The Mercosur Economic Research Network (Merconet) was created in 1999 to generate knowledge to inform the Mercosur regional integration process.
Knowledge-based economy not only affects well developed countries but also the performance and possibilities of small economic actors positioned on less developed countries.
The services sector is increasingly important to the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, but productivity remains relatively low.
The Caribbean is a diverse group of countries, both culturally and economically. Most of them, however, face daunting development challenges, including pervasive crime, unemployment and an underdeveloped formal (private) sector.
This project will enable CUSO - a Canadian not-for-profit volunteer-sending organization - to work with the Costa Rican association of small and medium tourism enterprises of the greater metropolitan area of San Salvador (AMIGAM) in designing a mo
Like many countries in Latin America, Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru undertook structural reforms during the 1980s and 1990s with a view to achieving macroeconomic stability and economic growth.