Infografía. Ruralidad y desarrollo en la Región Brunca, Costa Rica

Coberturas y usos de la tierra en la región Brunca…

Infographic.Recommendations for reducing firewood consumption Guatemala and Honduras

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.…

Infographic. Demographic change and Social Protection Gaps in Mexico, Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean

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.…

Infographic. Diagnosis of structural gaps in the Dominican Republic

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.…

Infographic. A proposal for adjusting the measurament of income distribution in El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica

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.…

Infographic. Public expenditure gaps in health and education in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico

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.…

Infographic. Structural poverty gap under a rights-based approach in El Salvador, Mexico, Panama and Dominican Republic

Infographic. Challenge for educational transformation in Guatemala

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…

Infographic. Sustentability gaps in tourism clusters in Domincan Republic

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…

Infographic. Diagnosis of structural gaps in Guatemala

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.…

The Committee to Support Implementation and Compliance of the Escazú Agreement

El Comité de Apoyo a la Aplicación y el Cumplimiento del Acuerdo de Escazú

Repository on time use in Latin America and the Caribbean

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.…

Repositorio sobre uso del tiempo de América Latina y el Caribe

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.…

Are there gender inequalities in Education and Employment in the Caribbean?

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…

Ciclo de conferencias del 75° aniversario de la CEPAL

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.…

Infografía. Desigualdad en Centroamérica, México y el Caribe: Análisis de brechas y recomendaciones

El proyecto de cooperación técnica “Nuevas narrativas para una transformación rural en América Latina y el Caribe” es implementado por la Sede Subregional de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en México, con el apoyo financiero del Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA). El proyecto entre el FIDA y la CEPAL analiza la “nueva ruralidad” y estudia las brechas estructurales para reducir la pobreza rural, la desigualdad y fomentar la transformación estructural en los países de renta media en la región. Esta infografía se basa en el libro Desigualdad en Centroa…

Infographic. Inequality Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean: gap analysis and recommendations

The technical cooperation project New narratives for rural transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean is implemented by the Subregional Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico, with financial support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The IFAD-ECLAC project analyzes the new rurality and studies structural gaps to reduce rural poverty and inequality and to promote structural transformation in the region's middle-income countries. This infographic is based on the book Inequalit…

Infografía. Enfoques, definiciones y estimaciones de pobreza y desigualdad en América Latina y el Caribe. Un análisis crítico de la literatura

Aunque pobreza y desigualdad coexisten en el mundo social, son nociones distintas y tienen consecuencias distintas a nivel social, económico y político. Así, la pobreza es, una forma y un producto de la desigualdad. Se puede definir a la pobreza como un control desigual de recursos, es producto de la desigualdad porque es una consecuencia de desigualdades de ingreso, riqueza, clase, género y raza.…

Infografía. Brechas estructurales en América Latina y el Caribe: Una perspectiva cenceptual-metodológica

Se pueden observar importantes disparidades en América Latina y el Caribe de ingreso, de patrimonio, de oportunidades y de acceso a bienes y servicios públicos entre poblaciones rurales y urbanas. Sobre la base de los aportes de la teoría de la nueva ruralidad y los nuevos enfoques de análisis de lo rural, se presenta un conjunto de datos empíricos acerca de las brechas de la región.…