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Bridges for gender equality between Latin America and the Caribbean and Germany: Criteria and priorities for a regional feminist development cooperation policy

25 Apr 2025 | Publication

Bridges for gender equality between Latin America and the Caribbean and Germany: Criteria and priorities for a regional feminist development cooperation policy presents the outcomes of the project “Success criteria for a feminist development cooperation policy specific to Latin America and the Caribbean” developed under the Strategic Alliance between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ) and carried out by the ECLAC Division for Gender  Affairs and the  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Int…

Economic policy and climate change: carbon pricing in Latin America and the Caribbean

29 Jan 2025 | Publication

Carbon pricing is one of the public policy options for discouraging production activities and consumption patterns that generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study provides an overview of carbon pricing in Latin America and the Caribbean, along with other associated economic policies. It reviews the situation regarding explicit carbon pricing via carbon taxes and emissions trading systems and the use of implicit pricing through the inclusion of the social price of carbon in public investment project evaluation procedures. It draws attention to the fact that very little use is being mad…

Guide for prioritizing and evaluating environmental remediation projects: managing mining legacies

31 Dec 2024 | Publication

This document contains information, methodologies and guidelines for policymakers and those responsible for implementing public policies aimed at prioritizing investment in environmental remediation projects. It presents an analysis of the concepts of environmental mining legacies and remediation, as well as their most important aspects, taking into account the heterogeneity of the definitions used in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Emphasis is placed on safeguarding human rights, environmental protection, liability for remediation of damage, and economic and financial analys…

Industrial policy trends in Germany

30 Oct 2024 | Publication

Industrial policy is firmly back on the international agenda and it comes in new forms. The general attitude of governments around the world has gone through phases: from outright rejection in some countries during the neoliberal phase to light-handed interventions in the early 2000s, and, increasingly, to deeper interventions over the last 10 to 15 years. Two trends are driving industrial policymaking of late, especially in the United States, China and Europe: decarbonization, which requires deep, government-led restructuring of various industries; and increasing geopolitical rivalry and supp…

Medium-term changes in the patterns of internal population movements in Latin American countries: effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

1 Oct 2024 | Publication

The COVID‐19 pandemic has impacted population movement around the world. Existing work has focused on countries of the Global North and restricted to the immediate effects of COVID-19 during 2020. Data have represented a major limitation to monitor changes in mobility patterns in Latin American countries. Drawing on aggregate anonymised mobile phone location data from Meta‐Facebook users, we aim to analyse the extent and persistence of changes in the levels (or intensity) and spatial patterns of internal population movement across the rural-urban continuum in Argentina, Chile and Mexico over a…

Industrial strategies for tackling the challenges of the twenty-first century: trends in objectives, rationales and design in policy and academia

10 Sep 2024 | Publication

This report documents global shifts in of industrial policy objectives and the rationales behind public intervention to address them. Drawing from a selected sample of policy documents from international organizations and countries with literature on innovation and technical change, this report presents a classification of objectives and rationales. This classification is used to code systematically the academic literature on industrial policy to analyse changes in objectives and rationales in publications on countries of different income groups. The findings show increased attention to social…

Report of the Third Regional Seminar on Social Development. Promoting labour inclusion as a way to overcome inequalities and informality in Latin America and the Caribbean

2 Aug 2024 | Publication

This document is the report of the Third Regional Seminar on Social Development “Promoting labour inclusion as a way to overcome inequalities and informality in Latin America and the Caribbean”. This seminar was organized by the Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and in partnership with the Government of Norway, the Ford Foundation and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and was held from 27 to 29 June 2023. In its third edition, the Regio…

Non-contributory pension systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards solidarity with sustainability

2 Aug 2024 | Publication

The expansion of non-contributory pension systems in the region has been one of the major milestones in the development of social protection architecture in a context of high levels of informal labour, rapid population ageing, and significant gaps and inequalities, including gender inequalities. Non-contributory pension systems have expanded substantially in the twenty-first century, approaching a coverage rate of 3 in 10 persons aged 65 years and over in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022. Establishing non-contributory pension systems and strengthening those that already exist in the cou…

Regulatory sandboxes in developing economies: an innovative governance approach

19 Jul 2024 | Publication

The report examines the development and impact of regulatory sandboxes in low- and middle-income countries. With a focus on understanding the viability and effectiveness of these innovative spaces, it provides a comprehensive analysis aimed at policymakers, international organizations and national authorities considering regulatory sandboxes for new sectors and technologies. Key insights include the emergence of regulatory sandboxes as vital tools for grappling with disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, 5G and cryptocurrencies. Originally popularized by financial authoritie…

Industrial policies for the twenty-first century: lessons from the United States

29 Apr 2024 | Publication

Amid the backdrop of advanced technology competition from China, climate change and a global pandemic, the United States —traditionally averse to industrial policy— embraced major industrial policy programmes between 2020 and 2022. These programmes focused on fostering technology innovation and are prime examples of industrial innovation policy. The scale of these initiatives and their focus on non-defence sectors are unprecedented. This study reviews six major examples of new United States industrial innovation policies involving federal government interventions in post-research phases of inn…

Natural Resources Outlook in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023

15 Apr 2024 | Publication

This document offers an analysis of the natural resources situation in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to promoting discussions on the role those resources can play in the transition to a development model that is sustainable. Natural resources, both renewable and non-renewable, are crucial to the economic development of the region. Latin America and the Caribbean contains almost 20% of the world’s oil reserves, at least 25% of some strategic metals and over 30% of the world’s virgin forest area. In the region, natural resource-based economic activities account for 12% of value ad…

The future of social protection in the midst of a protracted social crisis in Latin America: advancing towards universal, comprehensive, sustainable and resilient systems

5 Mar 2024 | Publication

Social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean face multiple challenges to enhance their universality, comprehensiveness, sustainability and resilience. The region must tackle structural inequalities that are reflected in the coverage, sufficiency and financial sustainability of these systems. These issues are exacerbated by additional problems related to a highly complex context. A series of cascading crises, which includes the health, economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been compounded by a reconfigured social risk structure that conditions the future of s…

Scaling up circular economy initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean

22 Dec 2023 | Publication

This document analyses the possibility of scaling up the potential of the circular economy through financial instruments in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reviews progress in the circular economy in four business cases, selected based on priorities and representativeness for the Latin American and Caribbean region, and assesses the prospect of scaling them up using financial mechanisms and environmental, social and governance (ESG) schemes. The findings show that investment in circular economy business models has multiple benefits for companies, such as profitable operating margins and im…

Methods for measuring internal migration and its sociodemographic effects, focusing on use of censuses and migration matrices

20 Nov 2023 | Publication

This document discusses the difficulties of measuring internal migration and examines the use of the migration module of population censuses to build migration matrices. Different ways of interpreting the intensity of internal migration are outlined and the corresponding existing indicators are explained. Four direct sociodemographic effects of internal migration —growth, redistribution, composition and inequality— are then described, along with the measurement procedures and indicators for all four. Selectivity of migration and indirect measurement of migration are also discussed. The last po…

Evaluation of tax expenditures: conceptual frameworks and international experiences

6 Nov 2023 | Publication

Tax expenditures are deviations from the benchmark tax system which provides preferential tax treatment. Governments use them to pursue different policy goals, such as boosting innovation, creating employment or greening the economy. Their fiscal cost can be significant since the global average revenue forgone, estimated at around 4% of GDP and 25% of tax revenue, has remained stable over the last 30 years. Evaluating tax expenditures against their stated policy objectives and the potential side effects or externalities they might trigger is a crucial step for the rationalization of tax expend…

Monitoring of SDG 7 policies in Latin American countries

31 Oct 2023 | Publication

This document is a contribution of ADEME and ECLAC to measurement of the progress in Latin America on energy policies related to Sustainable Development Goal 7 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The document was prepared within the framework of the Energy Efficiency Indicators Database project, which aims to contribute to technical capacity-building in the countries of the region to monitor their progress towards affordable, efficient, secure and modern energy.…

Report of the second regional seminar on social development. Social security (pensions and health) and the protracted crisis: an opportunity to combat inequality in the framework of a welfare state in Latin America and the Caribbean

16 Aug 2023 | Publication

This document is the report of the Second Regional Seminar on Social Development “Social security and protracted crisis: an opportunity to combat inequality in the framework of a welfare state in Latin America and the Caribbean”. This seminar was organised by the Social Development Division of ECLAC in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and in partnership with the German Cooperation and the European Union’s Transitional Development Facility Project,1 and was held on 30 and 31 August and 1 September 2022. In its sec…

Natural Resources Outlook in Latin America and the Caribbean. Executive summary

17 Jul 2023 | Publication

This document is a summary of the Natural Resources Outlook in Latin America and the Caribbean, a forthcoming publication which aims to raise awareness and promote debate on the role of renewable and non-renewable natural resources in the transition to a more sustainable development model. Natural resources play an important role in the economic development of Latin America and the Caribbean. The region is home to almost 20% of the world’s oil reserves, at least 25% of its reserves of certain strategic metals and more than 30% of its primary forests. Natural-resource-based economic activities …

Pathways to sustainable planning for a just energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean: An analysis of best practices in selected countries

9 Jun 2023 | Publication

This study, prepared within the framework of cooperation between the GET.transform programme and ECLAC for the Regional Technical Forum of Energy Planners, sets forth relevant findings identified following an extensive process of interviews with representatives of planning institutions from selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study first identified key elements of recurrent practices in energy planning, then analysed strengths and opportunities for improvement, which were grouped into five pillars to promote a just energy transition: fostering competitive markets to supp…

Transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mission-oriented approach

27 Jan 2023 | Publication

The current economic and social challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean have highlighted both the region’s structural problems and the urgent need to find new drivers of economic growth. The old approaches to economic development will not enable Latin America and the Caribbean to overcome the present-day economic, health and climate crises. Governments must set bold goals and work with willing private sector partners to promote a truly sustainable and inclusive economy. By advancing mission-oriented industrial policies, countries can stimulate cooperation, diversify production, increase …

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