The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in collaboration with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Caribbean Office is reviewing gender issues in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) programmes and projects being developed or implemented in the Caribbean subregion. The main objective of this review, of which this report is one component, is to assist in developing a programme for combating HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean within the context of their mandate to provide technic…
En el marco de la cooperación entre la CEPAL y el Gobierno de Francia, el CELADE-División de Población organizó el Taller sobre Transformaciones Demográficas, Transferencias Intergeneracionales y Protección Social en América Latina que tuvo lugar los días 6 y 7 de julio de 2005. En este número de la revista se presentan siete artículos seleccionados de los expuestos en el taller, en los cuales se muestra el estado emergente del conocimiento sobre las transferencias intergeneracionales en América Latina, Además, abren el camino para ahondar en varias líneas de investigación sobre el tema.…
Hasta 1989, la política social en Cuba logró avances muy notables en educación, salud, seguridad social, empleo y distribución. El colapso del campo socialista y otros factores internos y externos provocaron una severa crisis que tocó fondo en 1993 y deterioró casi todos los indicadores sociales. Las modestas reformas orientadas al mercado en 1993-1996 lograron una recuperación parcial, pero luego se paralizaron
y se han revertido a partir del 2003. Los indicadores sociales mejoraron después de 1994, pero en 2003 varios de ellos no recuperaban aún el nivel de 1989 y la pobreza y la desigualdad…
Up to 1989, social policy in Cuba achieved very notable advances
in education, health, social security, employment and income
distribution. The collapse of the socialist bloc and other internal and external factors, however, gave rise to a severe crisis, which reached its bottom in 1993 and led to a deterioration in almost all the social indicators. The modest market-oriented reforms introduced in 1993-1996 generated a partial recovery but were later interrupted and have been reversed since 2003. The social indicators improved after 1994, but in 2003 some of them had still not regained their 1…
A major part of the problem of providing high-quality welfare and social protection to the members of a society lies in the issue of how to distribute the responsibility for these services within the society -a problem referred to in this paper as the care dilemma . Different historical junctures and forms of social organization have witnessed different responses to this dilemma. Strictly speaking, the solution is a variable that depends on culture, level of institutional development, the distribution of the resources of power in a society and the ability of the different relevant s…
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