The relation between foreign exchange and banking crises in emerging countries: information and expectations problems

Includes bibliography

The competitive real exchange-rate regime, inflation and monetary policy

Includes bibliography

Exchange-rate management in Brazil

Includes bibliography

Effects of soil and foliar application of soluble silicon on mineral nutrition, gas exchange, and growth of potato plants

Silicon can alleviate biotic and abiotic stresses in several crops, and it has beneficial effects on plants under nonstressed conditions. However, there is still doubt about foliar-applied Si efficiency and Si effects on mineral nutrition, physiological processes, and growth of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants under wellwatered conditions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of soil and foliar application of soluble Si on Si accumulation, nutrients, and pigments concentration as well as gas exchange and growth of potato plants. The experiment was conducted under greenhouse conditions in pots containing 35 dm3 of a Typic Acrortox soil. The treatments consisted of a control (no Si application), soil application of soluble Si (50 mg dm-3 Si), and foliar application of soluble Si (three sprays of 1.425 mM Si water solution, prepared with a soluble concentrate stabilized silicic acid), with eight replications. Both soil and foliar application of Si resulted in higher Si accumulation in the whole plant. Foliar application of Si resulted in the greatest Si concentration in leaves, and soil application increased Si concentration in leaves, stems, and roots. Silicon application, regardless of the application method, increased leaf area, specific leaf area, and pigment concentration (chlorophyll a and carotenoids) as well as photosynthesis and transpiration rates of wellwatered potato plants. However, only soil application increased P concentration in leaves and dry weight of leaves and stems. © Crop Science Society of America.

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.