A territorial perspective: towards the consolidation of human settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin American and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Conference for the special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda - Santiago, Chile, 25-27 October, 2000 Introduction The Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 3 to 14 June 1996. In Latin America and the Caribbean, this conference gave rise to a great deal of thought-provoking analysis of the enormous challenges that will be faced during this millennium in the field of land use and urban and housing developme…

Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2000 = Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2000

La edición 2000 del Anuario estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe contiene una selección actualizada a comienzos de diciembre de las principales series estadísticas disponibles sobre la evolución económica y social de los países de la región. Representa un sistemático esfuerzo de la División de Estadística y Proyecciones de la CEPAL, orientado a homogeneizar las cifras y a hacerlas internacionalmente comparables. La primera parte comprende indicadores socioeconómicos derivados (tasas de crecimiento, proporciones o coeficientes), que representan una visión resumida de cada área de interés y…

ECLAC Officials Assist Government of Belize in a Social, Environmental and Macroeconomic Assessment of the Damage Caused by Hurricane Keith

CEPAL Review no.72

Poverty and social integration in the Caribbean

Summary This document looks at seven major indicators of poverty in the region: infant mortality; malnutrition; communicable diseases; employment and income; education; social services such as water, sanitation and housing; and the incidence of natural disasters. There is also some focus on crime and violence and the issue of illicit drugs, as expressions of social deterioration.…

ECLAC Conducts Training Workshops on Assessing the Impacts of Natural Disasters in the Region

The phenomenon of ageing and the situation of older persons in the Caribbean

Background In its resolution 47/5 of 16 October 1992, the General Assembly decided to observe the year 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons (1) and to take note of the conceptual framework of a programme for the preparation and observance of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999, as contained in the report of the Secretary-General (A/50/114). In resolution 50/141 entitled International Year of Older Persons: Towards a society for all ages , the General Assembly, inter alia, invited the regional commissions, within the existing mandates, to bear in mind the goa…

Youth, population and development in Latin America and the Caribbean: summary and conclusions

Twenty-eighth session. Mexico City, 3-7 April 2000 This document examines the characteristics and perspectives of the young people of Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on how their situation relates to population issues and development. The central question around which the paper is organized is the extent to which the current characteristics and situation of the region's youth allow the deployment of their potential contribution to the production and reproduction of a society oriented towards balanced economic, social and political development, that is, development that promotes …

CDCC - Twenty-Five Years of Cooperation and Development: 1975-2000

Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 1999 = Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 1999

La edición 1999 del Anuario estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe contiene una selección actualizada a comienzos de diciembre de las principales series estadísticas disponibles sobre la evolución económica y social de los países de la región. Representa un sistemático esfuerzo de la División de Estadística y Proyecciones de la CEPAL, orientado a homogeneizar las cifras y a hacerlas internacionalmente comparables. uarios en forma oportuna. La primera parte comprende indicadores socioeconómicos derivados (tasas de crecimiento, proporciones o coeficientes), que representan una visión resumida…

ECLAC/CDCC report on the phenomenon of ageing and the situation of older persons in the Caribbean

Transitional fiscal costs and demographic factors in shifting from unfunded to funded pensions in Latin America

Abstract After the 1981 Chilean pension system reform, which shifted from a government run pay-as-you-go system to a private, fully funded one, many countries in Latin America have implemented or are considering reforms with an important funded component. We develop a simple model to assess the magnitude of the implicit government debt that needs to be made explicit by this policy, as well as the transitional fiscal costs that such a reform implies. We show that the liabilities and the associated fiscal costs are affected by the population age structure, old-age mortality, labour-market and pe…

Report of the Inter-Agency Collaborative Group Meeting Preparatory to the Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the World Summit for Social Development

El informe da cuenta de las discusiones sostenidas en la reunión, las que se centraron en: a) la revisión y evaluación de la implementación del Programa de Acción de la Cumbre Mundial para el Desarrollo Social, con énfasis en las actividades específicas incluyendo informes por países y estudios temáticos en torno al empleo, la erradicación de la pobreza y la integración social; b) el examen de la situación del envejecimiento y de los ancianos, relevando las necesidades de información para la implementación de políticas, las estrategias y programas, y el logro de un consenso subregional frente …

CEPAL Review no.62

CEPAL Review no.58

Digest of selected demographic and social indicators 1960-1994 for CDCC member countries

Report of ECLAC/CDCC UNFPA Caribbean population and development meeting, Follow-up to ICPD

CEPAL Review no.51

CEPAL Review no.50

Consistency of the population projections prepared by CELADE with those of the national governments

El CELADE elabora proyecciones nacionales de poblacion para los 20 paises de la region, en la mayoria de los casos en colaboracion con las oficinas gubernamentales, lo que le otorga a aquellas un caracter oficial. El Centro tambien asesora a los paises en la elaboracion de proyecciones especificas y presta asistencia tecnica; en forma reciente ha disenado un paquete computacional para la preparacion y analisis preliminares de las proyecciones de poblacion. Los problemas mas frecuentes que surgen del trabajo conjunto con los paises dicen relacion con la rotacion del personal administrativo y pr…