DIGITAL REPOSITORY
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

En este artículo se examina la reducción de los costos laborales como un factor que contribuye a elevar la competitividad de las empresas industriales. Se pasa revista en primer lugar a los costos laborales no salariales, tanto de los trabajadores con contrato indefinido como de aquellos con contrato temporal y de los no registrados, con el propósito ...

This article presents the issue in the context of the theoretical and empirical debate, started by Kuznets, on the possibility of achieving growth with equity. The conclusion is that there is no inevitable conflict between these two goals, provided that economic policy promotes the areas of complementarity between growth and equity. It therefore ...

Trade among the ALADI countries has grown with exceptional vigour so far in the 1990s, especially in the branches of metal products, machinery and equipment, chemical products, and foodstuffs, beverages and tobacco. In order for this dynamic growth to be sustainable in the long term, these countries must develop their intra-industry trade by promoting ...

ECLAC has submitted an overall assessment of the economic reforms implemented during the past 15 years to the Governments of the region and, based on that assessment, a proposal for strengthening the development process. The central message that emerges from this analysis is that the region needs to work towards forming closer linkages among its ...

El autor se propone demostrar la importancia que reviste la calidad para las estrategias nacionales dirigidas a mejorar la productividad y la competitividad en América Latina. En mercados cada vez más globalizados y liberalizados, la calidad es fundamental y, por lo tanto, la aplicación estratégica de técnicas de gestión de calidad ayuda significativamente ...

En el presente artículo se analiza la relación entre el consumo energético de la industria, la productividad industrial y sus implicancias para un desarrollo sostenible. Con este objetivo, se presenta una matriz que caracteriza a aquellas economías que: i) convergen o divergen en términos de consumo energético por unidad de valor agregado, y ii) ...

The constitution of a new international industrial order dominated by a core of large transnational corporations generally makes life more difficult for the great majority of developing countries because, since most are not in a position to compete effectively, they face still greater marginalization. TNCS more than ever before can significantly ...

Trade liberalization, deregulation of economic activity, the privatization of public-sector production units and much more careful management of the main macroeconomic aggregates are causing profound changes in the behaviour of the Latin American economies. A more competitive climate is gradually spreading through the countries of the region as ...