This document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Washington Office, presents and analyzes the most recent developments (third quarter of 2015) concerning capital flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.…
This document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Washington Office, presents and analyzes the most recent developments (first half of 2015) concerning capital flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.…
Side event as part of the Sixty-first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean…
Introduction Much has been written on the difficulty of obtaining statistical data on the Caribbean. Many commentators have examined the problem from several angles, including the organization of the statistical offices, the issue of training and the issue of budgetary resources that impose an upper limit to the size of staff that can be employed at the statistical office. While there is much to say about any of the issues given as examples of the facets of the problem, in the final analysis the management of limited statistical resources is at the core of the data poverty. Th…
A workshop on Economic Analysis Using Input-Output Matrices was held from August 23 to 25, 2017 in Quito, Ecuador. The workshop reviewed fundamental methods in the analysis of input-output matrices and integrated practical examples to support the work of public officials in the countries of the Andean Community (CAN). Participants in the workshop included public officials from central banks and statistical institutes of the countries of the Andean Community, as well as officials from various institutions in Ecuador (Central Bank of Ecuador, Ministry of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Tourism, Natio…
More than 60 people participated in the seminar, including development bank officials, government officials and experts in financial inclusion from 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.…
Among Caribbean statistical offices, there is widespread awareness of the issue of statistical confidentiality which has often led to quite strong restrictions on the availability of detailed and disaggregated census tables. In North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, statistical offices use disclosure control methods, particularly methods involving some form of data perturbation, to safely publish detailed and disaggregated census tables. These methods are not used in the Caribbean (or Latin America) but could safely facilitate the release of much more detailed census tables than has…
This document is part of an effort to take inventory of the current state of ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) statistics in Latin American and Caribbean countries, particularly in National Statistic Offices (NSOs). In this study fifteen countries are investigated regarding three sources of information: Internet research, e-mails and phone calls and through the meta-data questionnaire Status of information society statistics in National Statistic Offices, applied to NSOs of Latin America and the Caribbean during August 2004 in the frame of OSILAC. The effort concluded with a wo…
Summary 1. The statistics offices in the region utilize state of the art technology for processing their trade data, and report producing statistics on a regular basis. The periods of publications are monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, annually, and semi-annually, but vary amongst countries. 2. The warrants presented by importers and exporters to the customs departments for the clearance of goods is the main source of trade data in each country. After checking and processing, a copy of the warrants is placed in batches and forwarded to the statistics office, usually on a monthly basis. In some co…
By means of an official statement sent to ECLAC on 22 September 2014, the Plurinational State of Bolivia made official its participation in the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.…
The Republic of Turkey officially became a Member State of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at a ceremony held this Friday, September 29, in the Patio de las Banderas of the UN regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The event was presided by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, and Naciye Gökçen Kaya, the Republic of Turkey’s Ambassador to Chile. Also in attendance were representatives of the diplomatic corps stationed in Chile, as well as national authorities and officials from international organizations. “Today we officially welco…
Staff of the Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre Dale Alexander: Chief Lika Doehl Diouf: Associate Programme Management Officer Rossano Thompson: Senior Programme Assistant Tricia Blackman: Senior Library Assistant Angela Martin-Forbes: Programme Management Assistant…
Staff of the Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre Dale Alexander: Chief Lika Doehl Diouf: Associate Programme Management Officer Rossano Thompson: Senior Programme Assistant Tricia Blackman: Senior Library Assistant Angela Martin-Forbes: Programme Management Assistant …
Interactive dialogue with senior officials of the UN System on Preparations for the World Social Summit under the title “the Second World Summit for Social Development”…
Statisticians from the statistical offices of over twenty Caribbean countries and overseas territories will soon be equipped with increased capacity in census planning, management and implementation. A four-day workshop organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with the Secretariat for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), will take place in Kingston, Jamaica, from 8 to 11 April 2019. Caribbean statistical offices will be carrying out population and housing censuses between 2020 and 2022…
As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the statistical capacities of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in the region, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) convened a two-day Regional Training Workshop on Data Sharing, Data Ownership and Harmonization of Survey Datasets on 26-27 August 2009 at the Cascadia Hotel, Trinidad and Tobago. This workshop was one of the concluding activities of the Project on Improving Household Surveys in the Caribbean which has been implemented by the ECLAC Subregional office from 2007.…
The ECLAC Office in Washington D.C. has published new issue of its Series Studies and Perspectives.…
This document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Washington Office, presents and analyzes the most recent developments…
The ECLAC Office in Washington D.C. has published new issue of its Series Studies and Perspectives.…
The overall objective of this regional workshop is to train staff from the statistical offices of Jamaica and Belize in the use of REDATAM for the development of web applications for online dissemination of census and survey microdata. With follow-up support from ECLAC to be provided as necessary, the two statistical offices will then use REDATAM for online dissemination of their 2022 census data.…