Poverty
Activities
Calculate to Eradicate: A Symposium On Statistics For Poverty Reduction In The Caribbean
The symposium will explore the different roles that data can play in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of interventions, and ...
Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2024 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum
The Caribbean is home to more than 11 million youth between the ages of 15 and 29. These young people have a central role to play in achieving sustain...
Seminar on reconciliation of information sources for the measurement of income distribution
This seminar is held in hybrid format (in-person and virtual) on 12 October 2023, at the ECLAC headquarters. The construction of the household account...
Seminar on the effects of the pandemic in household surveys
National experiences on the continuity of the production of official statistics based on household surveys during the pandemic and its impact on data ...
News
Income Concentration is Still Extreme in Latin America: The Wealthiest 10% Obtains 34.2% of Total Income, While the Poorest 10% Only Gets 1.7%, ECLAC ...
The annual report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 examines the trap of high inequality, low social mobility and weak social co...
ECLAC Will Launch its Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 Report
At a press conference next Wednesday, November 26, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, will...
UN Regional Commissions Should Play a Central Role in the Implementation and Follow-up of the Agreements Reached at the Second World Summit for Social...
Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director de ECLAC’s Social Development Division, participated in this global event held on November 4-6 in Doha, Qatar, on beh...
As ECLAC Launches New Study on State of Caribbean Poverty Statistics, T&T Ministry Says: Statistics Must Change Lives
Trinidad and Tobago’s Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of the People, Social Development and Family Services, Dr. Natalie Chaitan-Maharaj, says...