Studies and Perspectives – ECLAC Office in Washington
Recent Submissions
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 ...
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:
- No.
- 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 ...
Sovereign credit ratings in Latin America and the Caribbean: Trends and impact on debt spreads
- Author(s):
- Bustillo, Inés |
- Perrotti, Daniel E. |
- Velloso, Helvia
- Serie:
- 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...
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...
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...
Puerto Rico: Fiscal and economic growth challenges
- Author(s):
- Bustillo, Inés |
- Velloso, Helvia
- Serie:
- 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...
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...
Global financial rulemaking and small economies
- Author(s):
- Artecona, Raquel |
- Bustillo, Inés
- Serie:
- 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...
The global financial crisis: what happened and what’s next
- Author(s):
- Bustillo, Inés |
- Velloso, Helvia
- Serie:
- No.
- 4
- Date Issued
- 2009-02
- Physical Description
- 52 p.; grafs., tabls.
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Global economic conditions have been deteriorating sharply since mid-
September 2008. Lending has dropped abruptly, credit spreads have
widened sharply, stock markets have plunged and economies everywhere
are stumbling. Governments around the world have undertaken
unprecedented measures, includ...
Observatory of customs controls for United States imports: technical standards
- Author(s):
- Artecona, Raquel |
- Flores, Fernando
- Serie:
- No.
- 5
- Date Issued
- 2009-07
- Physical Description
- 25 p. : gráfs., tabls.
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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...