This publication, entitled the CEPAL Review, is covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), published by Thomson ISI, and in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), published by the American Economic Association

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Revista CEPAL

OSVALDO SUNKEL
Chairman of the Editorial Council

ANDRÉ HOFMAN
Director

MIGUEL TORRES
Technical Editor

Overcoming the "empty box syndrome". Determinants of income distribution in Latin America
Ivonne González and Ricardo Martner

Free trade agreements in Latin America since 1990: an evaluation of export diversification
Alfonso Dingemans and César Ross

Ecuador: defining and measuring multidimensional poverty, 2006-2010
Andrés Mideros M.

The biodiesel market and public policy: a comparative analysis of Argentina and Brazil
Georges Gérard Flexor, Karina Yoshie Martins Kato and Marina Yesica Recalde

Production structure of the services sector in countries at different development levels
Kęnia Barreiro de Souza, Suzana Quinet de Andrade Bastos and Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli

Keynesian economic policies: reflections on the Brazilian economy, 1995-2009
Fábio Henrique Bittes Terra and Fernando Ferrari Filho

Enterprise creation and economic recovery: the case of Rio Grande do Sul
Mario Duarte Canever and André Carraro

The health insurance market: lessons on the conflict between equivalence and solidarity
Andras Uthoff, José Miguel Sánchez and Rolando Campusano

Chile's new middle classes: a cohort analysis
Oscar Mac-Clure

Distributional effects of eliminating the differential tax treatment of business and personal income in Chile
Claudio A. Agostini, Claudia Martínez A. and Barbara Flores


Explanatory notes
The following symbols are used in tables in the Review:
3 puntos
Three dots indicate that data are not available or are not separately reported.
Guion
A dash indicates that the amount is nil or negligible.
blank
A blank space in a table means that the item in question is not applicable.
Guion
A minus sign indicates a deficit or decrease, unless otherwise specifi ed.
coma
A point is used to indicate decimals.
slash
A slash indicates a crop year or fiscal year; e.g., 2006/2007.
Raya
Use of a hyphen between years (e.g., 2006-2007) indicates reference to the complete period considered, including the beginning and end years.
The word "tons" means metric tons and the word "dollars" means United States dollars, unless otherwise stated. References to annual rates of growth or variation signify compound annual rates. Individual fi gures and percentages in tables do not necessarily add up to the corresponding totals because of rounding.
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