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Missing data represent an important limitation for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. This paper presents a new cross-country panel dataset with no missing value. We make use of a new method of multiple imputation that has recently been developed by Honaker and King (2010) to deal specifically with time-series cross-section data at the country-level. We apply this method to construct a large dataset containing a great number of indicators measuring six key country-specific dimensions: innovation and technological capabilities, education system and human capital, infrastructures, economic competitiveness, political-institutional factors, and social capital. The CANA panel dataset thus obtained provides a rich and complete set of 41 indicators for 134 countries in the period 1980-2008 (for a total of 3886 countryyear observations). The empirical analysis shows the reliability of the dataset and its usefulness for crosscountry analyses of national systems, growth and development. The new dataset is publicly available.

El Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR), mundialmente reconocido como una. - de las entidades de integración regional más avanzadas, atrae crecientemente. - a empresas multinacionales (EMN) y origina muchas inversiones en el exterior,. - pese a brechas persistentes en innovación y competitividad. Aquí se analizan. - las tendencias de internacionalización y tecnología en el MERCOSUR relativas. - al comercio, las actividades de EMN y los sistemas nacionales de innovación.. - Mediante el análisis empírico, basado en la estimación de modelos gravitacionales. - tradicionales, se comprueba el efecto de la inversión extranjera directa (IED). - -desde el exterior y en el exterior- en las exportaciones, según su contenido. - tecnológico. La distribución del ingreso permite aproximar las características. - institucionales de los países integrantes y, por ello, se analiza su influencia como. - uno de los aspectos estructurales específicos. Los resultados confirman que las. - capacidades tecnológicas y de internacionalización -tanto de países inversores. - como receptores de IED- afectan al comercio dentro del bloque. (Rev CEPAL/GIGA)

Abstract: In Mexico, diabetes represents a serious public health problem and a high-cost disease for the health system. Health research is essential for generating new knowledge to combat such a serious issue, however, there is not enough information on how to generate and use it. This paper examines the public funding of 303 diabetes research projects, granted by the National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico between 2002 and 2014. The projects were systematized and classified according to their type of research, discipline or subject, and aim of knowledge. Considering these information, an econometric model that links the funding with the characteristics of the projects was prepared. The results show that the funding is focused on the basic and biomedical areas, particularly on genetic research, and also that diabetes research resources have increased over time, not steadily, but rather cyclically. In diabetes research projects there is a high level of concentration at several dimensions: research areas, topics, objects, institutions conducting research, and regions. The analysis of the resource allocation suggests that Mexico needs a stronger and oriented diabetes research agenda, including in its bases discussions about balance between basic and applied research, and about oriented research towards practical implementations. The importance of promoting health systems research to improve diabetes care is also discussed, as well as implementing mechanisms to assess the impact of diabetes research in short, medium and long term, as part of Mexico's science and technology policy.