La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) participa en la 28ª Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP28), hito crucial en la lucha contra la crisis climática y ecológica, que se lleva a cabo en la Ciudad de Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, del 30 de noviembre al 12 de diciembre. La delegación de la CEPAL está encabezada por José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo regional, quien participará en diversas sesiones del foro global. Puedes conocer más sobre la participación de CEPAL en la COP…
El valor de las exportaciones de bienes de América Latina y el Caribe caerá 2% en 2023, en un contexto de gran debilidad del comercio mundial, indicó la CEPAL al presentar un nuevo informe anual sobre el comportamiento del comercio exterior de la región.
El informe Perspectivas del Comercio Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe, 2023. Cambios estructurales y tendencias en el comercio mundial y regional: retos y oportunidades, fue dado a conocer el jueves 2 de noviembre de 2023 en una conferencia de prensa encabezada por el Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo de las Naciones Unidas, José M…
Conoce todas las sesiones en las que la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) impulsará durante la Semana del Clima de América Latina y el Caribe 2023 (LACCW 2023), evento crucial que se llevará a cabo en la Ciudad de Panamá del 23 al 27 de octubre de 2023.…
Guatemala and Honduras are among the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the highest levels of poverty, with the lowest proportion of the population dependent on clean fuels and technologies, and the highest use of firewood. Available estimates and statistics show that a large part of the population, particularly in rural areas, uses firewood as the main cooking fuel. Although there is progress in terms of electricity coverage, there is an nderconsumption of electricity, since the most used energy source at the residential level is firewood.…
Understanding demographic change in Central America, Mexico and the Hispanic Caribbean, with emphasis on aging, is fundamental for social protection systems. The importance of addressing social protection gaps lies in their manifestation in terms of insufficient coverage, inadequate benefits or lack of accessibility, which prevents progress towards universal protection for all.…
Between 1990 and 2019, the Dominican Republic showed progress in the fight against poverty and inequality. However, its current levels are high when compared to countries of similar development in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the world. As a result, there are still important structural gaps,
defined as the different expressions of inequality, which are wide and persistent, in different areas and among different groups of people, and this hinders development.…
Aanalysis of socioeconomic inequality that involves studying the distances in access to income between the various social strata based on household income in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, but adjusting income to the National Accounts in each country.…
Based on this conceptual framework, gaps corresponding to inequalities are identified, either between countries (horizontal) or between social groups or areas in each country (vertical), based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.…
Despite efforts, large gaps in access to the effective enjoyment of the right to education persist in Guatemala, particularly for rural populations and Indigenous peoples. The unprecedented educational crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased gaps, school dropout rates, learning losses, illiteracy and the slowdown in average schooling levels…
This paper focuses on an analysis of sustainability gaps in the tourism clusters of Puerto Plata and Colonial City in the Dominican Republic, based on the idea that tourism is an economic sector with great potential to contribute to the development of a territory, provided that it is based on sustainability…
Between 1990 and 2020, Guatemala achieved progress in the fight against poverty and inequality; however, there are still important structural, wide and persistent gaps in various social, economic and territorial areas. In addition, the recent pandemic generated by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) and its variants caused one of the deepest economic declines in the past 100 years, generating greater poverty and inequality.…
Information systems: transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions.
Pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030.…
Sistemas de información: transformar datos en información, información en conocimiento y conocimiento en decisión política.
Eje 9 de la Estrategia de Montevideo para la Implementación de la Agenda Regional de Género en el marco del Desarrollo Sostenible hacia 2030.…
True or False: Are there gender inequalities in Education in the Caribbean?
The infographic titled Education Inequalities explores gender disparities in education and employment across the Caribbean. It highlights notable progress in educational access, with both genders benefiting, especially in primary and secondary education. However, the data reveals that girls generally outperform boys academically, particularly in fields like biology, physics, and IT. On the other hand, boys excel in subjects such as mathematics and economics.
A significant concern is the drastic drop in male…
Tenemos el honor de invitarle a la serie de conferencias magistrales de pensadores prominentes que se realizarán en 2023 y 2024, convocadas en el marco de la conmemoración del 75° aniversario de la CEPAL.…