This paper presents a synthesis of the advances in supporting the shipbuilding industry in Colombia and describes the concepts and experiences that countries like Corea, China, etc., who have used this industry as an engine of development, in as much as the benefits of taking the decision to...

"The prospects for economic development in 1999 are not bad. There is, however, an unusually large degree of uncertainty concerning the future development of the economy and the labour market. In view of this we are basing our alternative projection on a broad range of variation in the...

"The prospects for economic development in 1999 are not bad. There is, however, an unusually large degree of uncertainty concerning the future development of the economy and the labour market. In view of this we are basing our alternative projection on a broad range of variation in the...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Growth and Crisis in the Japanese Economy -- 2 Economic Ascent and Hegemony in the Capitalist World-Economy -- 3 The MIDAs-Steel-Ships Nexus -- 4 Creating Japan's Coal-Exporting Peripheries -- 5 Replicating Japan's New Model in Iron Ore -- 6 Transporting Coal...

This paper proposes a new model-based method to obtain a coincident indicator for the business cycle. A dynamic factor model with trend components and a common cycle component is considered which can be estimated using standard maximum likelihood methods. The multivariate unobserved components...