Resources
Getting Your Business Started
in Latin America and the Caribbean
Practical Guide to Latin
America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
LANIC – Latin American Network Information Center
http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/
Latin Focus
http://www.latin-focus.com/
The CIA World Fact Book
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Latin Business Chronicle
http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/frontpage.aspx
Destination Latin America: A Near-Shore Alternative, A.T Kearney:
http://www.atkearney.com/shared_res/pdf/Near-Shore_Latin_America_S.pdf
Inter-American Development Bank
http://www.iadb.org/index.cfm
Transparency International
http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2006
United Nations – Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean
http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN
Crime Hinders Development, Democracy in Latin America
http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2005/Apr/21-965427.html
Capital in Latin America
http://www.goodwinprocter.com/getfile.aspx?filepath=/Files/Publications/HF_LatinAmericanPE_6_19_06.pdf
Convergence in Latin America? Increasing Investment Interest
Despite the Risks
www.goodwinprocter.com/getfile.aspx?filepath=/Files/Publications/HF_LatinAmericanPE_6_19_06.pdf
Business
World Bank – Doing Business
http://www.doingbusiness.org/
Technology
Global Outsourcing Report 2005, Global Equations:
http://globalequations.com/Global%20Outsourcing%20Report.pdf
Can Latin America Challenge India?, Business Week, 2006
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_05/b3969427.htm
Wireless & Voip – A Collection of Working Papers
http://www.nextbillion.net/files/Darrell%20Owen%20Wireless-VoIP%20Collection.pdf
Science and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean: An
Overview (2004) Published by the United Nations University Institute
for New Technologies
http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/unuint/200404.html
Overcoming IP Pessimism in Latin America
http://www.touchbriefings.co.uk/pdf/1842/Kermani.pdf
Software Piracy
http://www.willisms.com/archives/piracyratebyregion.gif
Medical Technologies
http://devicelink.com/mx/archive/07/03/gross_x.html
https://www.espicom.com/Prodcat.nsf/Search/00000893?OpenDocument
http://www.ita.doc.gov/doctm/healthcare_brazil_chile_0407.html
Telecenters for Socioeconomic and Rural Development in Latin
America and the Caribbean
Executive Summary -
www.iadb.org.regions/itdev/telecenters/index.htm
Power Point –
www.iadb.org/sds/itdev/telecenters/presentation.pdf
Satellite Television
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/satellite-tv.htm
Internet Protocol Television
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/Internet_protocol_television.html
http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/iptv/topic06.html
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
http://www.fcc.gov/voip/
http://ezinearticles.com/?VoIP-Services-vs.-Traditional-Phone-Services&id=478473
Wireless Broadband
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_broadband
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi)
http://www.wi-fihotspotlist.com/faq.html
http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/ISEO-rgbtcspd/reviews/20040210/wifi_nutshell.html
WiMAX
http://www.wimax.com/education
Broadband Over Power Lines
http://www.isoc.org/briefings/013/
Brazil
Brazil Country Brief
Brazil Labor
http://www.brazilink.org/labour.asp
Similarities and Differences- International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS), United States Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (US GAAP) and accounting practices adopted in Brazil-
Pocket Guide
http://www.pwc.com/gx/eng/about/svcs/corporatereporting/BrazilSandD.pdf
Brazil Company Reference
http://www.brazilcompany.com/index.html
Planner Investment Bank of Brazil
http://www.planner.com.br/
Brazil Institute
http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/
Chile
Chile Data
US Chile Free Trade Agreement
http://www.state.gov/e/eeb/rls/fs/22667.htm
Chile Foreign Investment Committee
http://www.foreigninvestment.cl/index/index.asp
Chile- Doing Business, Explore Economies
http://www.doingbusiness.org/ExploreEconomies/?economyid=41
Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) Chile
http://www.worldbank.org/ifa/rosc_aa_chl.pdf
Chile Leads the Way with Individual Unemployment Accounts- Brief
Analysis by William B. Conerly, Ph.D.
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba424/
Mexico
How to do business in Mexico
http://leeiwan.wordpress.com/how-to-do-business-in-mexico-parts-1-28/
Mexico 501 Learning to Live in Mexico- Hiring Someone in Mexico
http://www.mexico501.com/blog/mwshead/20070407116/hiring-someone-in-mexico
Mexico Connect- Mexico Labor Market and Laws
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/laborlaw.html
The Mexican Bank for Foreign Trade:
http://www.mexico-trade.com/
Labor Force
http://www.investinmexico.com.mx/pied/cds/pied_bancomext/why_mexico/f_filename.htm
Talk: Mexico/CIA World Factbook 2002
http://wikitravel.org/en/Talk:Mexico/CIA_World_Factbook_2002_import
Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) Mexico
http://wikitravel.org/en/Talk:Mexico/CIA_World_Factbook_2002_import
Impacts of National Information Technology Environments on Business
http://www.american.edu/initeb/js5518a/Country-analysis-mexico.html
Doing Business in Aguascalientes:
http://www.aguascalientes.gob.mx/idiomas/ingles/economy/presentacion_ing.pdf
The Critical Role of the Software Industry: Focus Mexico, CompTia:
http://www.softwarechoice.org/download_files/CompTia-MexicoEnglish.pdf
Doing Business in Mexico 2007, World Bank and the International
Finance Corporation:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Documents/Reports_07/DB2007_Mexico_English.pdf
Mexico Business Opportunities and Legal Framework, Goodrich,
Riquelme y Asociados:
http://www.goodrichriquelme.com/PDF/MEXICO_BUSINESS_OPPORTUNITIES_2c.pdf
Foreign Worker's Guide to Labor and Employment Laws in Mexico,
NAALC:
http://www.naalc.org/migrant/english/pdf/mgmexfwg_en.pdf
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