The Caribbean has one of the highest emigration rates of skilled and tertiary-educated individuals in the world. Women account for a large percentage of these individuals. In the United States alone, women make up 55 percent of the estimated four million Caribbean people residing there. The latest ECLAC study underscores the importance of promoting gender equality and improving women’s overall standards of living. In this regard, it addresses the need to improve the access of all women in the Caribbean, including migrants and returnees to more varied skill development, better jobs,…
The Regional Action Plan for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAP) seeks to be the regional expression of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). It promotes evidence-based policy making, setting out potential actions and interventions as well as relevant and priority policy guidance for all Latin American and Caribbean countries towards the achievement of sustainable urban development. The RAP supports a shift towards a new urban paradigm that recognizes the city as a macro-level public good, where the economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of al…
El Plan de Acción Regional para la Implementación de la Nueva Agenda Urbana en América Latina y el Caribe (PAR) pretende ser la expresión regional de la Nueva Agenda Urbana (NAU). El PAR promueve la elaboración de políticas basadas en evidencia de las dinámicas de la urbanización, y establece recomendaciones de acciones e intervenciones potenciales, así como también orientación política relevante y prioritaria para todos los países en América Latina y el Caribe para el logro del desarrollo urbano sostenible. Asimismo, el PAR fomenta un cambio hacia un nuevo paradigma urbano que reconoce la ciu…
En el Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe de la CEPAL se presenta un conjunto de estadísticas básicas que caracterizan la situación económica, sociodemográfica y ambiental de la región referidas a un período particular. La presente edición del Anuario contiene datos que se encontraban disponibles hasta mediados de diciembre de 2017. Las versiones impresas y electrónica del Anuario no son exactamente iguales. En la primera se incluye una selección de cuadros y gráficos orientados a brindar un resumen de la información estadística desde la perspectiva regional. La versión electróni…
En el Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe de la CEPAL se presenta un conjunto de estadísticas básicas que caracterizan la situación económica, sociodemográfica y ambiental de la región referidas a un período particular. La presente edición del Anuario contiene datos que se encontraban disponibles hasta mediados de diciembre de 2017. Las versiones impresas y electrónica del Anuario no son exactamente iguales. En la primera se incluye una selección de cuadros y gráficos orientados a brindar un resumen de la información estadística desde la perspectiva regional. La versión electróni…
This study presents a situation analysis of persons with disability in the Caribbean. It includes a compilation and analysis of national census data from 16 countries including data from both the 2000 and the 2010 census rounds. The study also assesses national laws, policies and programmes in the context of relevant international treaties and agreements. The topics covered include health and rehabilitation, accessible buildings, transport, information and communications technology, education and labour market participation. In each of these areas, good practices, gaps, and priorities for acti…
This study focuses on the identification of the challenges and capacity constraints faced by enterprises in the sub-region in exploiting trade opportunities provided by Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Partial Scope Agreements (PSAs). It concentrates on the goods sector and case studies for Belize, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, and seeks to develop a strategic framework aimed at addressing these challenges and constraints, thereby creating a platform for economic diversification and export expansion. It explores the recent trade performance of the countries in question under selected trad…
This study examines the impact of de-risking on the study countries—bank and non-bank sectors. The study approach is based on survey instruments, consultations and analysis of secondary data. The impacts that have been observed, to date, have generally been discounted in most analysis as “anecdotal” and not valid for “reliable inference”1. However, in small economies such as those in this study what is anecdotal may be indeed reasonable for inference. The typically small number of banks as well as their dominance in the financial sectors of these small states suggests that reduced banking serv…
This study is intended to be exploratory in nature. It seeks a better understanding of i) how the OMU cluster emerged; ii) the characteristics of the offshore medical universities in the Caribbean cluster; iii) the contribution of the offshore medical universities to the economy of the host Caribbean countries; and iv) the prospects for enhancing the educational quality, and value added captured by the Caribbean in the medical value chain.…
This paper examines the genesis and evolution of debt and debt overhang in the Caribbean with individual case studies, to extract lessons and make broad recommendations with regard to appropriate mechanisms and policy measures that can be implemented to reduce the debt burden of the subregion. The econometric model utilized in the paper has shown that a one percent increase on debt to GDP ratio causes a 0.015decline in real GDP growth for the countries in the Caribbean panel, suggesting that debt has a pernicious effect on growth on Caribbean economies. What is even more worrisome was that Car…
This paper examines the Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) for the implementation of the SIDS development agenda in the Caribbean1, with a view towards determining its future articulation. The paper outlines the RCM concept and its historical context and examines the continued relevance of the RCM in light of the changing multilateral framework for SIDS development. The current status of the RCM is reviewed and the required legal and administrative context for a renewed RCM is discussed. The paper also presents recommendations for the future operation of the RCM.…
La Comisión de Desarrollo Social de las Naciones Unidas tiene a su cargo el seguimiento del Plan de Acción Internacional de Madrid sobre el Envejecimiento. Durante su 56° Período de sesiones celebrado en la Sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York desde el 29 de enero al 7 de febrero de 2018, se realizó un Panel de Alto Nivel en el que participaron representantes de cinco regiones del mundo para presentar los resultados del tercer ciclo de examen y evaluación del Plan Madrid.…
As population age structures change over the coming decades, the cost of providing public education, pensions and health care will change significantly. Falling child dependency ratios and increasing old-age dependency ratios will affect the number of people that receive education and pension benefits. The changing age profile of the population will also affect the demand for health services. This study analyses how public expenditure in these areas, in 10 Caribbean countries, is likely to evolve in response to these demographic changes. It describes how populations are ageing in the Caribbean…
El boletín N° 23, Redatam Informa 2017 contiene interesantes artículos relacionados con aplicaciones de difusión web que utilizan Redatam Webserver para el procesamiento en línea de información socio demográfica. En primer lugar se presenta un estudio sobre las potencialidades de los censos de población para la desagregación de las estimaciones de mortalidad en la niñez. En el mismo, se utiliza una aplicación Redatam para calcular las estimaciones de mortalidad con el método de Brass específicamente para la población afrodescendiente y no-afrodescendiente de Brasil. Uno de los puntos relevante…
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