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Study Explores Link between Economic Growth, Social Cohesion and Equality in the Region

2 Dec 2013 | News

While economic growth is a basic requirement for progressing towards more egalitarian, fair and inclusive societies, it does not guarantee that countries are on the way to achieving those goals, according to the study Economic growth and social cohesion in Latin America and the Caribbean (in Spanish), which has been published by the ECLAC Subregional headquarters in Mexico. According to the authors, Mariela Buonomo and Pablo Yanes, it is vital to consider the characteristics and quality of economic growth, the framework of rights in which it occurs, its distributi…

CEPAL Review Celebrates 37 Years Supporting Research on the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

2 Dec 2013 | News

With over 110 editions published in Spanish and English (as well as special issues in French, Portuguese and Mandarin), the CEPAL Review constantly receives submissions from researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean and elsewhere analysing the many challenges currently facing the region and the suitable policies for tackling them. More than 1,000 free-access articles have been published throughout its 37 years and these attest to its focused vision of development that covers not only the economic dimension but also considers social, education, gender, environment and all topics …

ECLAC Fosters Territorial Development in Colombia with Competitiveness Indicator

2 Dec 2013 | News

To guide public policymaking and stimulate private decisions that can combine to yield higher levels of territorial development, the Colombia Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) periodically presents the Competitiveness ranking for national departments. According to the authors of the report, this indicator of economic, social and institutional development shows how departments use their various structural assets according to specific patterns of specialization. The following six factors are analysed in the recently launched Com…

Illiteracy Affects Almost 38 Million People in Latin America and the Caribbean

2 Dec 2013 | News

On average, 9% of those aged 15 and over are completely illiterate in Latin American and Caribbean countries (about 38 million people), according to estimates based on official data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, says a study prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which examines the main relevant strategies currently developed in the region. If we consider functional illiteracy (which means the lack of skills and abilities that people need to function in various life situations), the figure is significantly higher - according to the documen…

The United States Offers Opportunities for Organic Growers from Latin America and the Caribbean

2 Dec 2013 | News

The United States organic food market has shown impressive growth in the past 20 years, with sales rising from one billion dollars in 1990 to 31.5 billion dollars in 2011. Even shortly after the financial crisis, from 2009 to 2010, the growth in sales was 7.7 percent according to the Organic Trade Association. In 2012 the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated the size of the organic market in the United States to 31.4 billion dollars. The rapid increase in consumer demand for organic products exceeded the domestic supply capacity and traders of organic products have relied s…

ECLAC Launches Study with Recommendations on Promoting Trade and Investment between Latin America and China

2 Dec 2013 | News

China plays a central role in the process of rapid change under way in the world economy. By 2017, the country's GDP is expected to outstrip that of the United States - making it the world's largest economy. This buoyancy has resulted in a strong demand for raw materials that often come from Latin America and the Caribbean. Between 2000 and 2012, the trade among China and the region therefore increased by 21 times to stand at USD 250 billion. China is now the main destination for exports from Brazil, Chile and Peru, the second destination for Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and Uruguay, the th…

ECLAC Promotes Disaster Risk Management in the Caribbean in Association with ESCAP

2 Dec 2013 | News

The Third Regional Strategy on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM 3) will be officially launched at the 8th Annual Conference on the subject, which will be held in Jamaica from 2 to 6 December 2013. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and its partners are behind this initiative. The ECLAC Subregional headquarters for the Caribbean in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, has been working closely with the region's countries, in association with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). In September this year,…

Government Representatives and United Nations Experts Reviewed Advances and Challenges of Landlocked South American Countries

19 Nov 2013 | News

Government representatives from seven South American countries and United Nations experts met on 19 November in Asunción, Paraguay, to review the advances and challenges of the agreements adopted in 2003 in Almaty (Kazakhstan) in regard to landlocked countries worldwide. According to United Nations data, there are 31 landlocked developing countries, including two in Latin America (Bolivia and Paraguay). The Regional Meeting in Preparation for the Comprehensive 10-Year Review Conference on the Implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action was organized by the Government of Paragu…

ECLAC and OECD Analyzed Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

13 Nov 2013 | News

Experts from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a Regional Consultation on Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean on 14-15 November 2013, at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile. During the event specialists, policy makers and practitioners from Latin America and the Caribbean dialogued on the dimensions of inclusive growth, its conceptualization and measuring, as well as the policies that can be put in place to combine strong output growth with a more even distribution of …

Secretary-General Appoints Juan Somavía of Chile Special Adviser on Interregional Policy Cooperation

8 Nov 2013 | News

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on 7 November 2013 the appointment of Juan Somavía of Chile, former Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), as his Special Adviser on Interregional Policy Cooperation. Mr. Somavía will help develop a two-year strategy of policy cooperation on selected strategic issues among the United Nations regional commissions based on ongoing activities and will contribute to facilitate interregional policy cooperation initiatives. Mr. Somavía will perform his tasks based in Santiago, Chile, at the offices of th…

"Access to Energy Services Is Vital for Poverty Reduction"

4 Nov 2013 | News

See photo gallery Access to quality energy services is a vital factor in reducing poverty and improving the environmental conditions for the most socially vulnerable groups, according to Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado, speaking on Thursday 31 October in Montevideo, Uruguay. The senior United Nations official took part in the launch of the study Energy: a vision of the challenges and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was jointly produced (in Spanish) by various regional agencies linked to the energy sector. The document analyses the current situation and main …

Civil Society Organizations Presented Index of Women's Well-being

17 Oct 2013 | News

"Without data, there can be no public policies", stated Sonia Montaño, Director of the ECLAC Gender Affairs Division, at the presentation of ISO-Quito Reloaded, an instrument developed by the Marcosur Feminist Association to include indicators on women's social well-being, economic and political parity and compliance with legislative commitments on gender equality in the region. At the side event held on 16 October during the twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is being held in the Dominican Republic, Lucy Garrido, Magdalena Gutiérrez …

OECD, ECLAC and CAF to launch 2014 Latin American Economic Outlook

16 Oct 2013 | News

The OECD will present the eighth edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook: Logistics and competitiveness for development on Friday 18 October at 5:00 p.m,. in the margins of the Ibero-American Summit in Panama City, Panama. This year's report focuses on how the region can enhance its logistics performance and makes policy recommendations on strengthening trade links, diversifying into higher value-added industries and optimising competitiveness. It also makes suggestions on how countries in the region can embrace the new opportunities arising from shifting production structures. An…

Protecting Migrant Persons' Human Rights Is a Priority for Latin America and the Caribbean

1 Oct 2013 | News

Latin America and the Caribbean's migration challenges will be discussed at the Second High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, which will be held on 3 and 4 October at the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present the contents of the report from the Latin America and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for the High-Level Dialogue, which was organized together with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and held in Santiago, Chile, on 10 and 1…

Latin America Requires Innovation, Growth and Distribution Policies

1 Oct 2013 | News

Latin America requires innovation, growth and income-distribution policies all at the same time if it is to tackle pending challenges for development, according to a new publication from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters in Mexico. In the document Economic growth, innovation and inequality in Latin America: Post-Washington Consensus advances, setbacks and issues, authors Gabriela Dutrénit, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Martín Puchet Anyul (with the collaboration of Eduardo Moreno) examine the development of the region's economi…

Santo Domingo Will Be the Women's Capital in October

1 Oct 2013 | News

The situation of Latin American and Caribbean women is once more at the heart of regional debate thanks to the meeting organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to review fulfilment of national gender equality commitments in a few weeks time. The twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held from 15 to 18 October 2013 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to bring together authorities, experts, international officials and representatives from civil society and the business sector. Organized b…

Narrowing Social Inclusion Gaps for Young People Is Key for Latin America

1 Oct 2013 | News

Latin American young people currently suffer from high unemployment, low social security coverage and labour market participation characterized by low productivity and wages, according to the Officer in Charge of the Argentina Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Martín Abeles, speaking at the International Meeting on Social Inclusion, Youth and Gender Equality. IXth Forum of Ministers of Social Development for Latin America, organized by UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme, and held at the Palacio San Martín i…

ECLAC Will Host Preparatory Meeting of the Sustainable Transport Forum for Latin American and Caribbean

1 Oct 2013 | News

Accelerating development and implementation of sustainable transport policies in the region is one of the main objectives of the Sustainable Transport Forum for Latin American and Caribbean, created in 2011. The next preparatory meeting of this forum will take place on 29 and 30 October at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The first Forum meeting took place in 2011 in Bogota, Colombia, and was organized by the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Colombia's Ministry of Transport. Since 2004, UNCRD has been…

In Brasilia, Ministers Will Discuss Planning As a Development Tool

1 Oct 2013 | News

Latin American and Caribbean Ministers of Planning will meet in Brasilia at the Regional Council for Planning (CRP), an interministerial body led by ECLAC's Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), where they will discuss planning and public management as tools for the governance of development in the region. ILPES, which is part of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), will invite Ministers and Heads of Planning from the region's governments on 21 and 22 November 2013 in the capital of Brazil to present an u…

Workshop in Montevideo Analyses Taxation of High Incomes to Reduce Inequality

1 Oct 2013 | News

At the Workshop on inequality and high income tax, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 1 and 2 October, representatives from governments and academia discussed the tools available to Latin American countries to tax high incomes and improve equitable distribution. The workshop was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), along with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and Uruguay's Centre for Fiscal Studies (CEF). The event was opened by Juan Pablo Jiménez, Director of the ECLAC office in Montevideo, F…

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