The Hummingbird Vol. 11 No. 12

The Hummingbird Vol. 11 No. 11

Innovations in the ELADES Program with Support from the ECLAC Library

As the latest edition of the Development Policy Studies Program (ELADES) concluded, Felipe Correa, ELADES coordinator, highlighted how the Library's services have been important in facilitating the program and shared its recent innovations.…

Innovaciones de programa ELADES con el apoyo de la Biblioteca de la CEPAL

Concluyendo la última edición del Programa de Estudios sobre Políticas de Desarrollo (ELADES), Felipe Correa, coordinador de ELADES, destaca cómo el servicio de la Biblioteca ha sido importante para facilitar el programa y comparte sus recientes innovaciones.…

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Educating the future workforce

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Artificial Intelligence for Caribbean Sustainable Development

Director’s Desk: Artificial Intelligence for Caribbean sustainable development

2023 saw Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools becoming widely available to the general public, leading to the generation of new works of art, songs, text, and computer code. This explosion in new outputs has led to much excitement around AI’s potential, but also brought to the forefront concerns about countries and communities being left behind, and the technology’s potential to harm individuals and societies. This issue of FOCUS magazine discusses the potential impact of AI on the Caribbean, and avenues to develop tailored AI policies, governance systems, and to engage with AI issues at the int…

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Formación para el trabajo: desarrollo de una herramienta de aprendizaje automatizado para la recomendación de planes formativos en Chile

La formación y capacitación alineada con las necesidades del mercado laboral es indispensable para mejorar la productividad y contribuir al desarrollo económico y social. El objetivo de este documento es presentar los principales resultados obtenidos a partir del desarrollo de una herramienta de relacionamiento entre perfiles ocupacionales de la Comisión del Sistema Nacional de Certificación de Competencias Laborales (ChileValora) y planes formativos del Servicio Nacional de Capacitación y Empleo (SENCE) de Chile, utilizando herramientas de procesamiento de lenguaje natural. Esta metodología p…

The Hummingbird Vol. 9 No. 12

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Resilient and affordable housing in the Caribbean: Policy recommendations towards a transformative, green and inclusive recovery strategy. Policy Brief

The Caribbean faces multidimensional vulnerabilities driven by climate change and aggravated by Small Island Developing States’ natural and economic characteristics (SIDS). A critical natural feature of SIDS is the extreme vulnerability to climate-change-induced events. Economically, the Caribbean has followed the global trend of seeing its urban areas swell during the last decades. Moreover, the region’s coastal areas expose human settlements, infrastructure, and businesses to external shocks, such as climate change-induced extreme weather events. In addition, the 2019 novel coronavirus disea…

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CEPAL Review no. 131

International financial cooperation to address the Latin American economic crisis / José Antonio Ocampo .-- Mapping social conflicts in natural resources: a text mining study of extractive activities / Ramiro Albrieu and Gabriel Palazzo .-- The ECLA technique of programming and economists in Argentina in the mid-twentieth century / Mariano Arana .-- Indicator of the efficiency of value added tax and income tax collection in Ecuador / José Ramírez-Álvarez and Paul Carrillo-Maldonado .-- Growth and heterogeneity of human capital: effects of the expansion of higher education on the income increas…

Revista CEPAL no. 131

La cooperación financiera internacional frente a la crisis económica latinoamericana / José Antonio Ocampo .-- Categorización de conflictos sociales en el ámbito de los recursos naturales: un estudio de las actividades extractivas mediante la minería de textos / Ramiro Albrieu y Gabriel Palazzo .-- La técnica de programación cepalina y los economistas en la Argentina de mediados del siglo XX / Mariano Arana .-- Indicador de eficiencia recaudatoria del impuesto al valor agregado y del impuesto a la renta del Ecuador / José Ramírez-Álvarez y Paul Carrillo-Maldonado .-- Crecimiento y heterogeneid…

The ECLA technique of programming and economists in Argentina in the mid-twentieth century

This article analyses the origin and development of the technique of programming of Jorge Ahumada, of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA),2 and its importance for economists and economic development planning institutions. To that end, it examines the circulation of the technique in various organizations in Argentina and shows how planning gained legitimacy alongside the main economic policy debates of the mid-twentieth century, while describing the institutional circulation of experts and their texts in the country. The ECLA contribution was found to have a direct impact on local …