Foreign direct investment (FDI) by Latin American companies has increased sharply since the beginning of the 2000s. While most investment flows...
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This paper discusses the role of institutions and structural change in shaping income inequality. It is argued that while social expenditure and...
The objectives of this report are twofold: The first is to provide an integrated overview of the governance of strategic minerals in the Latin...
The role of the People’s Republic of China in the world economy has grown substantially in recent decades, turning it into a strategic foreign...
Estimates of investment and its components in Latin America over the past 30 years are used to review stylized facts relating to investment and...
This paper seeks to estimate the costs and impacts of expanding the coverage and improving the quality of cash transfers to older people and to...
This document has been prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the Forum of University Presidents of...
This study identifies the key challenges facing the region in the domain of care provision. To that end it describes, analyses and discusses the...
This document, which is partly based on by the study Impacto de la Infraestructura de la Calidad en América Latina, is a second joint effort by...
This paper aims to contribute to developing the normative framework for rights-based social protection systems and discusses lessons learned in...
This document analyzes the State’s role in social matters, in terms of social insurance and protection, social promotion and investment, and its...
The Latin American Economic Outlook analyses issues related to Latin America’s economic and social development. Since 2011, the report has been...
Through the astute analysis of official statistics, we can gather a more complete picture of the economic performance of a given country, and...
This article analyses the share of total income represented by employment earnings in the countries of Latin America over the last two decades. It...
This article applies the stochastic-frontier model to examine total factor productivity (tfp) and its components in Latin America between 1960 and...
As the twenty-first century advances, the countries of Latin America are building deeper democracies and looking critically at the development...
This paper analyzes Joan Robinson's growth model and then adapts it in order to provide an explanatory taxonomy of Growth Eras. The Growth...
This report pursues three complementary aims. Firstly, it presents the first generation of country case studies on social protection systems in...
America is one of the priority areas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean (ECLAC) of the United Nations and, in...
The crisis of globalization has given renewed topicality to the idea of development as a complex process involving social and institutional...