El viernes 30 de agosto de 2024, en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe en Santiago, Chile, se efectuó la sesión de clausura de la 25ª versión del Programa de Estudios sobre Políticas del Desarrollo de la Escuela Latinoamericana de Estudios del Desarrollo (ELADES) de la CEPAL.
En esta edición del Programa –iniciada el 11 de julio- postularon 283 personas de 29 países del mundo. Las/os 28 estudiantes seleccionadas/os provinieron de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, España, Italia, México, Paraguay, República Dominicana y Uruguay.
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The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…
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“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…
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