Equality at the heart of ECLAC thinking: Ideas, policies and actions from 2008 to 2022

14 July 2022 | Publication

Work area(s)

Gender affairs Sustainable development and human settlements

Topic(s)

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development History of ECLAC thinking Inequality Public policies Sustainable development Inclusive development Gender

Equality at the heart of ECLAC thinking: Ideas, policies and actions from 2008 to 2022

- Author: Bárcena Ibarra, Alicia
- Physical description: 29 páginas.
- Publisher: ECLAC
- UN symbol (Signature): LC/PUB.2022/6
- Date: 14 July 2022

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Abstract

This essay summarizes the main lines of analysis, policy proposals and actions in favour of sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean that ECLAC has pursued during the more than 13 years that Alicia Bárcena served as its Executive Secretary.

Table of contents

  • A. Time for equality
  • B. Asymmetries in the centre-periphery system
  • C. The inefficiency of inequality and the culture of privilege
  • D. Interconnecting development policies: social issues are not played out in the social sphere alone and environmental issues are not played out solely in the environmental sphere
  • E. From thought to action
  • F. Epilogue.

SDG(s)

1. No poverty