En el contexto de una globalizacion cada vez mayor, las economias pequenas latinoamericanas se hallan confrontadas a una serie de desafios y oportunidades en que su dimension economica se considera generalmente una desventaja. Las deseconomias de escala aumentan sus costos de produccion mientras...

Based on a survey in 2005 regarding the institutional aspects of monitoring the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the response of the National Statistical Systems (NSS) in producing the necessary indicators, the report review the way information gathered by the diverse entities that form...

This paper presents an evaluation of the impact of structural reforms using data collected for 17 Latin American countries for the period 1970-1996. In line with the literature, the results show that growth was responsive to investment in physical as well as in human capital. Results also...

This paper updates ECLAC's indexes of structural reform in five areas: trade reform, financial liberalization, tax reform, liberalization of external capital transactions and privatization. 17 Latin American countries are covered for the period 1970-2000. The resulting indexes facilitate...

The creation and introduction of the euro on 1 January 1999 was one of the most important economic events of the end of the twentieth century. The paper shows that financial linkages between Europe and Latin America may be the most relevant for Latin America. Exchange rate policy will also be...

The paper reviews the various determinant of economic size (population, natural resources and domestic market) that may affect the growth pattern of smaller Latin American and Caribbean countries. All these factors weigh all the more heavily in that trade has become one of the key factors in...