This paper analyzes extractive industries in Colombia and their connections to other economic activities in the country. We use detailed social security data on all formal employees to create an industry-relatedness measure using labor flows between industries. Drawing on the vast network...

The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the...

El objetivo del presente folleto informativo es dar cuenta del proyecto piloto de producción y distribución del video documental "Vidas golpeadas, esperanzas destruidas: cuando el hombre maltrata a la mujer" (ATN/SF-5317-RG), del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID). Como parte del...

This book focuses in detail on the analysis of foreign direct investment flows to Latin America and the Caribbean from the vantage point and on the basis of statistical sources from the main investor countries.