1 Mayo 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:03
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Food insecurity and hunger are closely associated with extreme poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, but they should not be confused with it. A diet which is insufficient for leading a normal life and is also inadequate from a nutritional point of view affects not only those living in conditions of extreme poverty but also broader sectors and groups living in particular areas or regions of each country. Among the forms of deprivation affecting those living in a state of extreme poverty, however, the lack of access to food is the most serious problem and that which it is most urgent to er…
This issue of the Gender Dialogue focuses on two programmatic areas of
ECLAC’s work over recent years, namely (i) integrating gender into macroeconomic policy and (ii) the use of gender
indicators in public policy-making. In its work on integrating gender into macroeconomic
policy, the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean conducted
a study to determine the capacity of economic planning units in selected
countries of the subregion to integrate gender into the macreconomic planning
process and the findings are highlighted below. The study is intended to assist in the
development of a…
This study investigates the relationship between individual and household characteristics and income inequality in Central America, the Dominican Republic and Mexico from 1990 to 2002. A Theil decomposition exercise of individual and household income inequality is used to determine factors important for the level of inequality. In addition, the use of a novel semi-parametric simulation methodology from DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) provides counterfactual income distributions of individuals and households to assess the importance of changes in their demographic, education and labo…
Hubert Escaith is Director of the Division of Statistics and Economic Projections of ECLAC. These methodological notes were prepared for a lecture at the 2005 ECLAC Summer School. They are based on, and up-date, a series of papers in Spanish published in 2003 and 2004, which received in 2005 the award Maestro Jesus Silva Herzog from Economic Research Institute of the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico. The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization. …
1 Ene 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:10
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A major part of the problem of providing high-quality welfare and social protection to the members of a society lies in the issue of how to distribute the responsibility for these services within the society -a problem referred to in this paper as the care dilemma . Different historical junctures and forms of social organization have witnessed different responses to this dilemma. Strictly speaking, the solution is a variable that depends on culture, level of institutional development, the distribution of the resources of power in a society and the ability of the different relevant s…
29 Ago 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:09
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(29 de agosto, 2005) Dani Rodrik, Profesor de Política Económica Internacional en John F. Kennedy School of Government de la Universidad de Harvard (Estados Unidos), dictará la conferencia magistral titulada "¿Políticas para la diversificación de la economía?" (Policies for Economic Diversification?), con ocasión de la Quinta Cátedra Raúl Prebisch.
La conferencia tendrá lugar el miércoles 31 de agosto de 2005, a las 16:00 horas en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago de Chile (Av. Dag Hammarskjold 3477, Vitacura, Sala Raú…
1 Oct 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:10
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This issue of Gender Dialogue focuses on
Gender and HIV/AIDS. It highlights the main findings
of a gender assessment of policies and programmes
in selected Caribbean countries carried out
by the ECLAC subregional Headquarters for the
Caribbean in collaboration with UNIFEM. It also coincides
with the launch of the Regional Coalition on
Women and AIDS in November 2005.…
1 Oct 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:14
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Reseña Este documento fue preparado por Adolfo Rodríguez Herrera, Consultor de la Unidad de Estudios Especiales de CEPAL, bajo el componente de Macroeconomía, equidad y seguridad social, del proyecto CEPAL/GTZ: Policy Strategies for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Promotion of a Socially Sustainable Economic Policy (GER/01/31) , que contó con el apoyo de la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). Preparado como apoyo al documento La protección social de cara al futuro: Acceso, financiamiento y solidaridad presentado en el XXXI Período de …
1 Oct 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:14
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Reseña Este documento fue preparado por Adolfo Rodríguez Herrera, Consultor de la Unidad de Estudios Especiales de CEPAL, bajo el componente de Macroeconomía, equidad y seguridad social, del proyecto CEPAL/GTZ: Policy Strategies for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Promotion of a Socially Sustainable Economic Policy (GER/01/31) , que contó con el apoyo de la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). Preparado como apoyo al documento La protección social de cara al futuro: Acceso, financiamiento y solidaridad presentado en el XXXI Perío…
1 Oct 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:14
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Reseña Este documento fue preparado por Adolfo Rodríguez Herrera, Consultor de la Unidad de Estudios Especiales de CEPAL, bajo el componente de Macroeconomía, equidad y seguridad social, del proyecto CEPAL/GTZ: Policy Strategies for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Promotion of a Socially Sustainable Economic Policy (GER/01/31) , que contó con el apoyo de la Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). Preparado como apoyo al documento La protección social de cara al futuro: Acceso, financiamiento y solidaridad presentado en el XXXI Perío…
1 Feb 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:01
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The present level of intra-regional trade of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to their total exports is still low when compared to the peak of 21.1% registered in 1997, despite its rebound in 2003 and continued recovery into 2004. While this trade holds a high potential for future growth, there are a series of problems to be addressed in order for regional integration to continue on the paths of recovery and deep integration. The countries in the region should keep working on the constraints that its regional integration process continues to suffer from the persistence of non-tariff…
It has now been five years since the landmark United Nations Millennium Declaration
and related Development Goals (MDGs), wad adopted by Member States. The
Declaration is a blueprint for action and has created a political momentum which
holds great potential not only for improving the rights and empowerment of
women, but more fundamentally for achieving the MDGs. The targets and indicators
represent concrete benchmarks to measure progress on the eight development
goals.
The 2000 Millennium Declaration commits States to promote gender equality and
the empowerment of women as effective ways to c…
25 Oct 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:03
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in collaboration with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Caribbean Office is reviewing gender issues in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) programmes and projects being developed or implemented in the Caribbean subregion. The main objective of this review, of which this report is one component, is to assist in developing a programme for combating HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean within the context of their mandate to provide technic…
1 Ene 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:01
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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…
1 Abr 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 18:10
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On the basis of a study on mortgage loan options available in
eight Latin American countries, this article identifies two pending tasks for most of the countries: the need to make long-term funds available to mitigate the risk of a mismatch of maturities and rates, and the need to harmonize profitability criteria for lenders with the criterion of access to credit for the low-income population. The paper recommends the creation of linkages between the housing finance market and the capital market through secondary mortgage markets, for which the housing
finance market must use instruments other…
As in many other countries, the viability and sustainability of social security
systems in the Caribbean is of concern to policy makers. Although systems in the region
remain relatively young, liquid and healthy at this time, timely reform is necessary to
prevent a crisis in the future. Reform is required to grapple with population ageing, a
fairly large informal (non-contributing); sector in some countries, high open
unemployment and the impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS);. Caribbean social security systems (pension branch);
are defined benef…