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Education reform has been a major undertaking in Latin America in the 1990s. In Chile, the emphasis of reform is on improving the quality and equity of education in the public sector. This publication...

The notion of “business development service” (BDS) is quickly gaining popularity among policy makers and scholars of management, industrial organization and development. Similarly, attention is...

The Chilean wine industry has performed remarkably well internationally over the past decades. This paper explores the factors that have supported this successful performance and tries to measure to...

This paper summarizes the main results of a study on agrifood competitiveness in Central American and Caribbean countries sponsored by the government of Netherlands and carried out by the Economic...

The study reviews the current situation of the small and medium-sized industrial enterprises (SMIs) in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and St. Lucia. It describes the evolution of SMIs, the country...

This paper examines two pivotal education and labour market policy and performance questions. One, the degree to which countries in the Latin America region are catching up or falling behind their...

This paper analyzes the competitiveness and structure of manufactured exports by leading Latin American and Asian economies for 1980-97. It explains East Asian performance with reference to the...

This publication focuses on creating an awareness of the new economic situation, which has been provoked by the introduction of modern Information and Communication Technologies. It shows the...

Exports of apparel represent the principal link of the Caribbean Basin to the international economy. These exports arise from a combination of factors such as low salaries, tax incentives, and...

This paper examines the anatomy of the pervasive current job cuts and job losses in multinational enterprises. It raises the question of social and economic costs to countries and workers, focusing...

The publication is aimed to survey the trends and motivations of Korean overseas foreign direct investments (OFDI). It consists of three sections: an outline of the evolution of the Korean OFDI in...

This publication investigates the impact of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) on Latin America. In analyzing the special characteristics of Latin America with regard to the...

This paper explores the macro policy-micro behavior nexus in a Latin American context in the textile goods market. The first section of the paper is an overview of the macroeconomic environment of...

Technical change and economic development are unequivocally related. But it still is a matter of debate how to close this loop and, even more, how to design proper policies to stimulate knowledge...

Income and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean is extremely high and the performance of the social sector is inadequate. This publication addresses this issue focusing on such factors...

This publication develops a simple appreciative model, which explores some of the issues faced by structural reforms, technological gaps and economic development in Latin America. The first section...

The publication attempts to define the concept of industrial policy, to review certain relevant historical experiences, and to examine the current state of the art of industrial policy in Latin...

The advent of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the establishment of a global Information Society are leading countries of all shapes and sizes to take a fresh look at their...

Up until now there has been no specific treatment of small firms in economic theory. This study attempts to provide the reader with points of particular interest in the light of recent developments in...

The apparel industry, a buyer-driven commodity chain, contains three types of lead firms: retailers, marketers and branded manufacturers. This publication uses the global commodity chains framework to...