Report of the eighteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES)

Final assessment report. Assessment of development account project 18/19 AG: Rural-urban linkages for inclusive development in Colombia

The Hummingbird Vol. 9 No. 5

Final assessment report. Assessment of development account project 1819 AH: regional observatory on sustainable energy for Latin America and the Caribbean region

Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 1990-2020 = Estadísticas tributarias en América Latina y el Caribe 1990-2020

Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 is a joint publication by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC), the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the support of the European Union Regional Facility for Development in Transition for Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents detailed, internationally comparable data on tax rev…

Reducing emissions from the energy sector for a more resilient and low-carbon post-pandemic recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean

Economic crises are not new, but the way countries respond to and seek to build back from their effects is an ever-evolving process. In the present context, the strategies adopted by Latin American and Caribbean countries to recover from the dramatic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are marked by an urgent need to also address the climate crisis. This publication examines the synergies and linkages between post-COVID-19 crisis recovery approaches stemming from a sustainable energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study aims to identify recovery strategie…

Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and the COVID-19 crisis

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is the worst global crisis since the Second World War, with developing countries suffering more devastating economic and social effects than developed countries. Governments’ increased pandemic-related expenditure combined with the drastic fall in tax revenues have increased their fiscal deficits and heightened their debt vulnerabilities. The generalized increase in fiscal imbalances and indebtedness has given rise to greater liquidity needs across developing countries, despite considerable heterogeneity in their fiscal positions and debt profiles. E…

Provisional agenda. Fourth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Report of the Eleventh meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Summary of the Chair. Fifth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

End of assignment report Alicia Bárcena 2008–2022

This document contains a report on the term in office of Alicia Bárcena as Executive Secretary of ECLAC (2008–2022), by area of work of the Commission.…

Diversification of the structure of secondary education and educational segmentation in Latin America

One of the main objectives of this series of studies on the diversification of secondary education and educational segmentation in Latin America is to contribute to the development of more inclusive public policies. This document presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative study on the dynamics of educational segmentation in six countries in the region, together with an analysis of the experience of adolescents and young people in scenarios of extended compulsory schooling. The study reflects the significant progress made in extending schooling, as well as the challenges that remain…

Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2021 = Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021

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://statistics.cepal.org/portal/cepalstat/. La presente edición del Anuario contiene datos que se encontraban disponibles hasta mediados de diciembre de 2021. Las versiones impresa y web del Anuar…

The economic and financial effects on Latin America and the Caribbean of the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine

The conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine has come at a time of great uncertainty in the world, relating to several factors: uneven rates of vaccination against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and new variants of the virus; inflationary pressure and difficulty in maintaining fiscal stimulus packages; trade tensions and risks in the Chinese real estate sector; disruption of supply chains and rises in freight charges; and extreme events caused by climate change. The conflict will have an impact on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean through several channels, but primari…

Technological change and labour market trends in Latin America and the Caribbean: a task content approach

The aim of this paper is to analyse employment profile trends in the Latin American and Caribbean countries according to the task content of workers’ jobs. This analysis seeks to approximate the impact of technological change on the labour market. The paper uses the definitions of an indicator that captures the relative importance of four types of tasks, namely cognitive versus manual and routine versus non-routine tasks, based on information from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) and household surveys. The analysis finds that there has been growing demand for workers over the last …

The ECLA-BNDE Economic Development Centre and the training of a generation of development planners in Brazil

This paper aims to reconstruct the history of the partnership between the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) and Brazil’s National Bank for Economic Development (BNDE). The ECLA/BNDE Economic Development Centre, which operated in Rio de Janeiro between 1960 and 1967, held courses on Problems of Economic Development in several regions of the country, training a generation of development planning specialists who worked to overcome underdevelopment. The Centre also functioned as a gateway to ECLA ideas and writings in Brazil and as a locus of knowledge production in the area of economic…

Final assessment report. Assessment of development account project 1819 AF: Strengthening institutional frameworks in the Caribbean for an integrative approach to implement the 2030 Agenda and the SIDS Sustainable Development Agenda

Development model, labour precariousness and new social inequalities in Latin America

This article analyses the key characteristics of the two major economic models of the last century, and of the current one thus far, in Latin America. The first is centred on national development, with a relative welfare structure. The second presents the distinctive features of the current neoliberal model, in terms of the breakdown of the social pact between capital, the State and the working class, together with flexibilization and deregulation as modalities of labour management. As a hypothesis, some of these singularities are analysed in terms of the emergence of a new labour precariousne…

Unionization and wages: a quantile analysis

The aim of this article is to analyse the wage effects of unionization in a sample of the Brazilian population in 2015. Using data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) and its supplement on labour relations and unionization, econometric techniques (ordinary least squares, propensity score matching and unconditional quantile regressions) are used to test the hypotheses that being unionized affects wages, and whether there is an additional benefit in the case of unions that participate more actively with their members. The results show that there is a positive relationship between un…

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