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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

This article analyses the relationship between energy consumptionin industry and industrial productivity and the implications of this forsustainable development. To this end, it presents a matrix characterizingeconomies as: (i); converging or diverging in terms of energy consumptionper unit of value added, and (ii); catching up with or falling further ...

En este artículo se argumenta que en un mundo cada vez más globalizado los gobiernos locales y regionales de América Latina deben asumir nuevos desafíos, entre ellos los de crear o mejorar capacidades competitivas y transformar los sistemas productivos locales. Estos dos aspectos deben vincularse a las políticas territoriales y, más precisamente, ...

This article argues that the local and regional governments of Latin America, in an increasingly globalized world, must face new challenges that include establishing or improving their competitive strengths and transforming their local production systems. These two aspects must be linked to territorial policies and, more specifically, to the development ...

This article analyses the reduction of labour costs as a factor which helps to raise the competitiveness of industrial enterprises. It first reviews non-wage labour costs, both for workers with permanent contracts and those with only temporary contracts, or with no contracts at all, in order to show the differences that exist in non-wage labour costs ...

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 ...

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 early twenty-first century in Latin America was characterized by a “pink tide”, in which a reorientation of national policies produced positive social outcomes and changed both the regional order and the role of regional integration in the different countries. Alongside this process, the international economy provided relief from the external ...