In the last 15 years, the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have made progress by adopting policies and programs that enable them to tackle the dual challenge of social and labor inclusion of the population, but these gains are not enough to achieve development with equality and sustainability, and there is a risk of rollbacks in the current context of low growth, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicated today.
This is one of the main conclusions of the document Linkages between the social and production spheres: Gaps, pillars and challenges, whi…
Social inequality is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For Latin America —the world’s most unequal region— social inequality also represents a structural feature and therefore a fundamental challenge. In response to the mandate conferred upon the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) by the countries at the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Lima in November 2015, this document pursues the analysis of the social inequality matrix in the region.
The analysis focuses on some of the main axes t…
La desigualdad social se encuentra en el corazón de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. Para América Latina —la región más desigual del mundo— la desigualdad social representa, además, un rasgo estructural y por tanto un desafío fundamental. En respuesta al mandato conferido por los países latinoamericanos y caribeños a la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe durante la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe celebrada en Lima en noviembre de 2015, el presente documento profundiza en el análisis de la matriz de la desigualdad social en…
This book offers a portrayal of the opportunities for social inclusion afforded to young people in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to building stronger youth policies in the region. The youth population must be included in development processes if progress is to be made towards more egalitarian societies, not only because of the numbers of young people vis-à-vis the rest of the population, but also because of what these numbers mean in relation to dependency rates and the needs and issues particular to this stage of life.…
The Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean highlighted synergies between different social and economic policies to eradicate poverty and promote the implementation of the Agenda 2030, concluded ministers participating in the inaugural meeting ending today in Lima, Peru.
"The conference has revealed the need to build intersectoral and comprehensive social policies that account for the multidimensionality of poverty, inequality and social exclusion. It is a matter of growing to equalize and equalizing to grow," said Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the…
Los ministros y ministras participantes en la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe resaltaron hoy la importancia de las sinergias entre las políticas sociales y de otros sectores en la región con el fin de implementar la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, en el cierre del encuentro en Lima, Perú.
“En la conferencia se ha relevado la necesidad de construir políticas sociales intersectoriales e integrales que den cuenta de la multidimensionalidad de la pobreza, la desigualdad y la exclusión social. Se trata de crecer para igualar y de igualar para cr…
United Nations