Economic development

Programmes and projects

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  Financial Inclusion SMEs

  The concept of financial inclusion encompasses all public and private initiatives to bring financial services to those households and SMEs traditionally excluded from the formal financial sector, and furthermore, to improve and perfect the serviceability of the financial system for the players that are already part of the formal financial...

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  Technological transformations in Latin America: Promoting productive jobs and confronting the challenge of new forms of informal employment

  The new types of labour relations that arise from the use of emerging technologies occur in contexts of high labour informality and heterogeneity of the productive structure in Latin America. Risks of greater informality are an obstacle to guaranteeing decent work opportunities and thus can be a barrier to the...

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  Technical and vocational education

  This website aims to disseminate and communicate information about the activities undertaken to strengthen the link between technical and vocational education and training and employment, by putting it on the regional agenda of Latin America and the Caribbean and advocating for political dialogue to foster fiscal, social and labour compacts....