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Sovereign credit ratings in Latin America and the Caribbean: Trends and impact on debt spreads
- Author(s):
- Bustillo, Inés |
- Perrotti, Daniel E. |
- Velloso, Helvia
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- No.
- 18
- Date Issued:
- 2018-12-17
- Physical Description
- 52 p.
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Due to historically low internal saving rates, access to external financing is very important to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), even more so in the context of the 2030 Agenda and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Public financing falls short of what is needed f... -
Financing development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The role and perspectives of multilateral development banks
- Author(s):
- Artecona, Raquel |
- Bisogno, Marcelo |
- Fleiss, Pablo
- Serie:
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- 19
- Date Issued:
- 2019-05-16
- Physical Description
- 44 p.
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This paper analyses the role that Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) have played in financing development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and what their role will be in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In a context where multilateralism is severely questioned, donor ... -
Antidumping and the global financial crisis: the impact on Latin America and the Caribbean
- Author(s):
- Feinberg, Robert M.
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- 9
- Date Issued:
- 2010-12
- Physical Description
- 27 p. : grafs
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Global antidumping activity peaked in 2001, with 366 petitions initiated world-wide, and rapidly diminished to just 163 cases in 2007. With the onset of the current major world-wide recession some observers feared that antidumping usage would climb dramatically; however while antidumping activity w... -
Organic food market in the United States: Market access opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean producers
- Author(s):
- Scherer, Anne-Christine
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- 12
- Date Issued:
- 2013-09
- Physical Description
- 67 p. : grafs., maps.
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The organic food market in the United States has shown impressive growth rates since the passage of legislation to regulate the market in the early 2000s. Rapidly increasing consumer demand for organic products has led to significant organic market expansion, with double-digit annual sales growth r... -
Aspectos determinantes del estado de la facilitación del transporte en América Latina: los casos de Colombia y el Perú (Comunidad Andina de Naciones)
- Author(s):
- Martínez Rivas, Marelia
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- No.
- 8
- Date Issued:
- 2010-12
- Physical Description
- 89 p. : grafs., maps.
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Pese a que el debate sobre la facilitación del comercio y del transporte ha sido bastante amplio, se ha centrado en el ámbito de comercio exterior y, sobre todo, en la simplificación de los trámites aduaneros. No obstante, la situación que afrontan los agentes de comercio internacional respecto del... -
ECLA, Washington and Inter-American Economic Relations, 1948–1968
- Author(s):
- Cohen, Isaac
- Serie:
- No.
- 20
- Date Issued:
- 2020-09-23
- Physical Description
- 243 p.
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Inter-American economic relations underwent significant changes since the end of World War II, with the creation of hemispheric institutions, such as the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA). This document examines two decades of ... -
Puerto Rico: Fiscal and economic growth challenges
- Author(s):
- Bustillo, Inés |
- Velloso, Helvia
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- No.
- 14
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10
- Physical Description
- 41 p.
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The objective of this paper is to assess the challenges that Puerto Rico’s economy is currently facing. Puerto Rico’s development experience in the postwar period is briefly discussed in order to understand the nature of the island’s current situation. Puerto Rico’s recent economic performance, cre... -
Global financial rulemaking and small economies
- Author(s):
- Artecona, Raquel |
- Bustillo, Inés
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- No.
- 13
- Date Issued:
- 2015-07
- Physical Description
- 35 p.
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This paper addresses some unintended consequences of global financial regulation and international tax evasion prevention and their impact on small economies. It explores how failure to recognize countries’ differing access to finance and varying costs of funding as well as the high costs of comply... -
Estimating the effects of United States food safety and agricultural health standards on agro-food exports from Latin America and the Caribbean
- Author(s):
- Artecona, Raquel |
- Grundke, Robert
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- No.
- 11
- Date Issued:
- 2010-12
- Physical Description
- 89 p. : grafs., maps.
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Food safety and agricultural health standards have become a mayor challenge for food exports from developing countries in the past few years (Jaffe & Henson, 2005; OECD, 2003; Josling, Roberts & Orden, 2004; Maskus & Wilson, 2001). As tariff rates were negotiated down in the context of the World Tr... -
Labour issues in the digital economy
- Author(s):
- Artecona, Raquel |
- Chau, Terence
- Serie:
- No.
- 17
- Date Issued:
- 2017-08
- Physical Description
- 27 p.
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Digital work platforms are transforming labor markets around the world. Firms that own, manage and deploy these work platforms have reframed employer–worker relations by defining their core business as the provision of the technology that enables certain services to be provided rather than the prov... -
Energía y políticas públicas en los Estados Unidos: una relación virtuosa para el desarrollo de fuentes no convencionales
- Author(s):
- Bustillo, Inés |
- Artecona, Raquel |
- Makhoul, Isabel |
- Perrotti, Daniel E.
- Serie:
- No.
- 15
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10
- Physical Description
- 37 p.
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En la última década, la producción de gas y petróleo a partir de formaciones de esquisto han crecido exponencialmente en los Estados Unidos. Una historia breve de esta auténtica revolución podría fundamentarse en el hecho de que en la década de los 2000 los precios de estas fuentes energéticas subi... -
Access to medicines and incentives for innovation: The balance struck in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on intellectual property (patent and data exclusivity) protection for pharmaceutical products
- Author(s):
- Artecona, Raquel |
- Plank-Brumback, Rosine M.
- Serie:
- No.
- 16
- Date Issued:
- 2016-11
- Physical Description
- 55 p.
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This study addresses the balance struck under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) between the right to health and access to medicines and the need to maintain the economic incentives to spur innovation and research and development through intellectual property protection. The analysis fo... -
Change and opportunity: corporate social responsibility as a source of competitiveness in small and medium enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Author(s):
- Van Hoof, Bernhardus |
- Correa, María Emilia
- Núñez Reyes, Georgina
- Serie:
- No.
- 10
- Date Issued:
- 2010-08
- Physical Description
- 55 p. : diagrs.
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Cambio y oportunidad: la responsabilidad social corporativa como fuente de competitividad en pequeñas y medianas empresas en América Latina y el Caribe
- Author(s):
- Van Hoof, Bernhardus |
- Correa, María Emilia
- Núñez Reyes, Georgina
- Serie:
- No.
- 10
- Date Issued:
- 2010-01
- Physical Description
- 56 p. : diagrs.
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Este trabajo forma parte del proyecto de OEA-CEPAL-YABT, "Promoción de la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas en América Latina y el Caribe." El objetivo del proyecto es definir las áreas críticas del negocio, y diseñar una herramienta de gestión con un sistema de ind...
