El destacado profesor de economía brasileño Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo visitará la sede central de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, para dictar la XII Cátedra Raúl Prebisch y participar en el Seminario sobre neoestructuralismo y economía heterodoxa, que se realizarán el 22 y 23 de abril próximos. El profesor Gonzaga Belluzzo ofrecerá el lunes 22 de abril a las 11:00 horas su charla titulada "Las transformaciones en las relaciones centro-periferia y su impacto en el desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe"…
El objetivo de este seminario es discutir sobre los alcances y desafíos en la medición funcional del gasto social en la región, con especial énfasis en la medición de la inversión en protección social.…
Resultados The cooperation programme focused on developing knowledge and strengthening LAC countries’ capacities to implement synergic public policies aiming at upgrading the productive structure; improving equality and universal social protection; fostering gender equality and linking the governance of the natural resources sector to the strengthening of social equality. The programme substantially contributed to foster the discussion and the positioning in the regional agenda of important issues pertaining to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development. For exa…
The aims of the Social Development Division include contributing to the assessment and analysis of the social situation of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean, and its work focuses on specific groups in the various countries of the region, including children. It also conducts analyses of public policies aimed at improving the living standards of persons under the age of 18 and makes proposals to redress existing shortfalls in the fulfilment of children’s and adolescents’ rights. Areas of interest Child poverty Children living in poverty are dep…
Education is the main mechanism for achieving progress in multiple dimensions of social inclusion: greater equality of opportunity, skills for future social mobility, the formation of an active citizenry respectful of rights, familiarity with various cultural codes and access to the labour market with greater options. In recent years, ECLAC has focused on analysing the role of education in social inclusion, by monitoring gaps, progress and challenges, and looking in particular at levels of schooling (primary and secondary). One of the main challenges facing the region is continuing to improve …
The Social Development Division’s work on food and nutrition security is underpinned, first, by the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, which enshrines food as a fundamental right and calls upon States to ensure food and nutrition security and, second, by the need to address major inequalities in access to food despite its availability in the region, which severely curtail fulfilment of the right to food and prejudice the nutritional status of the population. The Division’s work in this area has involved analysing the social, economic and cultural factors…
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto, adopted on 13 December 2006 at the Headquarters of the United Nations, undoubtedly constituted a major landmark for persons with disabilities and has contributed to the mainstreaming of disability into the region’s political and social agenda.The Convention adopts a broad categorization of persons with disabilities and reaffirms that all persons with any type of disability must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms. It has been ratified by 152 Member States of the United Nations. In the regio…
Social protection encompasses policies that are geared towards the exercise of economic, social and cultural rights and towards protecting against uncertainty and risk, on the basis that people’s present and future well-being are affected by, among other factors, illness, difficulties in meeting the care needs of children, persons with disabilities or some sort of fragility, episodes of unemployment or underemployment, and the loss or substantial reduction of income in old age. Without adequate policies, socioeconomic conditions can worsen inequalities, vulnerability and poverty. Social protec…
The aims of the Social Development Division include assessment and analysis of the social situation of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean and examination of social policy management and impact. In this connection, one of the Division’s current priorities is tracking and assessing social investment in the countries of the region, which involves collecting, disseminating and analysing statistics related to (public and private) social investment, which are published annually in the Social Panorama of Latin America, among other specialized documents. The Division maintains the relev…
Resultados Las investigaciones se han compartido en la amplia red de organizaciones y gobierno que participan en EUROsociAL II. Dos documentos específicos han sido publicados: "Calidad del cuidado y la educación para la primera infancia en América Latina. Igualdad para hoy y mañana " y "Calidad de los servicios de largo plazo para personas adultas mayores con dependencia".…
Estrategia de implementación Las actividades relacionadas con este proyecto incluyen desarrollar un observatorio de juventud online que contendrá datos estadísticos de la población joven de la región, información acerca de políticas y programas, una biblioguía, un mapeo de las organizaciones de juventud activas en la región y otros recursos para tomadores de decisiones y otras personas interesadas en las juventudes latinoamericanas y caribeñas. También se redactaran tres documentos, uno a nivel regional y dos estudios de caso nacional enfocados en El Salvador y Nicaragua sobre la inclusi…