Montevideo fue la sede del encuentro regional establecido como antesala del Foro Mundial de Desarrollo Local de Sevilla, en 2025.…
Joint activity under UNDA project: Transport and trade connectivity in the age of pandemics…
La Cuarta Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible se llevará a cabo en forma virtual, del 15 al 18 de marzo de 2021, bajo la Presidencia de Costa Rica. Con anterioridad al inicio de las actividades oficiales del Foro, el día 15 de marzo se realizarán actividades de la sociedad civil y otros actores relevantes. El registro de participantes estará disponible entre el 15 de febrero y hasta el 12 de marzo de 2021.…
This infographic introduces the findings from Study 112, focusing on the digital transformation journey across Caribbean nations. It highlights the varying stages of digital inclusion within countries like Anguilla, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and others. The central aim is to ensure equal access to digital tools and technologies, addressing digital inequalities that mirror social inequalities, particularly in gender, migration, disability, and rural populations. Key challenges for policymakers include broadband access, digital skills training, and cybersecurity. The infographic presents…
Technology transfer can be defined as a broad set of processes covering the flows of know-how, experience and equipment for mitigating and adapting to change amongst different stakeholders, such as governments, private sector entities, financial institutions, nongovernmental organizations and research/education institutions. It covers technology transfer processes among developed countries, developing countries and countries with economies in transition. It involves learning to understand, utilise and replicate the technology, including the capacity to choose and adapt to local conditions and …
The objective of this study is to examine the evolution and characteristics of the financing for the nvironment in Brazil, in order to identify the advances and retreats after the Rio 92 Conference. Brazil has a very decentralized administration, composed of three independent levels of public administration: the federal government, 27 state governments, and more than 5000 municipios, or municipalities; all of them with specific environmental institutions. However, at the time of the completion of this report, there were no indicator…
Abstract Human capital flows can take several forms and include the international circulation of scientists, information technology experts, intellectuals, artists and entrepreneurs. The evidence shows that traditional brain drain , say a permanent and irreversible outflow of human capital, co-exists also with cycles of emigration and return of national talent ( brain circulation ). Thus, for developing countries, the emigration of domestic talent need not be always a permanent loss. However, although return rates vary from country to country, poor economies suffer particularly…
En el marco de los esfuerzos para fortalecer la gestión de la información geoespacial en la región, representantes de esta Comisión asistirán a estas reuniones que se llevarán a cabo en la Ciudad de México, del 9 al 11 de octubre de 2019.…
La Séptima Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible se llevará a cabo en Santiago, del 15 al 18 de abril de 2024.…
Confronted with recurrent macroeconomic shocks, governments in Latin America and the Caribbean have increasingly been concerned about establishing or strengthening systems of social protection and safety net programmes. The goal of these programmes is to help mitigate the impact of shocks on the poor before they occur, and to help the poor cope with the shocks once they have occurred. In this paper, we focus on publicly funded or mandated safety nets functioning as risk-coping mechanisms. The paper reviews the characteristics of a good safety net, in comparison with the main types of safety ne…
Discurso de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, en la inauguración de los trabajos del Primer Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe para el Desarrollo Sostenible 26 de abril de 2017 Palacio Nacional, Ciudad de México Excelentísimo Sr. Enrique Peña Nieto, Presidente Constitucional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Luis Videgaray Caso, Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México, José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Secretario de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Rosario Robles Berlanga, Secretaria de…
Intervención de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, con ocasión de la inauguración del foro Nueva Agenda Urbana, Desafíos y Compromisos de Chile en Habitat III 9 de enero de 2017 Santiago de Chile (Museo de Artes Visuales, MAVI) Paulina Saball, Ministra de Vivienda y Urbanismo, Alberto Undurraga, Ministro de Obras Públicas, Pablo Badenier, Ministro de Medio Ambiente, Autoridades nacionales, locales y comunales, Representantes de organizaciones sociales y del mundo académico, Colegas del Sistema de Naciones Unidas, Señoras y señores invitados, Amigas y amigos, Quiero…
This paper asks whether tepid inflation in Canada since the financial crisis can in part be explained by the effects of monetary policy on inequality. Using different structural vector autoregression models we show that expansionary monetary policy post-crisis has offset otherwise falling inequality through the shifting of resources away from lower-income individuals, which in general have higher marginal propensities to consume. As a result, aggregate demand has not risen as much as it otherwise would have, leading to a more muted inflationary response. Our results suggest that failure to acc…