United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Biographic Data
| ID | 8533869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
| GIVEN NAMES | United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the |
| FAMILY NAME | Caribbean |
| SIGNATURE | CARIBBEAN U N E C F L A A T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 45 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Impact of the peace negotiations in Colombia on real GDP, 2013–2019
The peace negotiations between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia –People’s Army and the Government of Colombia, which began in late 2012 and concluded with the signing of the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace in 2016, sought to bring an end to decades of violence, loss of life, destruction of infrastructure and social fragmentation. This study uses the synthetic control method proposed by Aba…
Empirical evidence for okun’s law in Colombia
This article analyses the relationship between income and unemployment, controlling for the variable of human capital, in rural areas of four Colombian regions. The objective is to test for the existence of the empirical regularity known as Okun’s law and thereby measure income’s impact on unemployment by region. The analysis is based on a monthly series for the period 2010–2022, and the methodologies used to determine the behaviour of this relat…
Long-term effects of real exchange rate volatility and institutional quality on economic complexity
This article analyses whether real exchange rate volatility and institutional quality, combined as conditioning variables of the productive specialization of economies, can have a negative impact on a country’s ability to achieve greater economic sophistication, especially in countries with a commodity-dominated and natural resource-based export basket. The methodology used consists of panel cointegration estimation (pooled mean group) using data…
Economic growth and productive sectors
This article examines how structural change affected economic growth in middle-income developing countries between 1960 and 2019, especially in Brazil (between 1948 and 2020), using the vector autoregression (VAR) model and panel data. The VAR model suggests that structural change in Brazil resulted in the services sector having a greater impact on economic growth owing to the transfer of resources from high-productivity sectors to low-productivi…
Prices and progress? The link between inflation and structural change in post-war Brazil
This paper employs a multivariate time series model to examine the relationship between price increases and structural change in post-war Brazil (1945–1964). To assess this relationship, the model investigates the link between prices, the industrial share of total output in the economy, net investment and industrial sector wages. With a view to addressing criticisms commonly made of the vector autoregression (VAR) family of models, and particular…
Publicaciones recientes de la Cepal
Articles
Methodologies for the construction of nominal and real gross domestic product (GDP) time series often differ over time and between countries. This paper discusses the main issues raised by this methodological heterogeneity for long-run measures of economic growth and, informed by these issues, provides a set of internationally comparable GDP estimates from 1820 to 2020. The estimates are based on real product benchmarks relative to the United Kin…
The influence of fiscal solvency on financial development
If financial development facilitates economic development at the international level, as is the consensus view, then it follows that each government’s task is to implement policies that effectively boost national financial development. This study tests the new hypothesis that a more fiscally solvent policy approach positively influences financial development. The results, based on a yearly comparison, show that fiscal solvency, approximated by th…
Foreign capital and national development in the debate between Celso Furtado and Maria da Conceição Tavares (1964…1982) Alisson Oliveira de Souza Carvalho and Fábio Antonio de Campos
The aim of this article is to analyse foreign capital and national development in the debate between Celso Furtado and Maria da Conceição Tavares between 1964 and 1982. To this end, it investigates how Furtado’s analytical radicalization, following the 1964 coup d’état in Brazil, enabled him to make a pioneering interpretation of the transnationalization of capital in Latin America and the Caribbean, despite Tavares’ criticism of his stagnationis…
Publicaciones recientes de la Cepal
Evolution of cash transfers in Colombia Karina Acosta, Bibiana Taboada-Arango, Andrea Otero-Cortés and Jaime Bonet-Morón
Social protection programmes have become an effective and indispensable tool for improving the living standards of the poor and vulnerable. This article examines the five main cash transfer programmes in Colombia and studies their history, targeting, coverage, operation and the fiscal commitments they demand. It also reviews the impact evaluations of these programmes and their results on various social indicators. The article is a first attempt t…
The nexus between outward foreign direct investment and exports
This research analyses how outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by emerging nations affects the investing countries’ exports, examining the diversity in this relationship by categorizing developing nations by income (low-income, lower-middle-income and upper-middle-income) and by region (Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean). The research uses fixed and random effects on unbalanced data from 64 developing nations b…
The failure of shock therapy during the Chilean military dictatorship (1974–1979)
This article analyses Chile’s monetary policy following the 1973 military coup and the failed attempt at nominal stabilization during the dictatorship. Two causes of persistent inflation are identified: (i) the narrowing of the fiscal deficit in 1974 was insufficient to curb high monetary issuance and inflation, thus perpetuating the inflation needed to finance the fiscal deficits; and (ii) the perception by economic agents that fiscal needs, fin…
Inflation-targeting systems and exchange rates
In this article the authors seek to determine whether global financial shifts are more costly for emerging economies that have adopted an inflation-targeting system than they are for countries that have no such system in place. The countries’ exchange rates and the volatility of those rates are used as yardsticks for measuring these costs. The authors’ findings indicate that, if a country adopts an inflation-targeting system and witnesses an incr…
Using benchmarking to improve urban mobility
Currently, smart city measurements and rankings often overlook key factors, such as size, population and economic tradition, leading to unrealistic goals being set when cities with different histories are compared with unattainable benchmarks. The present article argues that considering these factors can help city planners to achieve more efficient, incremental improvements. Focusing on mobility, this study compares a mid-sized city in southern B…
The effects of the coronavirus disease pandemic on the male and female labour supply in Brazil
Using an ordered probit model estimation and quarterly data for the 2018–2020 period from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous PNAD), this study sets out to analyse the effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) health crisis on the supply of working hours by men and women in Brazil. The results suggest that the pandemic reduced the probability of men and women supplying larger numbers of working hours, and that women we…
Sectoral composition, export trade partners and value added
This study examine the impact of changes in the sectoral composition of exports and in trade partners on the value added of Brazil and Mexico between 2000 and 2019, within the framework of Latin American structuralism. Employing quantitative input-output structural decomposition analysis, we identify shifts in value added coefficients, production techniques, domestic demand and exports (level, product mix and trade partners). The research brings …
Publicaciones recientes de la Cepal
Progressivity and redistributive power of income tax on wage earners in El Salvador
This work analyses the effects of wage earners’ income tax on vertical equity and income distribution in El Salvador, by assessing the two most recent changes in income tax —the 2011 reform and the 2015 amendment— in light of a comparative methodology based on indices of tax progressivity and redistributive power. The impact of these measures is estimated using microsimulation techniques. The results show that the tax structure in 2017 is weakly …
Economic development in Colombia since the early twentieth century
This article analyses Colombia’s economic growth performance since the early twentieth century, the evolution of the public policies that have contributed to this and its main effects on social development and regional inequalities. Economic performance is divided into three periods: 1905–1929, 1930–1980 and 1981–2023. The first was characterized by the expansion of coffee production, an infrastructure investment boom and the beginning of oil ext…
Determinants of inward foreign direct investment in Colombia
This research delves into the determinants of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in Colombia in the context of the economic integration promoted by recent governments. Colombia’s trade liberalization has sought not only to boost trade flows but also to make the country more attractive to FDI in a framework of fiscal discipline and a stable economic environment conducive to economic growth, albeit characterized by challenging institutional con…
Smart diversification strategies differentiated by countries complexity
This paper evaluates production diversification trajectories and proposes an empirical rule for diversification in pursuit of increased economic complexity. It concludes that the growth gains from complexity are greatest in the early stages of economic development. Less complex countries, having limited productive capabilities, diversify into products that are relatively uncomplex and similar to their existing production structure, and this is an…
Tribute to Maria da Conceição Tavares
This article is a brief tribute to the life and work of Maria da Conceição Tavares, a leading heterodox economist and central figure in Latin American economic thought. Through a chronological narrative, it analyses her theoretical contribution from her time at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to her period as a professor at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)…
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Does the decision to participate in the labour market affect people s subjective well-being
This article provides evidence regarding the potential effect of labour participation on life satisfaction. To take into account possible endogeneity in the decision to participate in the labour market, a two-stage least squares estimation is carried out. Hence, an excluded instrument is used for the decision to participate, where the existence of a weak instrument is rejected. Then, to take into account the ordinal nature of the dependent variab…
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Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 1984
Features: 1) the major trends in the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean in 1984; 2) economic developments by countries in the region examining economic growth, production, employment and unemployment, prices and wages, the external sector, and monetary and fiscal policies; and 3) the evolution of the economy and economic policy in Uruguay in the period 1981-1984.
Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 1991
Published in two volumes - volume I gives insight into the economic trends, the international economy and the role of exchange rate policy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Volume II explores the economic developments by country. Complimentary tables of statistics are included.
Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 1997-1998
The Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1997-1998 is the fiftieth edition in this series. To mark this milestone, a special chapter has been included in this edition which traces the history of the publication and outlines the way in which the economic situation in the region has been viewed during each of the periods examined. Once again, the Survey has been published as a single volume consisting of three parts. Part 1 contains …
Panorama Social de América Latina 2015
En esta edición de 2015 del Panorama Social de América Latina se analizan las tendencias de la pobreza según las mediciones propias de la CEPAL. Asimismo, se revisan los cambios registrados en la distribución del ingreso y en algunas otras dimensiones de la desigualdad. Con el objeto de contribuir al avance de las políticas públicas para superar la pobreza y la desigualdad socioeconómica, además de examinarse las últimas tendencias del gasto soci…
Foreign capital and national development in the debate between Celso Furtado and Maria da Conceição Tavares (1964…1982) Alisson Oliveira de Souza Carvalho and Fábio Antonio de Campos
The aim of this article is to analyse foreign capital and national development in the debate between Celso Furtado and Maria da Conceição Tavares between 1964 and 1982. To this end, it investigates how Furtado’s analytical radicalization, following the 1964 coup d’état in Brazil, enabled him to make a pioneering interpretation of the transnationalization of capital in Latin America and the Caribbean, despite Tavares’ criticism of his stagnationis…
Publicaciones recientes de la Cepal
Evolution of cash transfers in Colombia Karina Acosta, Bibiana Taboada-Arango, Andrea Otero-Cortés and Jaime Bonet-Morón
Social protection programmes have become an effective and indispensable tool for improving the living standards of the poor and vulnerable. This article examines the five main cash transfer programmes in Colombia and studies their history, targeting, coverage, operation and the fiscal commitments they demand. It also reviews the impact evaluations of these programmes and their results on various social indicators. The article is a first attempt t…
The nexus between outward foreign direct investment and exports
This research analyses how outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by emerging nations affects the investing countries’ exports, examining the diversity in this relationship by categorizing developing nations by income (low-income, lower-middle-income and upper-middle-income) and by region (Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean). The research uses fixed and random effects on unbalanced data from 64 developing nations b…
The failure of shock therapy during the Chilean military dictatorship (1974–1979)
This article analyses Chile’s monetary policy following the 1973 military coup and the failed attempt at nominal stabilization during the dictatorship. Two causes of persistent inflation are identified: (i) the narrowing of the fiscal deficit in 1974 was insufficient to curb high monetary issuance and inflation, thus perpetuating the inflation needed to finance the fiscal deficits; and (ii) the perception by economic agents that fiscal needs, fin…
Inflation-targeting systems and exchange rates
In this article the authors seek to determine whether global financial shifts are more costly for emerging economies that have adopted an inflation-targeting system than they are for countries that have no such system in place. The countries’ exchange rates and the volatility of those rates are used as yardsticks for measuring these costs. The authors’ findings indicate that, if a country adopts an inflation-targeting system and witnesses an incr…
Using benchmarking to improve urban mobility
Currently, smart city measurements and rankings often overlook key factors, such as size, population and economic tradition, leading to unrealistic goals being set when cities with different histories are compared with unattainable benchmarks. The present article argues that considering these factors can help city planners to achieve more efficient, incremental improvements. Focusing on mobility, this study compares a mid-sized city in southern B…
The effects of the coronavirus disease pandemic on the male and female labour supply in Brazil
Using an ordered probit model estimation and quarterly data for the 2018–2020 period from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous PNAD), this study sets out to analyse the effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) health crisis on the supply of working hours by men and women in Brazil. The results suggest that the pandemic reduced the probability of men and women supplying larger numbers of working hours, and that women we…
Sectoral composition, export trade partners and value added
This study examine the impact of changes in the sectoral composition of exports and in trade partners on the value added of Brazil and Mexico between 2000 and 2019, within the framework of Latin American structuralism. Employing quantitative input-output structural decomposition analysis, we identify shifts in value added coefficients, production techniques, domestic demand and exports (level, product mix and trade partners). The research brings …
Publicaciones recientes de la Cepal
Progressivity and redistributive power of income tax on wage earners in El Salvador
This work analyses the effects of wage earners’ income tax on vertical equity and income distribution in El Salvador, by assessing the two most recent changes in income tax —the 2011 reform and the 2015 amendment— in light of a comparative methodology based on indices of tax progressivity and redistributive power. The impact of these measures is estimated using microsimulation techniques. The results show that the tax structure in 2017 is weakly …
Economic development in Colombia since the early twentieth century
This article analyses Colombia’s economic growth performance since the early twentieth century, the evolution of the public policies that have contributed to this and its main effects on social development and regional inequalities. Economic performance is divided into three periods: 1905–1929, 1930–1980 and 1981–2023. The first was characterized by the expansion of coffee production, an infrastructure investment boom and the beginning of oil ext…
Determinants of inward foreign direct investment in Colombia
This research delves into the determinants of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in Colombia in the context of the economic integration promoted by recent governments. Colombia’s trade liberalization has sought not only to boost trade flows but also to make the country more attractive to FDI in a framework of fiscal discipline and a stable economic environment conducive to economic growth, albeit characterized by challenging institutional con…
Smart diversification strategies differentiated by countries complexity
This paper evaluates production diversification trajectories and proposes an empirical rule for diversification in pursuit of increased economic complexity. It concludes that the growth gains from complexity are greatest in the early stages of economic development. Less complex countries, having limited productive capabilities, diversify into products that are relatively uncomplex and similar to their existing production structure, and this is an…
Tribute to Maria da Conceição Tavares
This article is a brief tribute to the life and work of Maria da Conceição Tavares, a leading heterodox economist and central figure in Latin American economic thought. Through a chronological narrative, it analyses her theoretical contribution from her time at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to her period as a professor at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)…
Eclac recent publications
Does the decision to participate in the labour market affect people s subjective well-being
This article provides evidence regarding the potential effect of labour participation on life satisfaction. To take into account possible endogeneity in the decision to participate in the labour market, a two-stage least squares estimation is carried out. Hence, an excluded instrument is used for the decision to participate, where the existence of a weak instrument is rejected. Then, to take into account the ordinal nature of the dependent variab…
A stock-flow ecological model for Central America Lorenzo Nalin, Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Leonardo Rojas and Giuliano Toshiro Yajima
This article presents a stock-flow consistent model for the Central American economies. It is part of a project to develop a stock-flow consistent workhorse model applicable to different country cases in Latin America and the Caribbean. The model’s logical and behavioural relationships are based on a set of stylized facts characterizing the Central American economies. The model includes five institutional sectors (consumers, firms, the government…
On tragedy and hope
This article classifies goods according to their technical characteristics of rivalry and excludability, with the inclusion of new categories ranging from zero rivalry to infinite rivalry and from excludability to imposed access. The conceptual framework reveals concrete challenges in meeting the conditions of the first theorem of welfare economics, demonstrating that only private goods are the epitome of market theory, with an immense range of g…
Drivers of the adoption of organic farming in Brazil
The general objective of this study is to identify the combinations of eco-innovation drivers associated with Brazilian municipalities in which a large proportion of farms report that they engage in organic farming. To this end, a theoretical review identified 11 drivers, which were classified as internal and external to the farms. The data were obtained from the 2017 agricultural census, published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Stat…
Reflections from the Chinese perspective on Sino-Brazilian cooperation in the twenty-first century
Sino-Brazilian cooperation has advanced rapidly in the twenty-first century. Although its successes have made it a model for South-South cooperation, the relationship also faces many challenges. This study focuses on the trade imbalance and the resultant risk of “deindustrialization” for Brazil, proposing that fostering technology transfer in the context of investments and situating Chinese companies in Brazil are two ways to mitigate its negativ…
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