Lanzamiento Informe COVID-19 No.4: Sectores y empresas frente al COVID-19: emergencia y reactivación

The Hummingbird Vol.7 No.7

Institutional change and political conflict in a structuralist model

The article presents a theoretical model of political conflict and democratic stability in a small open developing economy, using as the basis a structuralist macroeconomic model. Political institutions are given in the medium run, but they vary in the long run as the result of political conflict between capitalists, formal workers, and informal workers excluded from the benefits of social protection conquered by the formal workers. The model suggests that a democratic breakdown is more likely the larger the informal sector, the lower the non-price competitiveness of the economy, and the weake…

New Special Report by ECLAC Analyzes COVID-19’s Impacts on Latin American and Caribbean Businesses and Production Sectors and Proposes Policies for the Emergency and the Reactivation

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present tomorrow, Thursday, July 2, Special Report COVID-19 No. 4 on monitoring the economic and social effects of the coronavirus in the region, entitled Businesses and sectors facing COVID-19: emergency and reactivation. The new document measures and analyzes the effects of the crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean’s business world and production sectors. It combines a short-term view, centered on the emergency, with a longer-term perspective that is of special importance for the reactivation. It proposes measures f…

Nuevo informe especial de la CEPAL analiza los impactos del COVID-19 en las empresas y sectores productivos de América Latina y el Caribe y propone políticas para la emergencia y la reactivación

La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) presentará mañana jueves 2 de julio el Informe especial COVID-19 N⁰ 4 sobre el seguimiento de los efectos económicos y sociales del coronavirus en la región Sectores y empresas frente al COVID-19: emergencia y reactivación. El nuevo documento mide y analiza los efectos de la crisis en el universo empresarial y los sectores productivos en América Latina y el Caribe. Combina una visión de corto plazo, centrada en la emergencia, con una perspectiva de más largo plazo, de especial importancia para la reactivación. Propone medidas para …

Novo Relatório especial da CEPAL analisa os impactos da COVID-19 nas empresas e setores produtivos da América Latina e Caribe e propõe políticas para a emergência e para a retomada

A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) divulgará amanhã, 2 de julho, o Relatório especial COVID-19 N⁰ 4 sobre o acompanhamento dos efeitos econômicos e sociais do coronavírus na região, intitulado: As empresas e setores diante da COVID-19: emergência e retomada. O novo documento mede e analisa os efeitos da crise no universo empresarial e nos setores produtivos da América Latina e do Caribe. Combina uma visão de curto prazo, focada na emergência, com uma perspectiva de longo prazo, de especial importância para a retomada. Propõe medidas para a proteção das em…

Deepening Regional Integration Must Be an Essential Component of Any Strategy for Emerging from the Crisis in Order to Move Towards More Sustainable and Resilient Trade

Deepening regional integration must be an essential component of any strategy for emerging from the crisis produced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in order to move towards more sustainable and resilient trade. This entails strengthening our own production linkages and promoting intraregional trade, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated today. The senior United Nations official spoke during the LVI Ordinary Meeting of MERCOSUR’s Common Market Council, in which the Foreign Ministers of the four countries that mak…

Profundizar la integración regional debe ser un componente esencial de cualquier estrategia de salida a la crisis para avanzar hacia un comercio más sostenible y resiliente

Profundizar la integración regional debe ser un componente esencial de cualquier estrategia de salida a la crisis producida por la enfermedad del coronavirus (COVID-19) para avanzar hacia un comercio más sostenible y resiliente. Esto implica reforzar nuestros propios encadenamientos productivos y promover el comercio intrarregional, afirmó hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas intervino en la LVI Reunión Ordinaria del Consejo del Mercado Común del MERCOSUR, en la que participaron los…

Annotated Provisional agenda. Nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (virtual meeting)

Report of the Fifty-ninth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Report of the Fifty-ninth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (virtual meeting)

Provisional agenda. Nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (virtual meeting)

Temario provisional anotado. Decimonovena Reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (reunión virtual)

Towards Sustainable Cooperative and Non-APC Publishing Models: results of the OpenAIRE report

Iryna Kuchma, member of the OpenAire task group about open access publishing models, in Cycle of Webinar on Open Science organized by ECLAC Library.…

Towards Sustainable Cooperative and Non-APC Publishing Models: results of the OpenAIRE report

Iryna Kuchma, miembro del grupo de trabajo de OpenAire sobre modelos de publicación en acceso abierto, en Ciclo de Webinars sobre Ciencia Abierta, organizado por la Biblioteca de la CEPAL…

Alicia Bárcena Calls for Putting Poverty Eradication at the Center of Debate and Building Back Better with Equality and Sustainability

Statement by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the challenges associated with the goal of poverty eradication are structural, multi-faceted and enduring, and it continues to be the world’s most unequal region as far as income distribution is concerned. For these reasons, we must focus on building back better with equality and sustainability, said Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The regional Commission’s most senior representative participated today in a high-level virtua…

Alicia Bárcena llama a poner en el centro del debate la erradicación de la pobreza y a reconstruir mejor con igualdad y sostenibilidad

Discurso de la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena (en inglés). En América Latina y el Caribe los retos asociados al objetivo de la erradicación de la pobreza son estructurales, multifacéticos y persistentes, y la región continúa siendo la más desigual del mundo en cuanto a la distribución de ingresos. Por ello, debemos centrarnos en reconstruir mejor con igualdad y sostenibilidad, afirmó Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América y el Caribe (CEPAL). La máxima representante de la Comisión regional participó hoy en una Reunión virtual de alto nive…

Key findings of the Internet & Jurisdiction and ECLAC: Regional Status Report 2020

The Internet & Jurisdiction and ECLAC regional status report 2020 is the region’s first comprehensive exercise to map the different policy trends revolving around the transboundary nature of the Internet and how it affects different stakeholders, such as governments, companies and civil society. How might different regional and national regulations create barriers that hinder cross-border e-commerce and investment in digital markets? What economic and social benefits could be realized by harmonizing frameworks throughout the region? A better understanding of this scenario is a key factor i…

The impacts of COVID-19 in Brazil in a complex regional context. Why a sustainable economic recovery is urgent