Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean: access, renewability and efficiency

Energy is central to addressing almost every major challenge and opportunity in the region, whether it be reducing poverty, producing and cooking food, boosting employment, improving security, using digital services or raising incomes. However, the current energy model with its heavy use of fossil fuels jeopardizes environmental equilibrium, as it is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 seeks to ensure access to affordable, secure, sustainable and modern energy. To this end it sets three targets, the first concerning access to energy, the …

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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…

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

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.…

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…

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Reference framework for security and criminal justice statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

Subnational Poverty Estimates for Latin America

Subnational poverty maps are used by governments to design, implement and monitor development policies more effectively by targeting them to the places or population groups that need them most urgently. This note describes the poverty mapping methodology based on small-area estimation methods, as used by the Statistics Division of ECLAC. The methodology makes it possible to combine census information with household survey data to make estimations at the provincial, communal, or municipal levels, for which direct estimates from household surveys are generally too imprecise. This note illustrat…

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 the formation and functioning of the working groups of the Statistical Conference of the Americas

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

Methodological document on statistical use of economic administrative records. Summary

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

Guide for the implementation of a quality assurance framework for statistical processes and outputs

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