Social Panorama of Latin America 2014

The 2014 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America presents ECLAC measurements for the analysis of income poverty, taking, as well, a multidimensional approach to poverty. Applying these two approaches to data for the countries of the region provides confirmation that despite the progress made over the past decade, structural poverty is still a feature of Latin American society. In order to contribute to a more comprehensive design of public policies aimed at overcoming poverty and socioeconomic inequality, this edition examines recent trends in social spending and sets out a deeper gap anal…

Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2014 = Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2014

El Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe presenta un conjunto de estadísticas básicas que caracterizan la situación económica, sociodemográfica y ambiental de la región referidas a un período en particular. Esta información forma parte del conjunto de estadísticas disponibles en CEPALSTAT, el portal de bases de datos y publicaciones estadísticas de la CEPAL. [en línea] http://estadisticas.cepal.org/cepalstat/ Publicación bilingüe (español e inglés), aparece por primera vez en 1973 en sustitución del Boletín estadístico para América Latina y el Caribe, que se publicaba dos veces al …

Annotated provisional agenda. Fifty-first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Fifty-first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The software and information technology services industry: An opportunity for the economic autonomy of women in Latin America

The objective of this report is to understand the rationality that underpins public and business policies for promoting the IT and SIS industries and to determine whether they incorporate gender equality and/or provide incentives for women’s participation. The report also explores how this group of women is symbolically constructed within the firms, what issues are emphasized by the women themselves and what solutions or resources they propose for overcoming the problems. It then contrasts this discourse and intervention with the experiences, visions and demands of women leaders in the SIS sec…

Report of the fiftieth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Santiago, 19-20 May 2014

Agreements. Fiftieth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Annotated provisional agenda. Fiftieth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Evaluation of development account project 10/11 F Improving quantification of women’s unpaid work in support of poverty eradication policies

Provisional agenda. Fiftieth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Compacts for equality. Towards a sustainable future. Summary

Compacts for Equality: Towards a Sustainable Future

The document which ECLAC presents on this occasion explores further the theme of equality addressed at the two previous sessions of the Commission, in Time for Equality: Closing Gaps, Opening Trails (2010, Brasilia), and Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development (2012, San Salvador). The document prepared for the thirty-fifth session, entitled Compacts for Equality: Towards a Sustainable Future, discusses the two major challenges to development in Latin America and the Caribbean today: to achieve greater equality and to make development sustainable for future genera…

Report of the Twelfth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action in the Caribbean (1994-2013): Evaluating Progress and Renewing Commitment

The implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action in the Caribbean over the period 1994 to 2013 is evaluated and recommendations are made for the further implementation of the programme beyond 2014. Recent trends in growth, poverty and inequality in the Caribbean include: the negative impact of the global economic crisis on the Caribbean; declines in extreme poverty; the persistence of poverty measured against national poverty lines; and high levels of inequality. Social, labour market and economic policies all need to target reductions not only in poverty, but also in inequality.…

Report of the forty-ninth meeting of the presiding officers of the regional conference on women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Santo Domingo, 14 October 2013

Situation of unpaid work and gender in the Caribbean: The measurement of unpaid work through time-use studies

individuals spend their time, on a daily or weekly basis, is time-use surveys. These surveys take many different forms to collect vital information which can be used to estimate not only the value of paid and unpaid work, but also the composition of the labour force. The time-use survey is the only available tool for measuring unpaid care work and is also a more cost effective method of collecting timely and accurate data on the gender division of labour within households and the interdependence of the paid and unpaid work undertaken by women and men. This data can be used to enhance the formu…

Surveys on time use and unpaid work in Latin America and the Caribbean: Experience to date and challenges for the future

Most economic and labour studies focus on work in the market, leaving aside the great number of activities dedicated to personal, family and social well-being. In recent decades, many researchers have criticized the main thrust of employment studies that assimilate work with a paid activity performed for the market, demonstrating that paid participation in the production of goods and services is not enough to satisfy human needs and to preserve social cohesion. For several decades now, time use studies have provided a mass of information on the manner in which people use their time, contributi…

Women in the digital economy: breaking through the equality threshold

Prepared by ECLAC for the twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, this document systematizes and describes various dimensions that shape the way the region's women participate in the labour market and how they access and use the different elements of the digital economy. Information and communications technologies (ICTs); provide essential support across all economic, political, cultural and social activity, as well as being a production sector in their own right. As such, they are potential allies in the drive to achieve equality by helping…

Santo Domingo Consensus. Twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Strategy for mainstreaming gender at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2013-2017