La Unidad de Financiamiento para el Desarrollo representó a la CEPAL en un retiro organizado por la Fundación de las Naciones Unidas bajo el tema “Financing and the Means of Implementation for Post-2015.…
Ver galería de fotos (3 de junio, 2014) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, y el Jefe de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, Miguel Ángel Mancera, llamaron hoy a universalizar los derechos de las personas mayores durante la inauguración de un foro internacional sobre esta materia que se celebrará hasta el 6 de junio en la capital mexicana. En la apertura del encuentro, denominado Segundo foro internacional sobre los derechos humanos de las personas mayores, participó también Rosa Icela Rodríguez, Secretaria de Desarrollo…
(20 de mayo, 2014) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, subrayó hoy, al inaugurar en París el II Foro Económico Europa-América Latina, que en esta última región "se requieren pactos sociales y políticos en la sociedad como un todo, así como una nueva ecuación Estado, mercado, sociedad, para fortalecer instituciones y alcanzar la igualdad". El foro, organizado por la CEPAL, la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE) y la Escuela de Economía de París (PSE, por sus siglas en inglés), con el apoyo de lo…
Caribbean governments are set to gain greater capacity in the management of public finance. During the next three years, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will help deepen the expertise of policy-makers and finance managers in the application of methods and procedures for better management and forecasting of public expenditure, revenue and debt. The recent global economic crisis has been particularly severe on the economies of the Caribbean, especially on those that depend heavily on services for their economic growth. Four countries in the region have h…
The Caribbean region remains highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In order to assess the social and economic consequences of climate change for the region, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean( ECLAC) has developed a model for this purpose. The model is referred to as the Climate Impact Assessment Model (ECLAC-CIAM) and is a tool that can simultaneously assess multiple sectoral climate impacts specific to the Caribbean as a whole and for individual countries. To achieve this goal, an Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) with a Computable General Equilibrium C…
The Ministry of Economic Development of Curaçao requested technical support from the ‘Financing for Development Division' of the Economic Commission for Latin American and Caribbean (ECLAC), through the agency of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in order to design and define the process for the establishment of a new development finance organization. From March 24th to 28th, 2014, Mr. Daniel Titelman, and Mr. Esteban Perez, Director and Economic Affairs Officer of the ECLAC's Financing for Development Division, undertook a fact finding mission to Curaçao to assist the government …
The Financing for Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC), through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), gives technical support to Curaçao for setting up a new development finance organization.…
America is one of the priority areas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) of the United Nations and, in particular, of ECLAC Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division (NRID). Prepared as a contribution to the United Nations Development Account Project: “Facilitating the Effective Integration of Developing Countries in the Global Economy through Aid for Trade Schemes”, ROA 139-7, the present document presents the main activities, carried out by NRID for the benefit of the landlocked developing countries since the adoption of the Almaty Programme of Action: …
El Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe presenta un conjunto de estadísticas básicas que caracterizan la situación económica, sociodemográfica y ambiental de la región referidas a un período en particular. Esta información forma parte del conjunto de estadísticas disponibles en CEPALSTAT, el portal de bases de datos y publicaciones estadísticas de la CEPAL. [en línea] http://estadisticas.cepal.org/cepalstat/ Publicación bilingüe (español e inglés), aparece por primera vez en 1973 en sustitución del Boletín estadístico para América Latina y el Caribe, que se publicaba dos veces al …
The Third Caribbean Development Roundtable (23-24 April 2014) was held under the theme “Exploring strategies for sustainable growth and development in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS)”. The Roundtable focused on challenges faced in stimulating growth and creating a capacity for resilience among the Caribbean SIDS. The conference examined the continuing challenge of igniting robust growth in Caribbean Small States, and at the same time, mitigating structural and cyclical risks and uncertainty. The presentations made at the Roundtable can be placed under six themes which comprise …
This study draws on household survey results spanning a period of three decades in length to analyse young people's entry into the labour market in 10 Latin American countries. It finds that: (i) the employment status of young people had deteriorated over time until seeing an improvement in the late 2000s, although youth unemployment and informality rates are still very high; (ii) young people are entering into a typical employment cycle in which they are surpassing the results obtained by adults of earlier generations. Informality is not a part of this pattern, however, indicating the ex…
The paper reviews the extent of the income inequality decline which has taken place in Latin America over 2002-2010 which reduced the regional Gini index to the level of the early 1980s. The paper then focuses on the factors which may explain such decline. These include a drop in the skill premium following an expansion of secondary education, the adoption of a new development model by a growing number of progressive governments which adopted prudent but more equitable macroeconomic, tax, social assistance and labor policies. For the region as a whole, gains in terms of trade, remittances, FDI…
Scant empirical evidence is available on how the Latin American and Caribbean region participates in global value chains (GVCs) and what drives this process. Frequent questions in this connection are: How has the spread of information and communications technologies and free trade agreements facilitated the region’s participation in GVCs? To what extent do small firms participate in GVCs? What learning mechanisms and production and technological feedbacks operate in different types of GVCs? How can countries and firms take advantage of upgrading processes in GVCs? What role do policies play to…
The current survey provides an overview of the economic performance for 2013 of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago plus the eight member states of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) and the outlook for 2014 and 2015. Data were collected from a review of reports from national governments and through interviews with government officials in each of the countries analyzed.…
(19 de mayo, 2014) El Secretario General de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE), Ángel Gurría, abrirá el Segundo Foro Económico Europa-América Latina el día 20 de mayo en París. Estará acompañado en la inauguración por la Secretaria Ejecutiva de CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, y por el Director de la Escuela de Economía de París, Pierre-Yves Geoffard. La reunión, que durará dos días, está coorganizada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y por la Escuela de Economía de París (PSE por sus siglas en inglés) y pretende impulsar el diálogo acer…
(Nueva York, 4 Junio 2014) La Oficina de Financiación para el Desarrollo (FfDO) del Departamento de Asuntos Económicos y Sociales de las Naciones Unidas realizó, en colaboración con el Centro de la OCDE para la Política y Administración Tributaria (CTPA) un taller sobre "Protección de la base tributaria para países en desarrollo", con la participación de representantes de países en desarrollo. Esta reunión forma parte de un proyecto, llevado a cabo por FfDO, que se centra en el fortalecimiento de la capacidad de los países en desarrollo para aumentar su potencial de movilización de los ingreso…
El Secretario General de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE), Ángel Gurría, abrirá el Segundo Foro Económico Europa-América Latina el día 20 de mayo en París junto a la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, y al Director de la Escuela de Economía de París, Pierre-Yves Geoffard.. La reunión, que durará dos días, está coorganizada por la CEPAL y por la Escuela de Economía de París (PSE por sus siglas en inglés) y pretende impulsar el diálogo acerca de los desafíos en el desarrollo que afrontan…
The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator designed to track the development of countries in respect of three dimensions of development: health, education and income. Since it was first published in 1990, great efforts have been made to improve hdi, which, as has been stressed on numerous occasions, cannot be seen as a definitive measure of development. This paper includes a reflection on what constitutes human development, the pillars underpinning it and two new dimensions that should be incorporated into hdi (employment and political freedoms) for it to better express progress in deve…
(26 September 2014) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, attended the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Climate Summit this week in New York, while also accompanying the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in bilateral meetings with numerous Latin American presidents. Bárcena participated in meetings with the presidents of Bolivia, Evo Morales; Brazil, Dilma Rousseff; Chile, Michelle Bachelet; Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández; Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto; Peru, Ollant…