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This publication reviews the current debate on competition policy. It presents a short survey of competition policy in the United States, Europe and Latin America together with an overview of anti...

This paper presents a critical survey of the literature on economic globalization and gender, with a specific focus on Latin American and Caribbean studies. The objectives of the survey are twofold: 1...

Throughout the last century, two interwoven trends have been unfolding in the world economy: the growing internationalization of the production process and the predominance of manufactured goods in...

This is the official report submitted to the General Assembly by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean on its formal session (451st meeting) held on 26 July 2005 at United Nations Headquarters.

This is the official report submitted to the General Assembly of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean on its formal session (453rd meeting) held on 24 July 2009 at United Nations Headquarters.

In its resolution 64/23, the General Assembly, having taken note of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean (A/64/29), requested the Chair of the Committee to continue his informal...

The interaction between antidumping and antitrust is a polemic issue in every integration process for both legal and economic reasons. From a legal perspective, antidumping rules allow practices such...

In this series a comparison is made between the 'export orientation' of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America and East Asia. The series calls for a new approach to SME policy...

Official records of the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean

Official records of the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean

This is the biennial report submitted to the General Assembly by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean.

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is expected to introduce revolutionary innovations to businesses, management and international trade. However, in Latin America and the Caribbean the innovative gains...

Latin American countries rank among those that have displayed the greatest amount of rule-making activism towards foreign direct investment in recent decades. This paper depicts the changing...

This paper analyses the main features of trade agreements covering services concluded between Latin American countries and developed country partners. By means of a very detailed comparison across...

This publication provides an overview of trade relations between Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and explores the possibilities for expanding the economic relations between the two regions. The...

Transparency obligations are changing the way policies in general are formulated, adopted and implemented. Implementation takes place at different moments in time and at different stages of the...

Bureaucracies in Latin America play a major role in designing and orienting the decisions on trade policy. On the other hand, the Legislative Power assumes an important role in the final stage, when...

At the national level CARICOM economies are at different stages in their export promotion efforts ranging from countries such as Suriname where export promotion is a distant objective to Barbados...