An analysis of the status of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Caribbean

This background paper presents an analysis of the status of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Caribbean. It starts with a general description of the Caribbean and the implications for the current situation of disability. The paper then presents the results of the survey based on two questionnaires to the NGOs and the government ministries with the purpose of collecting first-hand accounts of the realities of persons with disabilities in the Caribbean, as well as to collect information on policies, programmes and other measures related to the rig…

Regional study on Women's unrecognized contribution to the economy

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…

Availability, collection and use of data on disability in the Caribbean subregion

This paper addresses the issue of the availability of data on persons with disabilities in the Caribbean subregion. It was prepared as a background paper for the Subregional Meeting and Capacity-Development Training Workshop on Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Caribbean which was held in Port of Spain from 9 - 10 November 2010. It presents the findings of a survey conducted by ECLAC aimed at gaining insight on current practices of national statistical offices and other data collecting agencies with respect to the collection of natio…

ICT in Latin America: a microdata analysis

This book is the final report of the ECLAC-IDRC project Observatory for the Information Society in Latin American and the Caribbean OSILAC, which aims at understanding the dynamics of the ICT evolution and revolution and producing evidence on its potential to promote socio-economic development. As such, microdata analysis drawn from National Household Surveys and National Innovation Surveys in Latin America were used in the framework of the project in the attempt to reach those objectives. Both statistical information sources provide attractive potentialities in order to investigate not only d…

Distributive impact of public policy

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.…

Brazil: an empirical study on fiscal policy transmission

This article sets out to empirically determine whether the ratiobetween debt and gross domestic product (GDP); affected real and nominalvariables such as the demand for money, the nominal interest rate,investment and the output gap, between January 1995 and March 2008.The specific aim is to identify fiscal-policy transmission channels and decidewhether this policy was active or passive in the period in question. Thestudy finds empirical evidence that fiscal policy was active and monetarypolicy passive -features that characterize a non-Ricardian model.…

Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL participó en Cumbre sobre la Agenda Global 2011

(14 de octubre, 2011) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, participó en Abu Dhabi, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, en la Cumbre sobre la Agenda Global 2011, que reúne a representantes del sector académico, empresarial, gubernamental y de la sociedad civil de todo el mundo. Este espacio de debate, creado en 2008 por el Foro Económico Mundial, congrega anualmente a los miembros de la Red de Consejos de la Agenda Global (Network of Global Agenda Councils) para intercambiar ideas sobre temas clave como la estabilidad financiera, la segur…

Día de las Naciones Unidas para la Cooperación Sur-Sur

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 …

Da inovaçao a política pública: historias de êxito na América Latina e no Caribe

A CEPAL, com o apoio da Fundação W. K. Kellogg, identificou e analisou 4.800 experiências de inovação social provenientes da América Latina e do Caribe, selecionadas em cinco ciclos anuais do concurso. Após visitas de campo e avaliação do Comitê de Notáveis, foram selecionadas 25 experiências ganhadoras - consideradas as mais inovadoras e com maior impacto no desenvolvimento social da região. O objetivo deste livro é colocar estas inovações e, sobretudo, a capacidade que demonstraram para melhorar as condições de vida de todas e todos os habitantes da região, a serviço de grupos mais amplos d…

New information and communications technologies for education in Latin America: risks and opportunities

Over the last two decades, new information and communications technologies (ICT) have been incorporated into education systems around the world, as a way of enhancing the learning experience. Latin American countries have over this time made great efforts not to be left behind in this global trend. The first school-oriented ICT policies and programmes began to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This process has been guided by the notion that ICT have the potential to alter the scenario in which they are introduced, and that they can facilitate the review and reformulation of prevaili…

Social health protection for the elderly in the English-speaking Caribbean

The present paper seeks to contribute to the growing discussion on social protection through an assessment of the status of social health protection systems for the elderly within the English-speaking Caribbean, and a review of the systems in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. It was prepared as a background document for the Expert Group Meeting on Social Health Protection for Vulnerable Populations which was held in Port of Spain on 31 October 2011. Against the backdrop of demographic changes underway in the Caribbean, the paper analyses the schemes and mechanisms that have been instituted by M…

Visita del Presidente de la República de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón

Visita de Ricardo Martinelli, Presidente de Panamá