2 Oct 2000, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:38
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This document discusses the relevance, strengths and limitations of social indicators. Difficulties encountered in the analysis of such data in the Caribbean are identified and discussed. Issues related to the availability of social data for social planning and the implementation of programmes and projects are also explored.…
1 Ene 2000, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Abstract Economic globalization has had a variety of consequences for employment including changes in labour market structure, making way for new non-standard (or atypical ) forms of employment. These are often associated with low-quality employment, to such an extent that the concepts non-standard forms of employment and precarious employment are used as synonymous expressions. The literature shows that women have been affected the most by these changes. This study considers a particular example of non-standard employment: part-time work in Chile. The …
15 Mar 2000, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:40
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Background
The mandate for gender mainstreaming underpins the comprehensive provisions of the Beijing Platform for Action which itself finds continuity with the concern for the development of institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women contained in the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies.
Governments in the Caribbean have attempted in various ways to advance gender equity not only through substantive policy but also through administrative reform. In these attempts, governments have both made progress and confronted conceptual and operational difficulties. The United Nations
mid-term r…
1 Feb 2000, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:22
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La edición 1999 del Anuario estadístico de América
Latina y el Caribe contiene una selección actualizada a comienzos de diciembre de las principales series
estadísticas disponibles sobre la evolución económica
y social de los países de la región. Representa un
sistemático esfuerzo de la División de Estadística y
Proyecciones de la CEPAL, orientado a homogeneizar
las cifras y a hacerlas internacionalmente comparables. uarios en forma oportuna.
La primera parte comprende indicadores
socioeconómicos derivados (tasas de crecimiento,
proporciones o coeficientes), que representan una visión
resumida…