Many empirical studies of crime assume that victims andperpetrators live in a single geographical unit, the implication being thatthe socio-economic characteristics of victims' places of residence canbe treated as determinants of crime. This study offers an alternativeapproach which consists in measuring crime by the proportion of allegedoffenders in the whole population and treating the characteristics of theirhome communes as socio-economic causes of criminal behaviour. Theconclusion is that those charged with crimes present a high degree ofgeographic mobility. In the case of economical…
¿Qué pueden hacer los Estados para garantizar el acceso de su población a Internet de banda ancha con el fin de fomentar la innovación en sus economías? Este será uno de los temas de la Reunión Avances eLAC2010: fijando prioridades para la Sociedad de la Información del futuro, que se realizará en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe de las Naciones Unidas (CEPAL), en Santiago de Chile.
En el encuentro, que será inaugurado el miércoles 2 de diciembre a las 09:00 horas , se revisarán los avances en el cumplimiento de las 83 metas establecidas en el Plan de Acción Reg…
This paper focuses on several key economic issues relevant to climate change. Given the fact that changes in climate are projections using the best available data, it examines the economic principles of uncertainty and the precautionary approach, and then continues to address the key drivers of climate change. Climate change is expected to result in negative impacts and, in this regard, the consequences of anticipated rising temperatures and sea levels as well as changes in precipitation that may result in flooding and/or drought are addressed. However, the situation is not all negative and, a…
As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the statistical capacities of National Statistical
Offices (NSOs) in the region, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC) convened a two-day Regional Training Workshop on Data Sharing, Data Ownership
and Harmonization of Survey Datasets on 26-27 August 2009 at the Cascadia Hotel, Trinidad
and Tobago. This workshop was one of the concluding activities of the Project on Improving
Household Surveys in the Caribbean which has been implemented by the ECLAC Subregional
office from 2007.…