Provisional agenda. Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

Intergenerational relations: creating a world for all ages so that no one is left behind

This paper, prepared jointly by the five regional commissions of the United Nations, explores the social and economic challenges and opportunities of demographic shifts towards multigenerational societies across the countries covered by the five regional commissions. It discusses the latest evidence on demographic trends and intergenerational relations, labour markets, social protection, care, living arrangements and digitalization across regions, and it provides recommendations to build societies for all ages. With a strong interdisciplinary and interregional focus, the paper addresses interg…

Annotated provisional agenda. Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

Comparative analysis of four advanced single windows in Asia: Hong Kong, China; Japan; Republic of Korea and Singapore

The establishment of a single window is a crucial step in the move towards paperless trade, generating significant savings in time and money for companies as well as the different public bodies involved in foreign trade. Under the Trade Facilitation Agreement of the World Trade Organization, which entered into force in 2017, all the Organization’s members committed to maintaining or establishing a single window. Asia is home to some of the world’s largest trading economies and to several of the most advanced single windows. This report analyses and compares the main functionalities of four: th…

Rapporteurs Report on Caribbean Development Roundtable. Alva Baptiste Minister For External Affairs, International Trade, Civil Aviation and Diaspora Affairs of Saint Lucia

Industrial strategies for tackling the challenges of the twenty-first century: trends in objectives, rationales and design in policy and academia

This report documents global shifts in of industrial policy objectives and the rationales behind public intervention to address them. Drawing from a selected sample of policy documents from international organizations and countries with literature on innovation and technical change, this report presents a classification of objectives and rationales. This classification is used to code systematically the academic literature on industrial policy to analyse changes in objectives and rationales in publications on countries of different income groups. The findings show increased attention to social…

Methodological recommendations on the measurement of the quality of household survey figures

This document begins with a diagnosis of the practices used by the region’s national statistical offices to measure the quality of estimates, particularly those yielded by household sample surveys. A conceptual framework related to the scope of the study is provided below, with a particular focus on replicated weight techniques for estimating sampling errors. Based on the review of the literature carried out, the various quality criteria that can be used to determine the statistical quality of estimates are presented in a logical order, and a work flow for applying the examined quality criteri…

Guidelines for mainstreaming the gender perspective in statistical production

In order to generate data that accurately capture the persistence and magnitude of societal inequalities, the gender and intersectional perspectives must be mainstreamed into statistical production. As noted in the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030 (2016), it is also crucial for “transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions” (ECLAC, 2017a). Official statistics are therefore an indispensable source of information for use in the design and implementatio…

Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024: low-growth trap, climate change and employment trends

Latin America and the Caribbean is mired in a decades-long growth trap, and further hampered by global and regional conditions that limit the space for macroeconomic policies to spur economic growth in the region. The results of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024 reveal weaker job creation, especially in the formal sector, with young people, women, older persons, migrants and rural dwellers among the most likely to be informal workers. In addition, an intensification of climate change effects will drastically reduce the number of jobs created in the medium term if mit…

The Hummingbird Vol. 11 No. 9

SIDS 4: Now or never for small island survival

Report of the international meeting of experts on the theme “Measuring gender-based violence against women and girls: lessons learned and challenges”

Within the framework of the XXIV International Meeting on Gender Statistics held in September 2023 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, the international meeting of experts was convened to analyse strategies for measuring the prevalence and incidence of gender-based violence against women and girls and the progress made in the region in developing statistical operations, registry systems and tools to measure the magnitude and occurrence of gender-based violence. The meeting identified the main challenges and recommendations in the area of surveys, single registries of gender-based violence and administr…

Addressing inequality in early childhood: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on new generations of children in Latin America and the Caribbean

Focusing on early childhood is key to inclusive social development. Despite the progress of recent decades, especially through comprehensive early childhood development policies, children aged 0–8 years continue to be disproportionately affected by poverty. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic deepened inequalities and had an often-unseen impact on this early stage of life. With a focus on maternal and child health, nutrition and education, this document is aimed at analysing the impact of the pandemic on early childhood development and on the design and implementation of policies; iden…

Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025: resource mobilization to finance development

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Report of the Third Regional Seminar on Social Development. Promoting labour inclusion as a way to overcome inequalities and informality in Latin America and the Caribbean

This document is the report of the Third Regional Seminar on Social Development “Promoting labour inclusion as a way to overcome inequalities and informality in Latin America and the Caribbean”. This seminar was organized by the Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and in partnership with the Government of Norway, the Ford Foundation and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and was held from 27 to 29 June 2023. In its third edition, the Regio…

Non-contributory pension systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards solidarity with sustainability

The expansion of non-contributory pension systems in the region has been one of the major milestones in the development of social protection architecture in a context of high levels of informal labour, rapid population ageing, and significant gaps and inequalities, including gender inequalities. Non-contributory pension systems have expanded substantially in the twenty-first century, approaching a coverage rate of 3 in 10 persons aged 65 years and over in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022. Establishing non-contributory pension systems and strengthening those that already exist in the cou…

The Amazon region at the heart of the Brazilian economy’s commodity-export model: the case of the State of Pará

The Brazilian economy has undergone far-reaching changes, related especially to the loss of industrial capacity as deindustrialization has spread and commodity-export production has expanded. The Brazilian Amazon region forms part of the expansionary logic of the agro-industry and mining sectors. This article analyses the economic reproduction model of one of the main federative units located in that region, the State of Pará. It uses the specialization coefficients and location quotients of Brazil’s 27 subnational federative units, to make a case study of that State. The findings reveal a dec…

Smart diversification strategies differentiated by countries’ complexity

This paper evaluates production diversification trajectories and proposes an empirical rule for diversification in pursuit of increased economic complexity. It concludes that the growth gains from complexity are greatest in the early stages of economic development. Less complex countries, having limited productive capabilities, diversify into products that are relatively uncomplex and similar to their existing production structure, and this is an obstacle to economic growth. Countries of medium complexity are more willing to implement bold strategies, which makes them more competitive in more …

CEPAL Review No. 143

Sustainability and development in the municipalities of the State of Paraná: mapping and analysis using the sustainable city development index of Brazil (IDSC-BR)

In consideration of the importance that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have acquired in the economic, social and environmental spheres, this article uses the sustainable city development index of Brazil (IDSC-BR) methodology to map SDG attainment in the 399 municipalities of Paraná. The main findings reveal that the municipalities with the lowest SDG fulfilment scores are concentrated in the central region of Paraná. Analysing the results by the individual Goals, the State performed best with Goal 11, sustainable cities and communitie…