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30 November 2023 | Infographic
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is participating in the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), a crucial milestone in the fight against the climate and ecological crisis, which is taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 30 November to 12 December. The ECLAC delegation is headed by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the regional body, who will participate in various sessions of the global forum. You can learn more about ECLAC's participation in COP28 in the following image (click on the image to see it in full).
3 de November de 2023 | Infographic
El valor de las exportaciones de bienes de América Latina y el Caribe caerá 2% en 2023, en un contexto de gran debilidad del comercio mundial, indicó la CEPAL al presentar un nuevo informe anual sobre el comportamiento del comercio exterior de la región. El informe Perspectivas del Comercio Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe, 2023. Cambios estructurales y tendencias en el comercio mundial y regional: retos y oportunidades, fue dado a conocer el jueves 2 de noviembre de 2023 en una conferencia de prensa encabezada por el Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo de las Naciones Unidas, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.
22 de October de 2023 | Infographic
Conoce todas las sesiones en las que la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) impulsará durante la Semana del Clima de América Latina y el Caribe 2023 (LACCW 2023), evento crucial que se llevará a cabo en la Ciudad de Panamá del 23 al 27 de octubre de 2023.
3 October 2023 | Infographic
Between 1990 and 2020, Guatemala achieved progress in the fight against poverty and inequality; however, there are still important structural, wide and persistent gaps in various social, economic and territorial areas. In addition, the recent pandemic generated by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) and its variants caused one of the deepest economic declines in the past 100 years, generating greater poverty and inequality.
3 October 2023 | Infographic
This paper focuses on an analysis of sustainability gaps in the tourism clusters of Puerto Plata and Colonial City in the Dominican Republic, based on the idea that tourism is an economic sector with great potential to contribute to the development of a territory, provided that it is based on sustainability
3 October 2023 | Infographic
Despite efforts, large gaps in access to the effective enjoyment of the right to education persist in Guatemala, particularly for rural populations and Indigenous peoples. The unprecedented educational crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased gaps, school dropout rates, learning losses, illiteracy and the slowdown in average schooling levels
3 October 2023 | Infographic
Based on this conceptual framework, gaps corresponding to inequalities are identified, either between countries (horizontal) or between social groups or areas in each country (vertical), based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
3 October 2023 | Infographic
Aanalysis of socioeconomic inequality that involves studying the distances in access to income between the various social strata based on household income in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, but adjusting income to the National Accounts in each country.
3 October 2023 | Infographic
Between 1990 and 2019, the Dominican Republic showed progress in the fight against poverty and inequality. However, its current levels are high when compared to countries of similar development in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the world. As a result, there are still important structural gaps, defined as the different expressions of inequality, which are wide and persistent, in different areas and among different groups of people, and this hinders development.
3 October 2023 | Infographic
Understanding demographic change in Central America, Mexico and the Hispanic Caribbean, with emphasis on aging, is fundamental for social protection systems. The importance of addressing social protection gaps lies in their manifestation in terms of insufficient coverage, inadequate benefits or lack of accessibility, which prevents progress towards universal protection for all.
3 October 2023 | Infographic
Guatemala and Honduras are among the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the highest levels of poverty, with the lowest proportion of the population dependent on clean fuels and technologies, and the highest use of firewood. Available estimates and statistics show that a large part of the population, particularly in rural areas, uses firewood as the main cooking fuel. Although there is progress in terms of electricity coverage, there is an nderconsumption of electricity, since the most used energy source at the residential level is firewood.
3 de October de 2023 | Infographic
Coberturas y usos de la tierra en la región Brunca
3 de October de 2023 | Infographic
Coberturas y usos de la tierra en el Territorio Santa Cruz-Carrillo (región Chorotega) de Costa Rica
22 de September de 2023 | Infographic
Sistemas de información: transformar datos en información, información en conocimiento y conocimiento en decisión política. Eje 9 de la Estrategia de Montevideo para la Implementación de la Agenda Regional de Género en el marco del Desarrollo Sostenible hacia 2030.
1 August 2023 | Infographic
We have the honour to invite you to the series of lectures by distinguished scholars to be held in 2023 and 2024 as part of the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of ECLAC.
19 de July de 2023 | Infographic
Guatemala y Honduras se encuentran entre los países de América Latina y el Caribe con mayor nivel de pobreza, con menor proporción de población con dependencia de combustibles y tecnologías limpios y mayor uso de leña. Las estimaciones y estadísticas disponibles muestran que buena parte de la población, particularmente la de zonas rurales, utiliza leña como principal combustible para cocinar. Aunque hay avances en cuanto a la cobertura eléctrica, existe un subconsumo de electricidad, pues a nivel residencial la fuente de energía más utilizada es la leña.
19 de July de 2023 | Infographic
La cadena productiva del café en El Salvador y en Guatemala muestra que ambos países en desarrollo concentran sus estrategias productivas en el eslabón de la producción, el cual genera y se apropia de la menor cantidad de valor. Pese a la experiencia en la producción de café, la participación de las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (MIPyMES) tiene una menor apropiación del valor en comparación con empresas transnacionales y países importadores y consumidores en aquellos
19 de July de 2023 | Infographic
Se aborda el cambio demográfico en Centroamérica, México y el Caribe hispano, destacando el envejecimiento, para los sistemas de protección social. La importancia de abordar las brechas de protección social reside en su manifestación en términos de cobertura insuficiente, prestaciones inadecuadas o falta de accesibilidad, lo que impide avanzar hacia una protección universal para todos

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