Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2015: The Regional Trade Crisis - Assessment and Outlook, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Автор: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Название: Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2015: Challenges in Boosting the Investment Cycle to Reinvigorate Growth
ISBN: 9211218950 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211218954
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This revelatory publication features a selection of beautifully reproduced images from his sketchbooks. Most of the sketches - which include works in pencil, pastel and watercolour from across the artist`s long career - are published here for the first time. These fascinating images extend our understanding of Freud`s work and demonstrate the scrutiny he brought to his subjects.

Автор: United Narions Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Название: Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2015
ISBN: 9211219116 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211219111
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Описание: Highlights a regional slowdown in GDP growth. It argues that the currency depreciation seen in several countries in the region could, if sustained, increase incentives for investment in tradeable sectors other than the region`s traditional exports (commodities), while redirecting expenditure to ease pressure on the current account.

Автор: Aedo Cristian, Walker Ian
Название: Skills for the 21st Century in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN: 0821389718 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821389713
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Описание: This report contributes to the debate about the quality of education and returns to education investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LCR). It aims to improve our understanding of the links from investment in education and training to labor market outcomes and to provide a basis for policy choices that will strengthen future outcomes. The report is organized in four main chapters. Chapter 2 documents the recent downturn in education earnings premia using standard 'mincerian' regressions based on household survey data. Chapter 3 explores the underlying supply-side and demand-side drivers of the trends in premia. It documents the recent expansion of education coverage in LCR, benchmarks it against other regions, and presents an in-depth analysis of the relative importance of shifts in the supply and demand for skills in generating declining earnings premia. Using a methodological approach first developed by Katz and Murphy, it concludes that demand-side changes appear to be the critical factor. It also analyzes the role of institutional factors, finding that minimum wages also have likely played an important role in the compression of labor earnings. Chapter 4 focuses on trends in student achievement and the cost-effectiveness of secondary education. It analyzes trends data from the OECDs PISA survey of 15-year-old children in secondary education which covered nine LCR countries in 2009. It shows that achievement is improving slowly, but remains well behind the OECD. It presents benchmarking evidence suggesting that LCR may be both under-resourcing secondary education and also getting poor returns per dollar invested -- a classic low-quality equilibrium. Chapter 5 presents evidence on the fit between the skill set of LCR workers and the needs of the economy, applying an approach first developed by Levy and Murnane in the U.S.A. Analysis of the industrial composition of employment in four countries suggests that LCR is lagging in those industries that require relatively sophisticated new economy skills in the U.S.A. Further evidence that cutting-edge firms in LCR might be facing skill constraints comes from the hiring lags registered in enterprise surveys."

Автор: Yepez-Garcia Rigoberto Ariel, Dana Julie
Название: Mitigating Vulnerability to High and Volatile Oil Prices: Power Sector Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN: 0821395777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821395776
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Описание: The unprecedented rise in world oil prices over the past decade has created greater economic uncertainty and higher risk introduced by oil price volatility. Countries with a high proportion of oil in their primary energy supply are especially vulnerable. At both macro and micro levels, such countries may suffer serious effects, ranging from short-term to permanent changes that hinder potential growth and international competitiveness. Mitigating Vulnerability to High and Volatile Oil Prices: Power Sector Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean offers an assessment of how these countries can better cope with high and volatile oil prices. The book first analyzes the economic effects of high and volatile prices on oil-importing countries, with emphasis on power sector experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. Second, it proposes complementary measures that can be applied using a multi-horizon strategy. To manage price risk, various physical and financial hedging tools are available to governments of oil-importing countries. To reduce oil dependence over the longer term, the book proposes implementing three structural measures: a more diversified electricity generation matrix, better energy efficiency in electricity production and use, and regional integration with more diversified power systems. Finally, the book quantifies some of the macro- and micro-level benefits that could result from implementing these measures. In the subregions examined, significant savings in the cost of fuel purchases-up to 5 percent of gross domestic product-could accrue to heavily oil-dependent countries. The aggregate effect would not only be a reduction in energy expenditures. It would mean less vulnerability to the impact of high and volatile oil prices. While much of the book s analysis refers to Central America and the Caribbean, the underlying principles of the policy recommendations can be applied to any oil-importing country seeking to mitigate vulnerability to high and volatile oil prices."

Название: International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2017: Recovery in an Uncertain Context
ISBN: 9211219698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211219692
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Описание: Describes the current international context and the recovery of trade in the region; reviews the region`s performance in global trade in services in general and in modern services in particular, since 2005; and provides an overview of Latin America and the Caribbean`s share of the world agricultural trade since 2000.

Автор: United Nations
Название: Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2015
ISBN: 9211218888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211218886
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 30490.00 T
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Описание: In its latest edition, the Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean report analyzes in-depth the FDI received by the Caribbean, where these flows are much more significant than in the rest of the region as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The study also examines the impact of FDI on the environment, which has not been measured or regulated sufficiently by countries in the region.

Автор: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Название: Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2015
ISBN: 9213290233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789213290231
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Описание: The Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC presents a set of basic statistics on the economic, sociodemographic and environmental situation of the region during a specific time period. This edition of the Yearbook includes information available up to mid-December 2014, and it comprises four chapters. The first covers demographic and social indicators and continues to reflect special efforts to mainstream the gender perspective in statistical information and to encompass poverty-related topics. The second chapter presents economic statistics relating to trade, balance of payments and domestic prices, as well as national accounts. The statistical series are expressed in constant dollars. The third chapter provides quantitative information available on the environment. Given the abundance of data —often diverse and sometimes conflicting— now accessible to researchers, special attention must be paid to technical aspects specifying the source of the data, their definition and coverage. This information is presented in the fourth chapter, which deals with methodology and metadata, supplementing the more specific information contained in the footnotes to each of the tables in this Yearbook.

Автор: Kingstone, Peter R.,
Название: The political economy of Latin America :
ISBN: 113892699X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138926998
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Kingstone offers a unique contribution by mapping out the problem of how to understand institutions, why they are created, and why Latin American ones limit democratic development.

Автор: Dookeran
Название: Crisis and Promise in the Caribbean
ISBN: 1472440420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472440426
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Caribbean is made up of a complex, enigmatic region, characterised by great disparities in size, population, geography, history, language, religion, race and politics. This is a region in which harmony and discord work in tandem, trying to link economic logic with political logic. This book is a useful tool not only for those specialists and students of regionalism but for all those putting their hands to the task of nation-building and those interested in the development processes of small states and economies. At the same time, this book is a comprehensive historical record especially highlighting hindrances to development in this region. This study raises two important issues: the ’political imperative of convergence’ and the need for ’appropriate correcting mechanisms’ that align the needs of the local with the regional. It is a volume that underlines the need for a change in strategy and makes proposals as to how to go about making those changes.

Название: Money from the Government in Latin America
ISBN: 0815387377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815387374
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book looks at how conditional cash transfer programmes have affected the lives of rural communities in Latin America since the schemes appeared on the scene twenty years ago. With case studies ranging from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this book will interest scholars of anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.

Автор: Asa K. Cusack
Название: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Limits of Postneoliberal Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN: 1349950025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349950027
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the implementation, functioning, and impact of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), cornerstone of Venezuelan foreign policy and standard-bearer of "postneoliberal" regionalism during the "Left Turn" in Latin America and the Caribbean (1998-2016).

Название: Preliminary overview of the economies of latin america and the caribbean 2017
ISBN: 9211219779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211219777
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Описание: One of ECLAC`s most important annual reports, this analyses the economic performance of the region throughout the year, the international context and macroeconomic policies implemented by countries, while also providing an outlook for 2018.