1 Ago 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:37
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The findings and analysis of this study are based on desk review and secondary data to substantiate this growing phenomenon, especially among the female population. Further the recommendations that will be put forward in this study will be added to the literature and serve as a baseline for further study in the Caribbean region.
The study is sectionalized as follows. Chapter one discusses in brief the demographics, social and economic profiles of Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. This chapter also examines the employment rate, gender and poverty, and the achievements and pro…
1 Ene 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:31
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The chronic inequality that characterized Latin America and the Caribbean has its roots not only in the region’s history but also in a pattern of development and modernization that perpetuated the socio-economic gaps. Very recently, however, the region experienced a period of sustained growth between 2003 and 2008, in which the indicators of poverty, indigence and even concentration of income improved, breaking, although for a short period, the so-called “empty box” of Fernando Fajnzylber. It is well known that the state can promote greater social equity through more effective public policies.…
Este Día de las Naciones Unidas para la Cooperación Sur-Sur se conmemora al final de un año rico en acontecimientos y marcado por protestas populares contra la desigualdad, la indignidad y la opresión.
La cooperación Sur-Sur puede ayudarnos a hacer frente al desafío compartido de crear un mundo más equitativo y sostenible.
En el Cuarto Foro de Alto Nivel sobre la eficacia de la ayuda, celebrado recientemente en Busan (República de Corea), los participantes acordaron que la cooperación Sur-Sur era un instrumento de desarrollo decisivo para fomentar la igualdad entre los países y dentro de cada …
25 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:37
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(25 de febrero, 2011) "El fortalecimiento de la industria es condición necesaria para lograr sociedades con más y mejores empleos y con una distribución del ingreso más igualitaria", señaló anoche en Buenos Aires la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena.
Bárcena visitó Argentina para firmar convenios de cooperación técnica con el gobierno de ese país y participar en la ceremonia de lanzamiento del Plan Estratégico Industrial 2020, en el que colaborará la CEPAL.
"Sólo con políticas industriales de largo plazo, los países pueden apr…
4 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:37
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(3 February 2011) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, met senior officials from the European Union (EU) this week in Brussels to exchange views on how to strengthen dialogue and cooperation between the two regions.
During her three-day visit to the Belgian capital, home to the main EU institutions, Bárcena met with the Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service, Pierre Vimont, highlighting the importance of renewing and strengthening the strategic relationship that began in 1999 with the first …
25 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:37
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(25 February 2011) "Strengthening industry is a prerequisite for achieving societies with more and better quality jobs, and a more equal income distribution", according to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, speaking last night in Buenos Aires.
Bárcena visited Argentina to sign technical cooperation agreements with the country's Government and take part in the launch ceremony of the 2020 Strategic Industrial Plan, in which ECLAC is involved.
"Countries can only take advantage of all the potential of the domestic market…
14 Jun 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:37
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Watch video "Employment, master key to equality" (in Spanish, subtitles in English)
(14 June 2011) The strong economic recovery of Latin America and the Caribbean will make it possible to bring down unemployment significantly from 7.3% in 2010 to between 6.7% and 7.0% in 2011, according to ECLAC and ILO.
In the latest edition of the joint publication The Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean that was released today, the two United Nations agencies analyse labour trends in the region, as well as the countercyclical policies implemented by some countries during the recen…
4 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 08:37
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(3 de febrero, 2011) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, se reunió esta semana en Bruselas con altos funcionarios de la Unión Europea (UE) para intercambiar puntos de vista sobre cómo fortalecer el diálogo y la cooperación entre ambas regiones.
Durante su visita de tres días a la capital belga, sede de las principales instituciones de la UE, Bárcena sostuvo un encuentro con el Secretario General del Servicio Exterior Europeo, Pierre Vimont, donde se recalcó la importancia de renovar y fortalecer la relación estratégica inici…