for the food and forestry sectors of Latin America in the Asia-Pacific Basin

Includes bibliography

Malaysian industrial and trade policies under the new international trading system

Includes bibliography

Industrial and trade policies under the new trading system: toward a comparative analysis between East Asia and Latin America

Includes bibliography

Development of the copper industry and transnational corporations: the Chilean experience = Desarrollo de la industria del cobre y las empresas transnacionales: la experiencia de Chile

Incluye Bibliografía

Industria del algodón en México y el oligopolio transnacional en su comercialización = Mexican cotton industry and the transnational cotton marketing oligopoly

Incluye Bibliografía

Oligopolio transnacional en la industria de café y el caso de Colombia = Transnational oligopoly in the coffee industry and the case of Colombia

Incluye Bibliografía

The role of the State and the quality of the public sector

Sectoral policies make explicit and implicit assumptions about the behaviour and capabilities of the agents (such as dynamic responses to market signals, demand-led assistance, collaborative efforts, participation in financing); which we consider to be rather unrealistic. Because of this lack of realism, policies that aim to be neutral often turn out to be highly exclusive. They fail to give sufficient importance to the special features of the sector -with its high climatic, biological and commercial risks and its slow adaptation- or to the fact that those who take decisions in agriculture are now mostly in an inferior position because of their incomes below the poverty line, their inadequate training, their traditions based on centuries of living in precarious conditions, and their geographical location in marginal areas, far from infrastructure and with only a minimum of services and sources of information. These people have only scanty and imperfect access to the markets which, according to the prevailing model, should govern decisions and the (re);distribution of the factors of production. In our opinion, this explains the patchy and lower-than-expected growth registered by the sector after the reforms to promote the liberalization of markets and external openness in the region. In view of the results of the application of the new model, it may be wondered whether Latin America can afford a form of development which excludes over half of its agricultural producers; what the alternatives are; and what costs and benefits each of them offers in terms of production and monetary, social, spatial and other aspects. The article outlines the changes in policies and their results at the aggregate level, summarizes the arguments usually put forward to explain agricultural performance in the region, and proposes a second set of explanations based on a description of the agents and the responses that may be expected from them, contrasting the latter with the supposedly neutral nature of the policies.

The tourist cruise industry and its impact on South America

The global tourist cruise industry has been experiencing sustained growth for quite some time; the industry's future prospects are promising, due to good profitability and a reduction in costs achieved thanks to use of ever larger ships, which are making this new form of tourism accessible to more and more people.South American destinations have been visited by a wide range of cruise operators, reflecting the expansion of this industry worldwide; it is necessary that players in the industry take advantage of this opportunity to provide services that employ substantial numbers of people and develop port facilities in order to meet the requirements of ships and tourists alike, thereby heading off competition from other routes.