En términos generales, el objetivo principal de los cursos de capacitación que ofrece la CEPAL es fortalecer las capacidades, habilidades y conocimientos aplicados (competencias) de los funcionarios públicos y de actores académicos y de la sociedad civil para el logro de los objetivos nacionales y regionales de desarrollo económico y social
Todas las divisiones de la CEPAL ofrecen cursos y capacitaciones de acuerdo a sus correspondientes áreas de trabajo en temáticas vinculadas con su agenda de investigación y cooperación técnica, dentro de las cuales destacan los desafíos de la igualdad en su…
The aims of the Social Development Division include contributing to the assessment and analysis of the social situation of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean, and its work focuses on specific groups in the various countries of the region, including children. It also conducts analyses of public policies aimed at improving the living standards of persons under the age of 18 and makes proposals to redress existing shortfalls in the fulfilment of children’s and adolescents’ rights.
Areas of interest
Child poverty
Children living in poverty are dep…
Education is the main mechanism for achieving progress in multiple dimensions of social inclusion: greater equality of opportunity, skills for future social mobility, the formation of an active citizenry respectful of rights, familiarity with various cultural codes and access to the labour market with greater options.
In recent years, ECLAC has focused on analysing the role of education in social inclusion, by monitoring gaps, progress and challenges, and looking in particular at levels of schooling (primary and secondary).
One of the main challenges facing the region is continuing to improve …
The Social Development Division’s work on food and nutrition security is underpinned, first, by the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, which enshrines food as a fundamental right and calls upon States to ensure food and nutrition security and, second, by the need to address major inequalities in access to food despite its availability in the region, which severely curtail fulfilment of the right to food and prejudice the nutritional status of the population.
The Division’s work in this area has involved analysing the social, economic and cultural factors…
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto, adopted on 13 December 2006 at the Headquarters of the United Nations, undoubtedly constituted a major landmark for persons with disabilities and has contributed to the mainstreaming of disability into the region’s political and social agenda.The Convention adopts a broad categorization of persons with disabilities and reaffirms that all persons with any type of disability must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms. It has been ratified by 152 Member States of the United Nations. In the regio…
Social protection encompasses policies that are geared towards the exercise of economic, social and cultural rights and towards protecting against uncertainty and risk, on the basis that people’s present and future well-being are affected by, among other factors, illness, difficulties in meeting the care needs of children, persons with disabilities or some sort of fragility, episodes of unemployment or underemployment, and the loss or substantial reduction of income in old age. Without adequate policies, socioeconomic conditions can worsen inequalities, vulnerability and poverty.
Social protec…
The aims of the Social Development Division include assessment and analysis of the social situation of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean and examination of social policy management and impact.
In this connection, one of the Division’s current priorities is tracking and assessing social investment in the countries of the region, which involves collecting, disseminating and analysing statistics related to (public and private) social investment, which are published annually in the Social Panorama of Latin America, among other specialized documents. The Division maintains the relev…
Director
Inés Bustillo
Oficiales de Asuntos Económicos:
Raquel Artecona
Helvia Velloso
Asistente de Estadisticas:
Rex Garcia-Hidalgo
Asistente Administrativo:
Paola Celio
Asistente
Lucero Segura-Green
Asistente de Investigación:
Daniel Perrotti
Pasantes – invierno de 2016:
Stefan Pagura
Julia Cardoso
Han Sun…
This publication, entitled the CEPAL Review, is covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), published by Thomson ISI, and in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), published by the American Economic Association…
The opinions expressed in the signed articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect ECLAC views.
Explanatory Notes
The following symbols are used in tables in the Review:
Three dots indicate that data are not available or are not separately reported.
A dash indicates that the amount is nil or negligible.
A blank space in a table means that the item in question is not applicable.
A minus sign indicates a deficit or decrease, unless otherwise specifi ed.
A point is used to indicate decimals
A slash indicates a c…
Care work entails activities undertaken to ensure the day-to-day well-being of persons from various perspectives: physical, economic, moral and emotional. As such, it ranges from the provision of elements essential to human life, such as food, shelter, cleanliness, health and company, to support and the transmission of knowledge, social values and practices via processes related to nurturing.
The term encompasses relationships between caregivers and persons receiving care in situations of dependency: children, persons with disabilities or chronic diseases, and older persons. However, all…
El trabajo de cuidado comprende actividades destinadas al bienestar cotidiano de las personas, en diversos planos: material, económico, moral y emocional. De esta forma, incluye desde la provisión de bienes esenciales para la vida, como la alimentación, el abrigo, la limpieza, la salud y el acompañamiento, hasta el apoyo y la transmisión de conocimientos, valores sociales y prácticas mediante procesos relacionados con la crianza.
El término caracteriza relaciones entre personas cuidadoras y personas receptoras de cuidado en situación de dependencia: niños y niñas, personas co…
Cepal Review first appeared in 1976 as part of the Publication Programme of ECLAC, its aim being to make a contribution to the study of the economic and social development problems of the region.
CEPAL Review Special Chinese Edition May, 2013
Revista CEPAL - Numéro Hors- série en français July 2010
Revista CEPAL - Número especial em português May 2010
Revista de la CEPAL - Numéro Spécial en français: section d'articles publies 1995-2004 June 2005
CEPAL cincuenta años: reflexiones sobre América Latina y el Caribe October 1998
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La Revista de la CEPAL se inició en 1976 y actualmente se distribuye a universidades, institutos de investigación y otras organizaciones internacionales, así como a suscriptores individuales, en español e inglés. Su objetivo es contribuir al examen de los problemas del desarrollo socioeconómico de la región, en especial mediante enfoques analíticos y de políticas, con artículos de expertos en economía y otras ciencias sociales, tanto de Naciones Unidas como fuera de ella.
CEPAL Review Special Chinese Edition Mayo, 2013
Revista CEPAL - Numéro Hors- série en français Julio 2010
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The first and second Ibero-American Youth Reports, presented jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Ibero-American Youth Organization (OIJ) in 2004 and 2008, respectively, paved the way for visions, analysis and policies concerning youth in the region by providing updated data and detailed policy proposals in various areas of young people’s lives, including education, employment, migration, sexuality and reproductive health, the family, drug abuse, victimization and violence, risk, time use and cultural identities and social and political partici…
With the aim of deepening understanding of development issues in the region, in 1952 ECLAC began establishing a network of national and subregional offices. The ECLAC office in Bogota was set up through an agreement with the Government of Colombia signed in November 1963.
With this step, ECLAC proposed to decentralize and add value to the implementation of economic studies on development, trade and integration and technical cooperation projects.
The ECLAC office in Bogota contributes to regular and ad hoc economic studies conducted by the Commission, disseminates its work and provides technica…
Chief of the office:
Juan Carlos Ramírez Jaramillo
Expert:
Olga Lucia Acosta Navarro
Administration:
Julián Cardozo Díaz
Research assistants:
Luis Javier Uribe Moya
Johan Manuel de Aguas Pérez
Assistant to the Chief:
Cristina Suárez Meóz …
Estados miembros y miembros asociados de la CEPAL
Estados miembros:
Alemania
Deutsche Bundesbank
Antigua y Barbuda
Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB)
Argentina
Banco Central de la República Argentina
Bahamas
Central Bank of The Bahamas
Barbados
Central Bank of Barbados
Belice
Central Bank of Belize
Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de)
Banco Central de Bolivia
Brasil
Banco Central do Brasil
Canadá
Bank of Canada
Chile
Banco Central de Chile
Colombia
Banco de la República
Costa Rica
Banco Central de Costa Rica
Cuba
Banco Central de Cuba
Dominica
…
Sustainable development, the basis of the new international development agenda, is a deceptively simple notion that in fact reflects a complex balance struck between different perspectives on the interplay between the environment and economic and social development.
The concept of sustainable development was the brainchild of the Brundtland Commission, set up by the United Nations General Assembly in 1983. The Commission’s report, Our Common Future (1987) defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations t…
In late 1960s and early 1970s the world began to wake up to the importance of environmental issues, shaken from its slumber by new scientific findings, the increased sophistication of civil society movements in some countries and a few high-impact publications.
These included Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962), The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich (1968) and The Limits to Growth, commissioned by the Club of Rome (1972). Until the early 1970s, international efforts to address environmental issues had targeted specific environmental problems, with scant regard for the interplay between the env…
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