Environmental Big Push in the Caribbean

Selected online learning experiences in the Caribbean during COVID-19. Policy Brief

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …

CEPAL Review no. 133

Revista CEPAL no. 133

Experiencias de política fiscal con contenido ambiental en países del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA)/COSEFIN y recomendaciones de política pública

La implementación de instrumentos tributarios y no tributarios ambientales permite variar los precios relativos de los bienes, servicios y factores de producción de la economía, posibilitando que se internalice el costo de las externalidades negativas asociadas a su producción o su consumo. Mediante este tipo de instrumentos, la política fiscal puede corregir los resultados no deseados y cambiar patrones de consumo y producción para transitar hacia un modelo económico de desarrollo sostenible y bajo en carbono. En este contexto, con este estudio se busca proporcionar conocimiento y bases valor…

Non-Communicable Diseases and their Impact on Sustainable Development

Construir um novo futuro: uma recuperação transformadora com igualdade e sustentabilidade. Síntese

Este documento afirma que a América Latina e o Caribe podem avançar rumo a um “grande impulso para a sustentabilidade” baseado numa combinação de políticas econômicas, industriais, sociais e ambientais que estimulem uma reativação com igualdade e sustentabilidade e lancem um novo projeto de desenvolvimento na região. O documento está organizado em cinco capítulos. O primeiro estuda as três crises (lento crescimento, crescente desigualdade e emergência ambiental) que afetam as economias e as sociedades no âmbito mundial e as da América Latina e do Caribe. O segundo apresenta um quadro para anal…

Industrial policy and the road to recovery

ECLAC Highlights the Importance of Industrial Policy to Build Back Better in the Region after the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) highlighted today the importance of the region having an industrial policy that incorporates innovation, technical progress, equality and sustainability as drivers of economic growth, to be able to overcome the current crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and build back better, during a high-level virtual seminar organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The international webinar on “Industrial policy and the road to recovery” was commenced by the Director General of UNIDO, LI Yong, and…

CEPAL recalca importancia de la política industrial para reconstruir mejor en la región tras la pandemia del COVID-19

La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) recalcó hoy la importancia de contar en la región con una política industrial que incorpore la innovación, el progreso técnico, la igualdad y la sostenibilidad como motores del crecimiento económico, para poder superar la actual crisis derivada de la pandemia del COVID-19 y reconstruir mejor, durante un seminario virtual de alto nivel organizado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo Industrial (ONUDI). El webinario internacional “Política industrial y el camino hacia la recuperación” fue introducido por el Di…

Economic implications of the ban on single-use plastics in the Caribbean: A case study of Trinidad and Tobago

Over the past 50 years, the global annual production of plastics has increased dramatically, from 15 million tons in 1964 to roughly 311 million tons by 2014. This spectacular growth has occurred due to its unrivalled physical properties, which allow it to be widely applied in diverse economic production processes, at low cost. One of its main appplications has been in the packaging industry where roughly 26% of the global volume of plastics is used. More importantly, as much as 95% of plastic packaging – estimated at USD 80 – 120 billion annually - is for single-use, either as packaging or as…

Creating an enabling environment for e-government and the protection of privacy rights in the Caribbean: A review of data protection legislation for alignment with the General Data Protection Regulation

This study examines the data protection laws of six Caribbean countries with a view to identifying gaps and weaknesses and making targeted recommendations for revision of existing legislation or adoption of new legislation in order to bring it into compliance with regional and international standards, including the GDPR. Due to its extraterritorial scope and influence, the GDPR is prompting the harmonisation of data protection legislation around the world and a number of Caribbean countries aligned with the GDPR across the subregion will not only guarantee individual privacy rights but also he…

Building a New Future: Transformative Recovery with Equality and Sustainability. Summary

This document, presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to its member States at its thirty-eighth session, argues that Latin America and the Caribbean is in a position to move towards a “big push for sustainability” through a combination of economic, industrial, social and environmental policies capable of driving a recovery with equality and sustainability and relaunching development in the region. The document has five chapters. The first studies the three crises (slow growth, growing inequality and the environmental emergency) affecting economies and …

Construir un nuevo futuro: una recuperación transformadora con igualdad y sostenibilidad. Síntesis

En este documento presentado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) a los Estados miembros en su trigésimo octavo período de sesiones, se sostiene que América Latina y el Caribe puede avanzar hacia un “gran impulso para la sostenibilidad” basado en una combinación de políticas económicas, industriales, sociales y ambientales que estimulen una reactivación con igualdad y sostenibilidad y relancen un nuevo proyecto de desarrollo en la región. El documento se organiza en cinco capítulos. En el primero, se estudian las tres crisis (lento crecimiento, creciente desigualda…

Building a New Future: Transformative Recovery with Equality and Sustainability

This document, presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to its member States at its thirty-eighth session, argues that Latin America and the Caribbean is in a position to move towards a “big push for sustainability” through a combination of economic, industrial, social and environmental policies capable of driving a recovery with equality and sustainability and relaunching development in the region. The document has five chapters. The first studies the three crises (slow growth, growing inequality and the environmental emergency) affecting economies and …

Construir un nuevo futuro: una recuperación transformadora con igualdad y sostenibilidad

En este documento presentado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) a los Estados miembros en su trigésimo octavo período de sesiones, se sostiene que América Latina y el Caribe puede avanzar hacia un “gran impulso para la sostenibilidad” basado en una combinación de políticas económicas, industriales, sociales y ambientales que estimulen una reactivación con igualdad y sostenibilidad y relancen un nuevo proyecto de desarrollo en la región. El documento se organiza en cinco capítulos. En el primero, se estudian las tres crisis (lento crecimiento, creciente desigualda…

The environmental tragedy of Latin America and the Caribbean. Offprint

This book, of which we present an preliminary offprint version in English, is the result of a collective analysis undertaken at the invitation of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as part of the discussions supporting preparations for the thirty-eighth session of the Commission. With the collaboration of Nicolo Gligo, it was possible to bring together a group of pioneers in the analysis of sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean whose thinking has been informing this field of the social and scientific disciplines since the 1970s. Their diffe…

La tragedia ambiental de América Latina y el Caribe

Este libro es el resultado de una reflexión colectiva a la que invitó la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en el marco de las discusiones que apoyaron la preparación del trigésimo octavo período de sesiones de la Comisión. Con la colaboración de Nicolo Gligo, fue posible reunir un grupo de pioneros en la reflexión sobre el desarrollo sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe, que desde los años setenta nutren con su pensamiento este campo de las disciplinas social y científica. Sus diversas contribuciones se integran en los 12 capítulos de este documento, que abordan lo…

A Blue Path for the Caribbean: Ocean Sustainability for Prosperity and Resilience

La emergencia del cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe

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