Access and infrastructure (special issue)

Access and infrastructure (special issue)

A study of climate change in the Caribbean: impacts of climate change in small communitites

ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean…

Network for Cooperation in Integrated Water Resource Management for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean No. 30

Carta Circular de la Red de Cooperación en la Gestión Integral de Recursos Hídricos para el Desarrollo Sustentable en América Latina y el Caribe N° 31

Boletín Envejecimiento y Desarrollo No. 7

The cost of hunger: Social and economic impact of child undernutrition in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) jointly with the World Program of Food (WFP) and recognized experts of the region developed a methodology that, using secondary information, estimate the opportunity cost derived from undernutrition. This methodology has been successfully applied in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic, where the cost of undernutrition was estimated at 6.7 billion dollars in 2004. The present study covers four countries in South America: Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru. The results indi…

REDATAM informa, diciembre 2009

Physical infrastructure and regional integration

This FAL Bulletin issue addresses the contribution physical infrastructure makes to regional integration. It analyses the particular cases of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), the Mesoamerica Project and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).…

Infraestructura física e integración regional

En esta edición del Boletín FAL se aborda el aporte de la infraestructura física a la integración regional y se analizan los casos particulares de la IIRSA, el Proyecto Mesoamérica y la CARICOM.…

Seminario sobre Seguridad Social y Protección Integral para Adultos Mayores: Desafíos y Estrategias en AL y el Caribe y Experiencias Internacionales

The economics of climate change

This paper focuses on several key economic issues relevant to climate change. Given the fact that changes in climate are projections using the best available data, it examines the economic principles of uncertainty and the precautionary approach, and then continues to address the key drivers of climate change. Climate change is expected to result in negative impacts and, in this regard, the consequences of anticipated rising temperatures and sea levels as well as changes in precipitation that may result in flooding and/or drought are addressed. However, the situation is not all negative and, a…

Visita del Presidente de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina, Mahmoud Abbas, en la conmemoración del Día Internacional de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Palestino

Inauguración del Taller Relaciones intergubernamentales y descentralización en América Latina

Seminario "Sentido de pertenencia en el siglo XXI: lecciones desde una perspectiva global para y desde América Latina y el Caribe"

"La economía del cambio climático en Chile"

The statistical infrastructure of Caribbean countries

Panorama social de América Latina 2009

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Foro "América Latina ante la crisis: problemas presentes y desafíos futuros"

Evaluation report: regional training workshop on data sharing, data ownerhsip and the harmonization of survey datasets

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.…