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A economia da mudança climática na América Latina e no Caribe: uma visão gráfica

A mudança climática é um dos grandes desafios do século XXI devido a suas causas e consequências globais e à magnitude dos esforços necessários e simultâneos para amortecer seus impactos negativos, adaptar-se às novas condições climáticas e realizar os processos de mitigação das emissões de gases de efeito estufa. O principal objetivo desta publicação é apresentar as hipóteses e as cifras básicas da economia da mudança climática na América Latina e no Caribe de forma resumida e gráfica. Esses fatos estilizados procuram contribuir para uma melhor formulação, implementação e avaliação das políti…

Lanzamiento del Libro "Envejecimiento, personas mayores y Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. Perspectiva regional y de derechos humanos"

La presentación se realizó el 27 de febrero de 2019 en San José de Costa Rica y fue organizada por la Segunda Vicepresidencia de la República junto con el Consejo Nacional de la Persona Adulta Mayor (CONAPAM), en el marco de una visita realizada por CEPAL al país para conocer los avances de la incorporación de las personas mayores en la aplicación nacional de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible.…

Balance preliminar de las economías de Centroamérica y la República Dominicana en 2018 y perspectivas para 2019

En el presente documento se hace un balance preliminar de las economías de Centroamérica (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá) y la República Dominicana en 2018 y se ofrecen perspectivas para 2019. Es un análisis de coyuntura elaborado por la Unidad de Desarrollo Económico de la sede subregional de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en México, con información disponible al 31 de enero de 2019. Los datos presentados en las secciones de contexto internacional y rasgos generales de este documento se basan en el informe de la CEPAL Balance Pr…

ECLAC: Social, Economic and Cultural Impact of Migration is Distinctly Positive for Countries of Origin and Destination

Although major movements by migrants can entail costs, they also have a social, economic and cultural impact that is distinctly positive in both countries of origin and destination, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), affirmed today. ECLAC’s most senior representative, in her role as coordinator of the five United Nations regional commissions, spoke today during a high-level debate on international migration and development that was held at the UN headquarters in New York. Prior to that, she participated in a meeting of EC…

CEPAL: impacto social, económico y cultural de la migración es notoriamente positivo para los países de origen y destino

Si bien los grandes movimientos de migrantes pueden acarrear costos, también tienen un impacto social, económico y cultural notoriamente positivo en los países de origen y destino, afirmó hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). La máxima representante de la CEPAL, en su calidad de coordinadora de las cinco comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas, intervino hoy en un debate de alto nivel sobre migración internacional y desarrollo que se celebró en la sede de la ONU en Nueva York. Previamente, participó en la reunión del Com…

ECLAC’S Executive Secretary Calls on the UN System to Address the Fundamental Causes of Migration

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, called today on the international community, and the agencies of the United Nations system in particular, to address the roots and fundamental causes of migration in order to confront the problem posed by people’s displacement in diverse parts of the world. The senior UN official moderated a high-level panel on migration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the framework of an expert symposium on international migration and development, held this Tuesday, February 26, a…

Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL llama al sistema ONU a abordar las causas fundamentales de la migración

La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, hizo hoy un llamado a la comunidad internacional, y a las agencias del sistema de las Naciones Unidas en particular, a abordar las raíces y causas fundamentales de la migración con el fin de enfrentar el problema que presenta el desplazamiento de personas en diversas partes del mundo. La alta funcionaria de la ONU moderó un panel de alto nivel sobre migración y la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en el marco de un simposio de expertos sobre migración internacional y desarrollo, ef…

Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2018

The Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2018 analyses the performance of the Caribbean subregion to the global economy. It provides a comparative analysis of global economic growth, commodity price performance, Caribbean growth performance, and unemployment. This is then followed by a subsection on fiscal policy and public debt. Subsequent subsections elaborate on monetary policy, and the external sector. Section II presents country briefs for the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, together with the member states of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union …

Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2017–2018

The report provides an overview of the economic performance for 2017 of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago plus the eight Member States of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), and the outlook for 2018. Data were collected from a review of reports from subregional institutions as well as national governments and interviews with government officials in each of the countries examined.…

Mainstreaming disaster risk management strategies in development instruments (II): policy briefs for Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago

This set of policy briefs has the objective of profiling disaster risk management (DRM) policies in five selected member States of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee: Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The present publication is the second that ECLAC has released on the mainstreaming of DRM strategies on this topic area. In 2017, a similar document was published for the following countries: The Bahamas, Belize, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. It also aims at analysing these policies and their interactions with broader development issues an…

Implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in the Caribbean: a review of the period 2013–2018

This study provides a comprehensive review and evaluation of the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in the Caribbean. The Montevideo Consensus was adopted by the governments of the region in 2013 and includes more than one hundred priority actions covering themes including population policy and planning; children and youth; ageing; sexual and reproductive health; gender equality; international migration; territorial inequality; and indigenous peoples. This study was prepared to inform the first five-year review of the implementation of the Consensus which …

Ministerio de Desarrollo Social de Paraguay y CEPAL firman convenio de cooperación para el diseño y gestión de políticas sociales

El Ministro de Desarrollo Social de Paraguay, Mario Varela, y la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, firmaron hoy un convenio de cooperación para fortalecer las actividades de asistencia técnica entre ambas partes. La ceremonia de firma se realizó en la sede central de la comisión regional de las Naciones Unidas en Santiago de Chile, y en ella participaron además el Director General de Políticas Sociales del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social paraguayo (MDS), Cayo Cáceres, el Encargado de Negocios a.i. de la Embajada de Paraguay e…

Road transport in Latin America: evolution of its infrastructure and impact between 2007 and 2015

This issue analyses data on investments in Latin American road infrastructure between 2007 and 2015, examines the subsector’s evolution and emphasizes the negative repercussions of accident fatalities and carbon emissions. It aims to raise awareness about the importance of this mode of transport in the region and to underscore the need for socioeconomic evaluations of road projects and for additional, better and more transparent data and information on the sector, using a cross-cutting approach in pursuit of sustainable development.…

Capital Flows to Latin America and the Caribbean: 2018 Year-in-Review

In 2018, bond issuance from Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) slowed, bond spreads widened and credit quality deteriorated. The region saw the best and the worst conditions for tapping international capital markets in 2018. In January 2018, issuers from the region placed their highest ever monthly volume of debt in international markets. On the other hand, December 2018, with no issuance recorded, was the worst December on record for LAC issuers. Bond activity in 2018 was affected by a heavy electoral calendar at the domestic level, and by U.S. interest rate hikes, withdrawal of dollar li…

Territorio y desarrollo en la Argentina: las brechas estructurales de desarrollo en la provincia de Formosa

En este documento se hace un análisis integral de la situación de la provincia de Formosa (Argentina) en materia de ingresos, desigualdad, empleo, pobreza, educación, salud, producción, infraestructura y medioambiente. Se sitúa a la provincia en perspectiva frente a las regiones específicas a la que pertenece y a la totalidad de la Nación. A partir de los resultados observados, se sugieren ciertas áreas de intervención estratégica para la agenda de políticas públicas de la provincia: el mejoramiento de la infraestructura energética y comunicacional, la integración de las cadenas productivas y …

Innovating Access to Information

A new search service (MetaSearch) and Library Management System…

Innovando en el acceso a la información

Un nuevo servicio de búsqueda (Metabuscador) y Sistema de Gestión de Biblioteca…

Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG targets 1.2 and 1.4: standards, availability, comparability and quality

This report offers a review of 14 non-monetary indicators of poverty to monitor progress towards the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) “End poverty in all its forms everywhere”. The reviewed indicators are housing materials, overcrowding, housing tenure, durable goods, access to safe water and improved sanitation, access to clean sources of energy, garbage collection and nearby sources of contamination, (public) transportation, child attendance to school and adult schooling, employment, social security and access to health care.…

Challenges in designing national multidimensional poverty measures

Countries are increasingly interested in having an official multidimensional poverty index (MPI). This is the expression of a growing consensus regarding the limitations of income poverty measures as standalone indicator. This paper analyses the challenges in designing such indices. Specifically, it addresses the selection of the unit of identification, the selection of dimensions and indicators, including the issue of missing values and the debate on whether to include an indicator of monetary deprivation or not, the weighting structure and the poverty cutoff. In general, for all the reviewed…