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This publication examines the main debates under way on social protection and co-responsibility transfer programmes. It identifies the role played by these programmes and considers the conceptual...

The economies of China and of the Latin America and the Caribbean region are the current global growth poles and, over the coming years, will grow twice or three times as quickly as the industrialised...

This book aims to document the growing investment and trade relations between Latin America and Asia, as well as some of their imbalances. It also provides several examples on how to upgrade trans...

This publication aims to contribute to the research, analysis and design of proposals for the social protection of older persons. It develops a new conceptual approach and uses various indicators for...

This publication examines how external debt financing has evolved in the past three decades (1982-2012). It looks back 30 years and analyses the Latin American and Caribbean region’s trajectory from...

Labour conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been a cause for concern. Despite relatively high economic growth rates, a large part of labour force was excluded from productive...

This publication examines the impact of structural reform on income distribution in the nine countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Distribution in the region is the most unequal in the world...

Profound structural reforms have moved Latin America and the Caribbean from closed, state-dominated economies to ones that are more market-oriented and open to the rest of the world. This publication...

This book is a part of a project to study the economic reforms implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last two decades. This publication analyzes the investment process and attempts to...

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...

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...