A Caribbean that counts

Report of the Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

Summary of the Chair of the Second Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

The Inefficiency of Inequality

Consistently with the emphasis that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has placed on equality since 2010, and in keeping with the purpose of leaving no one behind enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this document examines the mechanisms by which inequality erodes dynamic inefficacy in the Latin American and Caribbean economies. It analyses and measures the productivity and income effects of unequal access to health and education, as well as the consequences of inequality of opportunities arising from gender-, race- or ethnicity-based discr…

The Inefficiency of Inequality. Summary / 不平等就是低效率 . 摘要

Consistently with the emphasis that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has placed on equality since 2010, and in keeping with the purpose of leaving no one behind enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this document examines the mechanisms by which inequality erodes dynamic efficiency in the Latin American and Caribbean economies. It analyses and measures the productivity and income effects of unequal access to health and education, as well as the consequences of inequality of opportunities arising from gender-,race- or ethnicity-based discri…

Report on the technical cooperation activities carried out by the ECLAC System during the 2016-2017 biennium

Intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations of the Second Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

Intergovernmentally Agreed Conclusions and Recommendations of the Second Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

The challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean regarding financing for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction for 2015-2030 and the Paris climate accord map out a new development agenda. Fulfilling this new agenda will entail sweeping changes in the approach to sustainable development that will, in turn, call for the mobilization of a massive amount of internal and external resources, along with changes in the way that initiatives are financed and organized and in the way that resources are allocated.…

Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2018: public policy challenges in the framework of the 2030 Agenda

This edition of Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean coincides with an important milestone: the thirtieth anniversary of the Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Over the past 30 years, this seminar has become a key fixture on the agenda of fiscal policy events in the region. Throughout these three decades, the successive editions of the seminar have served as a forum for national authorities, tax experts and officials from international organizations to discuss the performance, challenges and opportun…

Annotated provisional agenda. Second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

Report of the ECLAC subsidiary bodies to the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

Mechanisms to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Caribbean

Almost two years have elapsed since the launch of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the pace of implementation in the Caribbean has remained slow. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has identified a lack of national institutional frameworks to support SDG implementation in most countries as a major factor in the slow pace of implementation. This study shows that Member States that have formalized an institutional arrangement for SDG implementation have recorded appreciable progress in mainstreaming the SDGs and in building national ownership of th…

Planning for the 2020 round of population censuses in the Caribbean

The population and housing census is a major data source that was widely used by Caribbean countries to monitor their progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It also provides a potentially rich source of data for monitoring the progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A Technical Needs Assessment Survey (TNAS) of Caribbean countries to determine their proposed plans and technical needs for the 2020 round of censuses provided a basis for assessing the viability of the census to produce data for the SDG indicators. The results of the TNAS i…

The Hummingbird Vol.5 No.3

Provisional agenda. Second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

Provisional agenda. Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

Access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

This document, of which an earlier version was published in 2013, reviews the laws and institutional frameworks that safeguard access to information, participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters, as enshrined in Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, in the 33 countries of the region, on the basis of the material collected in the Observatory on Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean. This updated version reflects recent developments in these matters and the traction they have gained in the region and includes new examples…

Social Panorama of Latin America 2017

In this edition of Social Panorama of Latin America, ECLAC has addressed the questions posed by the countries of the region in three major areas: income inequality between individuals and households and how these relate to labour market dynamics; the evolution of poverty and its determinants; and the effects of pension systems on equality. The poverty analysis in this 2017 edition is based on a major update of the methodology used; this offers improved comparability between countries, which is an essential input for conducting an overall analysis of how poverty and its determinants have evolve…

Regional Action Plan for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean 2016-2036

The Regional Action Plan for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAP) seeks to be the regional expression of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). It promotes evidence-based policy making, setting out potential actions and interventions as well as relevant and priority policy guidance for all Latin American and Caribbean countries towards the achievement of sustainable urban development. The RAP supports a shift towards a new urban paradigm that recognizes the city as a macro-level public good, where the economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of al…