International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean: Recovery in an uncertain context
This first edition of International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the continuation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy with a new title, covers 2017 and contains three chapters. The first chapter describes the current international context and the recovery of trade in the region. Chapter II reviews the region’s performance in global trade in services in general and in modern services in particular, since 2005. Chapter III provides an overview of Latin America and the Caribbean’s share of the world agricultural trade since 2000 and offers some policy recommendations for increasing the sector’s contribution to regional development.
This first edition of International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the continuation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy with a new title, covers 2017 and contains three chapters. The first chapter describes the current international context and the recovery of trade in the region. Chapter II reviews the region’s performance in global trade in services in general and in modern services in particular, since 2005. Chapter III provides an overview of Latin America and the Caribbean’s share of the world agricultural trade since 2000 and offers some policy recommendations for increasing the sector’s contribution to regional development.
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Alicia Bárcena<br />
Executive Secretary<br />
Mario Cimoli<br />
Deputy Executive Secretary a.i<br />
Officer <strong>in</strong> Charge, Division of <strong>International</strong> <strong>Trade</strong> <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> Integration<br />
Ricardo Pérez<br />
Chief, Publications <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> Web Services Division<br />
<strong>International</strong> <strong>Trade</strong> <strong>Outlook</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Lat<strong>in</strong></strong> <strong>America</strong> <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Caribbe<strong>an</strong></strong>, <strong>for</strong>merly known as <strong>Lat<strong>in</strong></strong> <strong>America</strong> <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Caribbe<strong>an</strong></strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> World Economy,<br />
is <strong>the</strong> <strong>an</strong>nual report prepared by <strong>the</strong> Division of <strong>International</strong> <strong>Trade</strong> <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> Integration of ECLAC.<br />
The production of <strong>the</strong> report was overseen by Mario Cimoli, Officer <strong>in</strong> Charge of <strong>the</strong> Division of <strong>International</strong> <strong>Trade</strong> <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> Integration. Keiji<br />
Inoue, Senior Economic Affairs Officer with that Division, was responsible <strong>for</strong> its technical coord<strong>in</strong>ation. The follow<strong>in</strong>g staff members of <strong>the</strong><br />
Division assisted <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> preparation <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> draft<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>the</strong> chapters: José Elías Durán, Sebastián Herreros <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> N<strong>an</strong>no Mulder.<br />
The authors are grateful <strong>for</strong> <strong>in</strong>puts provided by Mari<strong>an</strong>o Álvarez, Prachi Agarwal, Rol<strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong>o Avendaño, S<strong>an</strong>tacruz B<strong>an</strong>acloche, Filippo<br />
Bontad<strong>in</strong>i, Sebastián Castres<strong>an</strong>a, T<strong>an</strong>ia García-Millán, John Hewitt, Valeria Jordán, Zebulun Kreiter, Javier Meneses, Ana María Palacios,<br />
Mauricio Pereira, Wilson Peres, Adrián Rodríguez, Nunzia Saporito, Gastón Rigollet <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> Dayna Zaclicever.<br />
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