En el presente articulo el autor analiza las condiciones de produccion de las industrias centroamericanas y sus facultades competitivas en el marco de las transformaciones originadas en el curso del actual proceso de apertura comercial

Las politicas industriales en America Central se caracterizan por su falta de uniformidad. Este articulo describe sucintamente las politicas en vigor a mediados de 1992 en Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua en materia de inversion extranjera, registro de nuevas inversiones,...

The countries of Central America are often described as open economies because the ratio of trade to gross domestic product is high. The author reviews trends in economic performance, estimates the contribution of import substitution and export promotion to manufacturing growth, examines...

Given the paucity of basic information concerning the conditions of production and the ability of Central American industries to survive import competition, the Industrial Development Unit of ECLAC's Mexico Office decided to implement Project CAM/89/012 "Industrial restructuring in Central...

Ten years ago, member countries of the Central AmericanCommon Market (CACM) began to turn away from a decades-oldpolicy of "inward development". They encouragednontraditional exports by lowering tariff barriers, unifyingexchange rates, and granting exporters access tointermediate and capital...