Mediante comunicación oficial enviada a la CEPAL con fecha 21 de febrero de 2014, El Salvador adhirió con a la Declaración sobre la aplicación del Principio 10 de la Declaración de Río sobre el Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe.…
The gap between the poorest and the wealthiest around the world is wide and growing. This situation is not only between countries but within them, including many of the most prosperous. The World Day of Social Justice is observed to highlight the power of global solidarity to advance opportunity for all. Circumstances such as where a person is born, where they live or their gender and ethnicity should never determine their income or their opportunities for quality education, basic healthcare, decent work, adequate shelter, access to drinking water, political participation or living free …
La brecha que existe entre los más pobres y los más ricos en el mundo es considerable y está creciendo. Esta situación no solo se da de un país a otro sino dentro del mismo país, incluso en el caso de muchos de los países más prósperos. El Día Mundial de la Justicia Social se celebra con el fin de destacar el poder de la solidaridad mundial para promover oportunidades para todos. Circunstancias como el lugar de nacimiento de una persona, su lugar de residencia o su género o grupo étnico no deben nunca determinar su nivel de ingresos ni las oportunidades que tenga para obtener educación de cali…
Latin America and the Caribbean today faces a crossroads. Historically the region has traveled a path that is barely sustainable, with insufficient growth, high levels of inequality, and little impulse toward structural change. And although it has enjoyed an auspicious decade, today the region confronts an increasingly problematic external scenario. Since 2002, poverty in Latin America has dropped 15.7 percentage points on average. Extreme poverty also fell 8.0 points, even though the pace of that decline is waning. The unemployment rate reached a historic 6.4% and the purchasing power of medi…
América Latina y el Caribe enfrenta hoy una encrucijada. Transita históricamente por una senda poco sostenible, de crecimiento insuficiente con altos niveles de desigualdad, con escaso empuje hacia el cambio estructural, y si bien se ha gozado de una década auspiciosa, confronta hoy un escenario externo cada vez más problemático. Desde 2002, la pobreza en América Latina cayó 15,7 puntos porcentuales en promedio. La pobreza extrema también descendió 8,0 puntos, aun cuando su ritmo de disminución es menguante. La tasa de desempleo alcanza un histórico 6,4% y el poder adquisitivo de los salarios …
(19 de febrero, 2014) El Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES) de la CEPAL incluirá nuevas temáticas en su oferta de cursos para los primeros meses de 2014, entre ellas la planificación participativa y la prospectiva para el desarrollo. Con la incorporación de estas materias el ILPES busca explorar tendencias futuras y contribuir al desarrollo de una mayor planificación a largo plazo de políticas públicas y a la construcción de visiones de país a partir de pactos sociales en América Latina y el Caribe. Estos temas, que se abordarán en programa…
World Radio Day recognizes the unique role and impact of a medium that reaches the largest audience worldwide. This year's observance highlights the need for radio broadcasters everywhere to promote the voice of women and to enhance the role of women within broadcast organizations. The airwaves have frequently lagged behind when it comes to gender equality. Not nearly enough women's voices are heard, either in front or behind the microphone. Not nearly enough stories about women and girls are being told. And women make up only a quarter of the members of the boards of the world's media enterpr…
En el Día Mundial de la Radio se reconoce la repercusión y la función únicas de este medio de comunicación que es el que llega a más personas en todo el mundo. Este año, la observancia del Día Mundial de la Radio recalca la necesidad de que las emisoras de radio de todo el mundo promuevan la voz de las mujeres y potencien el papel de estas dentro de las organizaciones de radiodifusión. Las ondas radiofónicas a menudo se han quedado atrás en materia de igualdad de género. Aún se oyen pocas voces de mujeres, tanto delante como detrás de los micrófonos. Aún se cuentan pocas historias sobre las mu…
Ver transmisión en vivo (4 de febrero, 2014) Continuar avanzando en la reducción de la pobreza y la desigualdad exige prestar atención a los mercados de bienes y servicios de tecnología moderna, en particular los vinculados a la información y las comunicaciones, dijo Mario Cimoli, Director de la División de Desarrollo Productivo y Empresarial de la CEPAL, al inaugurar hoy en Santiago, Chile, el seminario Promoviendo la computación en la nube en Europa y América Latina. "Poco se piensa en la tecnología como componente fundamental de la política de inclusión. Sin embargo…
The main objective of this publication is to document the current state of urban climate change adaptation practice in Latin America. It is a summary of the three workshops of the Regional Learning Network that was set up under the ClimateAdaptationSantiago project (CAS), encompassing six large Latin American cities (Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, São Paulo and Santiago). It aims to synthesize information on the manifestations and impacts of climate change in those Latin American cities that participated in the network, and above all, governance in the form of concrete actions. The p…
Guyana, like many CARICOM countries continues to depend on imported oil that fuels the electricity and transport sectors. Simultaneously, the high level of expenditure on oil reduces the financial resources available to invest in social development, environmental protection, adaptation to climate change and improving food security. The electricity sector in Guyana, in particular, offers significant opportunities for achieving reductions in fossil imports. However, fiscal and regulatory barriers to energy efficiency and renewable energy use are apparent in Guyana. This document seeks to identif…
Twelve years into the 21st Century, Caribbean countries continue to face considerable challenges on their path towards sustainable development and the creation of a post-2015 agenda. These include redefining their niche in the global market place in line with significant shifts in global production systems and trade, recovering from burdensome fiscal deficits and coping with climate change and the negative effects of more frequent natural disasters. In some countries poverty levels are increasing after years of decline. Most have defined a vision for development into the next 20 years, but in …
Although tourism has been a major economic sector in the Car ibbean s ince the mid-1960s, the sector now faces significant challenges as competit ion intensif ies in the global tourism market. These challenges include environmental impacts, and the need for continued high levels of public investment in order to sustain the tourism product. The precariousness of the sector was made starkly evident with the onset of the global recession in 2009, when the sector recorded significant decline. Notwithstanding some limited recovery since that time, the recent experience highlighted the need for Cari…
The Caribbean receives some of the highest levels of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the world, with many economies having FDI to GDP ratios above 10 per cent in 2012. In the recent past, FDI flows have been particularly volatile, with the financial crisis in 2008 greatly reducing FDI flows to the Caribbean, although they have recovered somewhat recently. One of the distinctive features of Caribbean FDI flows is that they appear to be relatively unprofitable, with FDI income significantly lower than in Latin America. This is possibly due to the sectoral pattern of FDI, which in most Caribbe…