Reseñas sobre Población y Desarrollo 7: Agreements adopted at the meeting of the ECLAC Ad Hoc Committee on Population and Development

Women, lifecycle and human rights

Social health protection for the elderly in the English-speaking Caribbean

The present paper seeks to contribute to the growing discussion on social protection through an assessment of the status of social health protection systems for the elderly within the English-speaking Caribbean, and a review of the systems in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. It was prepared as a background document for the Expert Group Meeting on Social Health Protection for Vulnerable Populations which was held in Port of Spain on 31 October 2011. Against the backdrop of demographic changes underway in the Caribbean, the paper analyses the schemes and mechanisms that have been instituted by M…

Population ageing, intergenerational transfers and social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

In October 2009 CELADE, together with the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and in the context of the National Transfer Accounts project, organised a meeting of experts in which certain government representatives, in particular from the five countries participating in the project, as well as those from different regional and international organisations, analyzed the consequences of population ageing on economic growth and the sustainability of Latin American transfer systems using information produced in the first phase of the project. This vol…

Observatorio Demográfico de América Latina y el Caribe 2011: Envejecimiento poblacional = Demographic Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean 2011: Population ageing

En este número del Observatorio demográfico se presentan indicadores seleccionados desde una perspectiva demográfica del proceso de envejecimiento de la población, obtenidos a partir de las estimaciones y proyecciones nacionales de la población, de los 20 países de América Latina, para el período 1950-2100. Las cifras contenidas en esta publicación constituyen una ampliación de las presentadas en el Observatorio demográfico núm. 11 de abril de 2011. Estas estimaciones y proyecciones corresponden a un período más largo (de 1950 a 2100) y fueron elaboradas por el CELADE-División de Población de …

Availability, collection and use of data on disability in the Caribbean subregion

This paper addresses the issue of the availability of data on persons with disabilities in the Caribbean subregion. It was prepared as a background paper for the Subregional Meeting and Capacity-Development Training Workshop on Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Caribbean which was held in Port of Spain from 9 - 10 November 2010. It presents the findings of a survey conducted by ECLAC aimed at gaining insight on current practices of national statistical offices and other data collecting agencies with respect to the collection of natio…

Ageing and the protection of human rights: Current situation and outlook

AbstractThe use of a human-rights-based approach to the analysis and interpretation of age-related issues has marked a paradigm shift with regard to a stage of life that has traditionally been associated with a wide range of unmet needs, and the United Nations has made an extremely valuable contribution to this change. In the case of older persons, however, there is no legally binding instrument that protects their rights, as there is for other groups that are subject to discrimination. In order to remedy this situation, the extremely disparate norms that now exist will have to be consolidated…

Strategy proposal, from the perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean, for advancing towards an international convention on the human rights of older persons

The Brasilia Declaration, adopted in 2007 at the second Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a society for all ages and rights-based social protection and ratified in ECLAC resolution 644(XXXII) of 2008, called on participating governments to work towards adopting a international convention regarding the rights of older persons (Article 24). It also established a mandate for a Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur who would be responsible for promoting and protecting the rights of older persons (Article 25).Three meetings were held durin…

Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies

En este nuevo libro de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) se analiza el fenómeno del envejecimiento desde la perspectiva demográfi ca, la garantía de derechos humanos en la vejez y las opciones de políticas públicas que los países de la región están poniendo en práctica en virtud de los acuerdos derivados de la primera y segunda Conferencia regional intergubernamental sobre envejecimiento en América Latina y el Caribe (2003 y 2007).…

Appraisal and conclusions from the 1994-2009 review of the implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action in the Caribbean

The countries of English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean have made significant progress in its economic and human development. Most governments have implemented programs and policies of social protection for vulnerable groups of the population, but its sustainability could be jeopardized because of the global financial crisis. In this cyclical factor is compounded by large external debts of these countries, high exposure to natural disasters, limited natural resources, limited economic diversification and some challenges to their institutional capacities. Although short-term policies are needed …

Demographic change and its influence on development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ageing and Development Newsletter No. 5

Ageing and development in a society for all ages

IntroductionThis document was prepared by the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE); - Population Division of ECLAC, in pursuance of ECLAC resolution 616(XXXI); of 2006 requesting preparation of the relevant substantive documentation for the second Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing (Brasilia, Brazil, 4 to 6 December 2007);. Its purpose is to present and analyse the information available on the demographic ageing process, the situation of the older adult population and the progress made by the countries in applying the Regional Strategy for the Implementation in…

Population ageing in the Caribbean: a four country study

The four countries studied show the classical symptoms of ageing societies in so far as they have experienced a significant decline in fertility and a considerable increase in life-expectancy. Consequently all countries analyzed are well on their way in their transition from young to increasingly older societies. The exercise found considerable gender discrepancies in all aspects, such as health, economic security, educational attainment and living arrangements. While men generally seem to be working longer years and also seem to have easier access to pension schemes, elderly women are more of…

Changing population age structures and their implications on socio-economic development in the Caribbean

Social protection was the core of the Thirty-first Session of the economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);, held in Montevideo in March 2006The discussions focused on the need for a new approach to social protection, given the structural changes the region is experiencing. It was suggested that this approach should be the result of a new rights-based social covenant, in which social rights are seen as the normative horizon, and existing inequalities and budgetary restrictions are the limiting factors to be addressed (ECLAC, 2006a);.…

Nutrition, gender and poverty in the Caribbean subregion

Changing population age structures and their implications on socio-economic development in the Caribbean

The Regional Coordination Mechanism for the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

Ageing and Development Newsletter No. 3

Shaping the future of social protection: access, financing and solidarity

Since the early 1990s, ECLAC has been advocating a new development paradigm that is better suited to a globalized world of open economies. While retaining the Commission's longstanding focus on seeking out positive synergies between economic growth and social equity as part of a productive modernization process, this paradigm also underscores the importance of enhancing competitiveness, preserving macroeconomic balances and strengthening a participatory and inclusive democratic political system. The idea at the core of this proposal is that the Lati…