Resolution 744(XXXVIII) Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Resolution 742(XXXVIII) Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Resolution 748(XXXVIII) Programme of work and priorities of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean for 2022

Resolution 749(XXXVIII) Committee on South-South Cooperation

Resolution 741(XXXVIII) Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Resolution 738(XXXVIII) ECLAC calendar of conferences for the period 2021–2022

Resolution 746(XXXVIII) Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Resolution 739(XXXVIII) Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Resolution 740(XXXVIII) Support for the work of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES)

Resolution 737(XXXVIII) San José Resolution

Building a New Future: Transformative Recovery with Equality and Sustainability

This document, presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to its member States at its thirty-eighth session, argues that Latin America and the Caribbean is in a position to move towards a “big push for sustainability” through a combination of economic, industrial, social and environmental policies capable of driving a recovery with equality and sustainability and relaunching development in the region. The document has five chapters. The first studies the three crises (slow growth, growing inequality and the environmental emergency) affecting economies and …

Building a New Future: Transformative Recovery with Equality and Sustainability. Summary

This document, presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to its member States at its thirty-eighth session, argues that Latin America and the Caribbean is in a position to move towards a “big push for sustainability” through a combination of economic, industrial, social and environmental policies capable of driving a recovery with equality and sustainability and relaunching development in the region. The document has five chapters. The first studies the three crises (slow growth, growing inequality and the environmental emergency) affecting economies and …

The Caribbean Outlook: Forging a people-centred approach to sustainable development post-COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and inequalities in Caribbean society, including with regard to access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and education services, food insecurity, and the situation of women and girls given the significant increase in gender-based violence. It has also posed a considerable challenge to governments, already burdened by high levels of public debt and debt service payments, to provide support to struggling businesses and to the increasing numbers of unemployed, particularly those in the informal sector. This edition …

Committee on South-South Cooperation: annotated provisional agenda

Committee on South-South cooperation: provisional agenda

Digital Transformation in Latin American and Caribbean logistics

This FAL Bulletin continues the Reflections on Disruptive Technologies in Transport that ECLAC has been publishing through this medium. The present edition analyses the importance of the digital transformation of logistics, especially in the current circumstances where the need for fluid, safe and resilient logistics calls for additional actions on traceability and process facilitation.…

Political and social compacts for equality and sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-COVID-19 recovery

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic hit Latin America and the Caribbean in a period of economic, social and environmental vulnerability (ECLAC, 2020a). Tackling the health crisis —which has outlasted initial forecasts— and its deleterious economic and social effects will require political and social compacts built on broad multi-stakeholder participation that universalize social protection and health and, above all, refocus development on equality and on fiscal, production and environmental policies for sustainability. Compacts must be directed towards laying the foundations for a…

Latin America and the Caribbean: The port terminal industry and activity indicators for 2019

This issue of the FAL Bulletin presents an inventory of all the port terminals in Latin America and the Caribbean, classifies them by specialization and provides an analysis of port activity in 2019.…

Reconstruction and transformation with equality and sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented impact in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has become the worst economic and social crisis in a century and has exposed significant structural gaps in the region’s development model. A profound transformation is necessary, eschewing the temptation to view the pandemic as an accident or a parenthesis instead of as the signal that a new direction must be taken because the world has reached what is increasingly seen as a transformative crossroads. A new social contract is needed and a new global pact must be forged. The regio…

The environmental tragedy of Latin America and the Caribbean. Offprint

This book, of which we present an preliminary offprint version in English, is the result of a collective analysis undertaken at the invitation of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as part of the discussions supporting preparations for the thirty-eighth session of the Commission. With the collaboration of Nicolo Gligo, it was possible to bring together a group of pioneers in the analysis of sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean whose thinking has been informing this field of the social and scientific disciplines since the 1970s. Their diffe…