Regional economic integration is stronger when complementarity and synergy effects are generated between “de jure” economic integration and close economic relations achieved autonomously through market-led /business-driven integration. This observation is important when we consider bringing close...
The report provides an overview of the economic performance for 2017 of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago plus the eight Member States of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), and the outlook for 2018. Data were collected from a review of reports...
McLean, Sheldon
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Hendrickson, Michael
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Pantin, Machel
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Skerrette, Nyasha
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Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2017–2018
The Caribbean receives some of the highest levels of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the world, with
many economies having FDI to GDP ratios above 10 per cent in 2012. In the recent past, FDI flows have
been particularly volatile, with the financial crisis in 2008 greatly reducing FDI flows to...
Desde el inicio de los años 2000, la inversión extranjera directa (IED) realizada por compañías latinoamericanas viene creciendo de manera pronunciada. Si bien la mayoría de los flujos de inversiones corresponden a empresas radicadas en las grandes economías (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, México y Co...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) by Latin American companies has increased sharply since the beginning of the 2000s. While most investment flows correspond to firms from large economies (i.e. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia), small economies have also witnessed the increasing interna...
El presente documento analiza los avances de la Alianza del Pacífico (AP) y el MERCOSUR en la regulación internacional de la inversión extranjera. A partir de dicho análisis, se delinean los posibles contenidos de un eventual acuerdo sobre inversión entre ambas agrupaciones. De este modo se esper...
Herreros, Sebastián
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García-Millán, Tania
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Opciones para la convergencia entre la Alianza del Pacífico y el Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR): la regulación de la inversión extranjera directa
Muchos países han diseñado políticas de incentivos para atraer inversión extranjera directa (IED) y promover exportaciones basadas en la creación de zonas especiales para la exportación o zonas francas. Sin embargo, la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC) puede considerar a algunos de esos ince...
Although the growth performance has been mixed in the Caribbean year, on averaged the economies posted an economic growth of 0.7 per cent in 2016. The goods producers achieved -3.1 per cent growth, due to weak commodity prices. While the service producers achieved 2.1 growth. Despite the anemic g...
Although Chinese corporations were relatively unknown in Latin America until a few years ago, their direct investments in the region have averaged about US$10 billion per year since 2010. Their presence and economic leverage have become very significant in many industries and countries of the reg...
World economic growth was somewhat disappointing in 2015 due to a series of negative shockswhich affected the performance of a number of emerging and advanced economies. Among these were the continuing decline in commodity prices, periods of financial market volatility, lower capital flowsand sub...
Alleyne, Dillon
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Mc Lean, Sheldon
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Hendrickson, Michael
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Pantin, Machel
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Skerrette, Nyasha
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Doorgadeen, Roberta
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Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2015-2016