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Title A decade of light and shadow : Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s / José Antonio Ocampo, Juan Martin, editors
Published Santiago, Chile : Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2003

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Description 355 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Libros de la CEPAL ; 76
Libros de la CEPAL ; 76
Contents Machine derived contents note: The global and regional context 27 -- 1. Loss of world economic dynamism and rising inequality 29 -- 2. Trends towards greater internationalization in the new -- w orld context 36 -- 3. Policies and agents of internationalization 12 -- 4. G lobalization of values 47 -- 5. Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean 51 -- 6. Latin America and the Caribbean in a global context 54 -- II. Connections between the internal and external environments 59 -- I. International integration policies 60 -- 2. Changes in external trade and regional heterogeneity 71 -- 3. Size and composition of capital flows 83 -- 4. International labour m igration 95 -- . M acroeconom ic perform ance 99 -- 1. M acroeconom ic policy 99 -- 2. Insufficient recovery of growth, investment and -- productivity 110 -- 3. Inflation 120 -- 4 Financial crises 122 -- IV SVi icture anid iperformance of goods-p roducing se tors 129 -- Irenids Ib hroad sectors of ecolnon ic acti it 130 -- 2 The agriculture and forestry sector. 138 -- 3. The m jing sector 151 -- 1. The industrial sector 158 -- V I infrastructure service sectors. 175 -- i. Telelec m mn unications 1 76 -- 2. FE n ergy reform s 180 -- 3. Dirinkng water and sanitarion services 195 -- 4 ransport 2 3 -- .I lThe social sectors 215 -- 1 The region-wide demographic transition and the -- failure to take advantage of the demographic bonus 217 -- 2. Employment: low growth, the shift to services and the -- increase in inform al em ploym ent 223 -- 3. 'The persistence of poverty and inequality 231 -- i. G ender equity 213 -- 5. Public spending and reforms in the social sectors 249 -- VIt. Creating opportunities for sustainable development 261 -- I. The international environmental context of the 1990s 262 -- 2 Institutional progress in relation to environmental -- m anagem ent 26 -- 3. O ther actors 27 -- 4. Fnvironm ental policy insrum ents 279 -- 5 Environmental developments in the region 284 -- VIll. Economic anLd social performance in the Caribbean 293 -- i Trade and foreign direct investment 294 -- 2. Macroeconomic performance and reforrns 302 -- 3. Production profile 310 -- 4. Changcs in the social structure 313 -- 5. The environment and sustainable development 318 -- IX. The restructuring of national territories 321 -- 1. Population distribution and geographical mobility 322 -- 2. The politics and financing of decentralization 330 -- 3. Territorial heterogeneity 336
Summary "The 1990s were unquestionably a time of transition and reorientation in several aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean's economic, social and political development. As in any period with these characteristics, the effects of long-standing processes mingled and interacted with incipient change. When the decade ended, ECLAC wished to contribute to the evaluation of the main events that marked the consolidation of reform in the region, recognizing of course that the speed of progress varied from country to country and from sector to sector." "This publication offers an analysis of the international situation and the connections between this and the region; of new approaches to macroeconomic management, and the effects of these; of the development of production activities, both in the industrial, mining agricultural and forestry sectors and in services; of developments in the social sectors, including trends in employment, poverty and income distribution, gender equity, the demographic transition public social spending and social sector reforms; of the creation of sustainable development potential and territorial."--BOOK JACKET
Notes "July 2003"--verso t.p
"LC/G.2205-P"--verso t.p
"Sales No. E.03.II.G.79"--verso t.p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-355)
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020285 -- 1982-
Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005678
Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020286 -- Statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001414
Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020286
Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005678 -- Statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001414
Genre/Form Statistics.
Author Martin, Juan, 1941-
Ocampo, José Antonio.
United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
LC no. 2005465599
ISBN 9211214017