1 Ene 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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individuals spend their time, on a daily or weekly basis, is time-use surveys. These surveys take many
different forms to collect vital information which can be used to estimate not only the value of paid and
unpaid work, but also the composition of the labour force. The time-use survey is the only available tool
for measuring unpaid care work and is also a more cost effective method of collecting timely and accurate
data on the gender division of labour within households and the interdependence of the paid and unpaid
work undertaken by women and men. This data can be used to enhance the formu…
Given the asymmetry in the levels of development and capacity which exist between the EU and
CARIFORUM States, the architects of the CARIFORUM-European Union (EU) Economic
Partnership Agreement (EPA)1 anticipated the need for review and monitoring of the impacts of
implementation. Article 5 and other provisions in the Agreement therefore specifically mandate that
monitoring be undertaken to ensure that the Agreement benefits a wide cross-section of the population
in member countries.
The paper seeks to provide a preliminary assessment of the impact of the EPA on
CARIFORUM countries. In so doin…
1 Nov 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:21
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This paper reviews the current status of the international fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, highlighting the importance of its prevention for economic and financial stability in Latin America and the Caribbean. It synthesizes the recent history of international legislation and agreements with respect to the issues, and presents the framework of public and private sector actors engaged in combating these threats. It reviews Latin American and Caribbean countries’ compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) (40 + 9) Recommendations, and analyzes the regio…
1 Feb 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:22
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Twelve years into the 21st Century, Caribbean countries continue to face considerable challenges on their path towards sustainable development and the creation of a post-2015 agenda. These include redefining their niche in the global market place in line with significant shifts in global production systems and trade, recovering from burdensome fiscal deficits and coping with climate change and the negative effects of more frequent natural disasters. In some countries poverty levels are increasing after years of decline. Most have defined a vision for development into the next 20 years, but in …
1 Nov 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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This paper analyzes Joan Robinson's growth model and then adapts it in order to provide an explanatory taxonomy of Growth Eras. The Growth Eras or Ages were for Robinson a way to provide logical connections between output growth, capital accumulation, the degree of thriftiness, the real wage and illustrate a catalogue of growth possibilities. This modified taxonomy follows the spirit of Robinson's work, but it takes different theoretical approaches. which imply that some of the classifications do not fit perfectly the ones here suggested.
Latin America has moved from a Golden Age in …
1 Abr 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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This study uses the capability approach to undertake a multidimensional analysis of deprivation in urban areas of Brazil between 2003 and 2008 based on a four-dimensional index (living conditions, health, level of education and participation in the labour market) constructed out of 13 different indicators. Its findings indicate that a majority of the population is living in households that are not experiencing deprivation and that, of those that are, the instance of deprivation is confined to a single indicator. When the results were then compared with the income-poverty index for the differen…
3 Jul 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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Comunicado de prensa
(3 de julio, 2014) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, llamó hoy a "descolonizar" la agenda de desarrollo post-2015 y a fijar metas universales y no solo normas prescritas desde los países más avanzados para los países en desarrollo, durante su intervención en el Foro Político de Alto Nivel sobre Desarrollo Sostenible celebrado en la sede de Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.
Alicia Bárcena participó como panelista, junto a los Secretarios Ejecutivos de las comisiones regionales de Naciones Unidas, en un diálogo titulado "Abrien…
La Oficina de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Buenos Aires celebró los días 24 y 25 de abril un Seminario-taller sobre estructura productiva, instituciones y dinámica económica que contó con la presencia del Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto de este organismo, Antonio Prado.
Al encuentro asistieron además el Director de la Oficina en Buenos Aires, Martín Abeles, y diversos funcionarios de la CEPAL, así como economistas que se desempeñan en distintas universidades, centros de investigación e instituciones públicas de Argentina.
En ese foro, Antonio Prado ad…
23 Ene 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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(23 de enero, 2014) Hoy se realizó en Davos, Suiza, el panel titulado La promesa de la Alianza del Pacífico, en el que participaron los presidentes de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, el Primer Ministro de Perú, César Villanueva, y el Ministro de Hacienda de Chile, Felipe Larraín, y que fue moderado por la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena.
En el encuentro, que tuvo lugar en el marco de la reunión anual del Foro Económico Mundial, los panelistas discutieron sobre los retos de este acuerdo, conformado por México, Colombia, P…
5 Ago 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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(5 de agosto, 2014) Las alzas graduales en el salario mínimo contribuyen a reducir la desigualdad y no tienen efectos adversos significativos en el empleo agregado, según subrayó la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en un foro sobre la materia inaugurado hoy en Ciudad de México.
El encuentro, convocado de forma conjunta por la CEPAL, el Gobierno del Distrito Federal, el Consejo Económico y Social del Distrito Federal, la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y la Fundación Friedrich Ebert, se celebrará hasta este miércoles en el Museo Nacional de Antropología …
19 Mayo 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:22
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Columna de opinión
En todos los foros donde se analiza el futuro de América Latina y el Caribe suele repetirse, con diversos énfasis, la misma pregunta: ¿cómo puede la región sostener y ampliar los importantes avances económicos y sociales alcanzados en las últimas décadas en un contexto de desaceleración y alta volatilidad internacional como el actual?
Aunque no se observan riesgos de crisis graves como las ocurridas en los años ochenta, finales de los años noventa e inicios de la década del 2000, la desaceleración parece anunciar escenarios futuros de menor crecimiento. Esto implica que el mercado de trabajo s…
1 Feb 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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Although tourism has been a major economic sector in the Car ibbean s ince the mid-1960s, the sector
now faces significant challenges as competit ion intensif ies in the global tourism market. These
challenges include environmental impacts, and the need for continued high levels of public investment in
order to sustain the tourism product. The precariousness of the sector was made starkly evident with the
onset of the global recession in 2009, when the sector recorded significant decline. Notwithstanding
some limited recovery since that time, the recent experience highlighted the need for Cari…
The Caribbean economy has experienced increased growth in the last year, moving from 1.4% in 2013 to 1.8% in 2014, with even more positive prospects for 2015, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the launch of the flagship report: “Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014”.
This was presented by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena at the Commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on 2 December 2014, and was broadcast online and via videoconference.
Following this launch, the ECLAC subregional headq…
Using a new database of quarterly data for 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean for the 1990-2012 period, this document shows that the duration of GDP contractions appears to be a rather robust indicator of real volatility, and is negatively correlated with long run growth in Latin America and the Caribbean during the period. These results are consistent with different theoretical hypotheses in the literature that relate the duration of GDP contractions with economic growth. They also show that the relationship between real volatility and economic growth in the region is robust to …
1 Nov 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:19
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For six years, the global economy has been driven by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policies of easy money. Liquidity has flowed from developed to developing economies, financing infrastructure and corporate investment and allowing consumers to indulge in credit-fuelled retail spending. Thus the effective ending of the Fed’s third round of asset purchases (QE3) at the end of October represents both a watershed and the beginning of a new stage in the world economy. The end of asset-purchases comes at a challenging time for emerging markets, with China’s economy slowing, the Euro zone struggling to …
1 Jun 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the potential of different variables to increase total factor
productivity (TFP) growth in countries with poor productivity performance. It takes an industry level
approach for a set of countries used as a benchmark. The information comes from the EU KLEMS and
LA KLEMS databases. Once this influence is measured, the difference in the scores of each variable in
four Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico) with respect to the benchmark is
used to test their potential for increasing productivity growth. Results show that, the top p…
28 Mayo 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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Discurso
Opening remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, on the occasion of the 14th International Resource Panel Meeting
Santiago, 28 May 2014
It is a great honour to welcome you to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on the occasion of the 14th International Resource Panel and its Steering Committee under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme-UNEP.
It is especially significant since the decision to hold this Panel of Experts in our region is a source of tremendous p…
1 Abr 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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Despite its importance, the literature on wage differentials between public- and private-sectors employees in Latin America is sparse. This article analyses the wage gap between the two sectors in Chile, based on monthly longitudinal data obtained from the Social Protection Survey (EPS) for the period 2002-2009. The study takes advantage of the panel structure of the data to control for time-invariant observable and unobservable factors that determine the self-selection of workers between sectors and wages. The results show that the wage differential between workers in the public and private s…
1 Feb 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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The Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) was held in Bridgetown, Barbados, from the 25 April – 6 May 1994. This culminated in the Declaration of Barbados and the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. Ten years later an International Meeting to Review Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States was held in Port Louis, Mauritius, from 10–14 January 2005. This international meeting, in turn, resulted in the Mauritius Declaration and …
8 Dic 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:27
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Nota informativa
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.…