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People's Republic of China and Latin America and the Caribbean. Ushering in a new
era in the economic and trade relationship (June 2011) Author:
ECLAC This publication is an updated and more detailed version of a document prepared by the United
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the visit of the
President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, to Brazil in April 2010 for a meeting of BRIC
countries (Brazil, Russian Federation, India and the People’s Republic of China). The document focuses on
recent developments in trade between China and the Latin American and Caribbean region with respect to
countries, sectors and goods, as well as Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region. |
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ICT in Latin America. A microdata analysis (June 2011) Editors: Mariana Balboni, Sebastián Rovira and SebastiánVergara |
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Micro-finance institutions in Latin America: factors that explain their
performance (June 2011, Spanish only) Author: Rodolfo Minzer; Estudios y Perspectivas series Nº 128, ECLAC
Subregional headquarters in Mexico This document seeks to identify the conditions and mechanisms that would improve the
performance of micro-finance institutions and their ability to target microcredit, thereby contributing to the
well-being of the population using such services. |
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International migration in Latin America and the Caribbean. New trends, new
focuses (May 2011, Spanish only) Editor: Jorge Martínez Pizarro The aim of this book is to help increase the skills and capacities of those responsible for
devising migration policies and programmes, so as to integrate the issue into national development strategies.
The book brings together studies produced for the Workshop on Strengthening National Capacities in
International Migration Management - "Looking towards the future: new trends, issues and approaches”, which
was held at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, from 7 to 9 September 2010 as the
result of the first year’s activities of the United Nations Development Account project “Strengthening
national capacities to deal with international migration: Maximizing development benefits and minimizing
negative impact”, designed and coordinated by ECLAC for joint implementation with the other
United Nations regional commissions. |
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Lectures delivered at
the ECLAC headquarters during 2010 (May 2011, Spanish only) Auhtor: ECLAC |
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Child mortality. A database from Latin America since
1960 (May 2011, Spanish only) Authors: ECLAC-UNICEF This joint ECLAC-UNICEF publication, which was supported by the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is an update of a series of previous publications of comparative studies of
child mortality trends and the main differences within Latin American countries, and of the database for each
of the region’s 20 countries. |
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Macroeconomic challenges of fiscal decentralization in Latin America in the
aftermath of the global financial crisis (May 2011) Authors: Teresa Ter-Minassian and Juan Pablo Jiménez, Macroeconomics of
Development series Nº 112 This paper discusses how fiscal decentralization is affecting macro-economic management in
the main Latin American countries; and which reforms in the existing intergovernmental fiscal systems of those
countries could help strengthen their fiscal sustainability, minimize the risk of pro-cyclicality at all
levels of government, and create “fiscal space” for active countercyclical responses to economic shocks. |
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Social innovation and local economic development (May 2011, Spanish only) Authors: Luz Ángela Rodríguez, María Elisa Bernal and Luis Mauricio Cuervo;
Políticas Sociales series Nº 170 This publication is a joint effort from ECLAC’s Social Development Division
and its Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), and seeks to find out
the impact of socially innovative experiments on local economic development in the territories
concerned. |
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Foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
2010 (May 2011) Author: ECLAC This report offers a regional overview of FDI in 2010, describes the presence China is
beginning to build up as an investor in the region and analyses business strategies in the telecommunications
and software sectors. |
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Social Protection and Employment: analysis of experiences from co-responsibility
transfer programmes (May 2011, Spanish only) Authors: ECLAC, OAS and ILO This document analyses the links for coordinating joint actions in employment and social
protection. The focus is on transfer programmes with co-responsibility, which are concerned with providing the
most vulnerable with access to a single, comprehensive and growing system of social protection by providing
transfers subject to co-responsibilities on the part of beneficiaries. |
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