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There are over 37,000 transnational corporations in the world with over 170,000 foreign affiliates. This report presents for the first time ever data on the largest 100 non-financial transnational...

The World Investment Report series provides the latest data and analysis foreign direct investment (FDI) and other activities of transnational corporations, as well as the policies to regulate them at...

Governments and societies alike have sought new ways of adapting to shifting circumstances and tackling the many challenges that have arisen. One of the many expressions of that adaptation process has...

The evolution of the family in the Latin American and Caribbean countries reflects a number of world wide trends such as smaller family size, growing family instability, the variety of child rearing...

This publication outlines the evolution of population dynamics at the regional and country levels. It discusses adolescent fertility, infant mortality and the challenges of persistence of maternal...

This Report analyses the phenomenal growth of world foreign direct investment in the 1980s. In particular, it focuses on the Triad - the United States, the EC and Japan - which accounted for four...

The documents included in this collection constitute primary sources about the most decisive external economic relationship of twentieth-century Central America. As they reveal, the presence of the...

This publication calls for the transformation of the production patterns of Latin America and the Caribbean within the next decade, through education, training and the incorporation of scientific and...

This timely study examines the role of TNCs as engines of international growth. Its analysis shows ample cause for optimism and it is hoped that the lessons learned from the analysis will assist in...

Under the assumption that regional planning was the most favourable way to incorporate the environmental dimension into development planning, five case studies were set up covering ecosystems...

The study focuses on the main lessons left by the economic crisis of the 1980s and presents a proposal for consideration by Member States' governments, for the development of the Latin American and...

Examines the debt problem in its proper context and the role that the public sector is expected to play in resolving it. The study contains a series of constructive proposals as to how to end the...

Unemployment, a subject high on the agenda of governments, is the special focus of this year's Report. It analyzes the wide-range of effects of the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs) on...