Contributions

  • Durán Lima, José Elías - Contributor
  • LaFleur, Marcelo - Contributor
  • United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. División de Comercio Internacional e Integración - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Naciones Unidas, CEPAL, Santiago, Chile, Chile

Language

English

Word Count

20,750 words, Guess

Page Count

83 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCHF1480.5.Z4 E185 2010

Description

Emerging economies in Asia and Latin America have increased their contributions to world production, finance, and trade in the past decades. In doing so, the two regions have deepened their economic ties with significant implications for the recovery of their respective economies. In this paper we discuss the impact of the crisis on the commercial patterns inside and outside the Forum for East Asia Latin American Cooperation (FEALAC) bloc. We describe the FEALAC economy and identify existing trade and investment structures, and find important structural shortcomings such as a high dependence on inter-industry trade between Asia and Latin America. We argue that this is also an opportunity for greater integration into bi-regional value-added chains and that trade and cooperation between the two regions can be an effective means to counterbalance the adverse effects of the current financial turmoil.

Subjects

Topics

Foreign economic relationsGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Forum for East Asia Latin America Cooperation

Series Statement

  • Serie comercio internacional -- 97
  • Serie Comercio internacional (Santiago, Chile) -- 97.

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