Annotated provisional agenda. Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Report on the activities of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

Proposal for the Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation activities 2022-2023 of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Framework of reference for security and criminal justice statistical systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Summary

Guidelines for gender mainstreaming in the working groups of the Statistical Conference of the Americas

Protocol for the collection and dissemination of data on children and adolescents participating in studies. Summary

Report on the outcomes of the Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation Activities 2020-2021 of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

CEPAL Review no. 134

The incidence of poverty in Costa Rica between 1987 and 2017: stagnation or reduction?

According to official data (based on the income poverty line), 20% of households in Costa Rica were poor in 1994, a figure that has apparently not changed substantially since. The poverty level is currently considered to have stagnated at around 20% for more than two decades. However, the way poverty is measured has undergone methodological changes that preclude a strict comparison of the data over time. This study offers a method for dealing with the methodological difficulties and obtaining a set of comparable poverty data for the period from 1987 to 2017. It thereby demonstrates that the le…

Report of the Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

CEPAL Review no. 133

Globalization and national development paths: stylized facts for analysing the Argentine case

This paper uses stylized facts to analyse the production paths and socioeconomic performance of a group of countries over the last few decades, with a view to making a comparative analysis of the Argentine case. Nine countries were selected for this purpose (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Mexico, Norway and the Republic of Korea); and a long-term analysis was performed by constructing indicators that synthesize the production paths and performance of these economies. The paper concludes that two major types of production paths have predominated during this period. The first…

Second report on the implementation of the Biennial Programme of Regional and International Cooperation Activities, 2020-2021, of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Report on the Activities of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

Annotated provisional agenda. Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2020 = Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2020

En el Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe de la CEPAL se 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/. La presente edición del Anuario contiene datos que se encontraban disponibles hasta mediados de diciembre de 2020.El Anuario consta de tres capítulos. El pri…

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean

The COVID-19 pandemic is a disaster that combines a biological threat with various vulnerabilities, such as the organizational and response capacity of health systems, overcrowding, informality, social work practices, and public transport. The human and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented. According to World Health Organization (WHO) figures, by November 2020 it had caused more than 18 times more deaths than all the epidemics that took place in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1970 and 2019. For the first time since records began, all the countries of the region …

Provisional agenda. Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Statistical disclosure control for Caribbean census tables: A proposal to expand the availability of disaggregated census data

Among Caribbean statistical offices, there is widespread awareness of the issue of statistical confidentiality which has often led to quite strong restrictions on the availability of detailed and disaggregated census tables. In North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, statistical offices use disclosure control methods, particularly methods involving some form of data perturbation, to safely publish detailed and disaggregated census tables. These methods are not used in the Caribbean (or Latin America) but could safely facilitate the release of much more detailed census tables than has…