Committee on South-South Copperation: annotated provisional agenda. 7 May 2014

Comité de Cooperación Sur-Sur: temario provisional anotado. 7 mayo 2014

South-South cooperation: note by the Secretariat

La cooperación Sur-Sur: nota de la Secretaría

Latin America needs a new relationship between state, market and society

Over the last decade, Latin American and Caribbean countries have benefited from dynamic growth, with significant progress in the social sphere - something that has been reflected in decreasing levels of poverty and inequality. Most societies in the region have placed the need for greater equality, understood as a guiding principle through which the state should guarantee citizens' rights, as a priority on their agendas for social development. These positive trends are attributable to a combination of factors: a favourable external growth context thanks to the dynamism of China and other emerg…

América Latina necesita una nueva relación entre estado, mercado y sociedad

Durante la última década, los países de América Latina y el Caribe se han beneficiado de un crecimiento dinámico, alcanzando un progreso significativo en la esfera social. La mayoría de las sociedades de la región le han dado prioridad a la necesidad de igualdad en sus agendas de desarrollo social. Como resultado, la pobreza y la inequidad han disminuido. Estas tendencias positivas han sido el resultado de una combinación de factores: un contexto externo favorable; más políticas macro-económicas sensatas; mejores condiciones en el mercado laboral, apoyadas por políticas laborales y de capacita…

The case of Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean: the challenge of building resilience

BOLIVIA: The national Statistical Institute (INE) made available the 2012 Population and Household census database for online processing through its web portal using the Redatam web free software, developed by CELADE/CEPAL

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New Technologies for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

Agriculture faces the challenge of providing food in sufficient quality and quantity to satisfy the demands of a population that will keep growing and whose purchasing power will continue to rise, in the context of climate change and greater social and environmental awareness.…

Nuevas tecnologías en la adaptación de la agricultura al cambio climático

La agricultura se enfrenta al desafío de proveer alimentos en calidad y cantidad suficientes para satisfacer la demanda de una población que seguirá creciendo y cuyo poder de compra continuará incrementándose, en un contexto de cambio climático y de mayor conciencia ambiental y social.…

Política y estrategia de evaluación. Abril de 2014

En el presente documento se describe la política y estrategia de evaluación de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). El objetivo de esta política y estrategia es fortalecer la función de evaluación, aumentando al máximo la transparencia y la coherencia y asegurando un alto nivel de calidad en las evaluaciones. Se espera que esto, a su vez, contribuya en última instancia a una mayor rendición de cuentas y mejor desempeño y aprendizaje institucional en la CEPAL. La política de la Comisión se ha establecido de conformidad con el Reglamento y Reglamentación de la Secreta…

Statistical Bulletin: International Trade in Goods in Latin America and the Caribbean 15

A new frontier for Caribbean convergence: integration without borders

Today, forty years since its birth, the Caribbean integration has reached its limit.1 2 Consequently, there is urgent need to respond to the current realities and emerging global trends — which require greater engagement from the public, students, academics and policymakers — in moving the Caribbean Community towards a new trajectory of Caribbean convergence. The immediate concern is to devise ways of improving the convergence process among Latin American and Caribbean countries. This convergence process will have to be sensitive to both current and emerging global dynamics. This paper present…

CEPAL Review no.112

CEPAL Review no.112

Updated Economic Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013

This report updates the analysis set out in the Preliminary Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013, released in December 2013, on the basis of official data published by the countries in the region in the subsequent months, and presents a revised economic outlook for 2014. In addition, it examines the external factors influencing the region’s performance and their impact on the different components of the balance of payments and summarizes the challenges and main trends in relation to monetary, exchange-rate and fiscal policy. It confirms the deceleration of growth analysed in the Pr…

Balance económico actualizado de América Latina y el Caribe 2013

En este informe se actualiza el análisis presentado en el Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe 2013 (publicado en diciembre de 2013), sobre la base de los datos oficiales de los países de la región que fueron difundidos en los meses siguientes, y se revisan las perspectivas del desempeño económico del año en curso. Además, se presentan los factores externos que incidieron en el desempeño regional y su impacto en los diferentes componentes de la balanza de pagos y se resumen los retos y tendencias principales de las políticas monetaria, cambiaria y fiscal. Se confir…

A regional reserve fund for Latin America

This paper analyses the viability, implications and challenges of expanding the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR) to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay. A regional reserve fund should be viewed as one of a broad range of mechanisms offered by the international financial architecture to address balance-of-payment difficulties. A fund with resources of between US$ 9 and US$ 10 billion at its disposal would be able to cover the potential funding needs of its members in the most likely scenarios, without necessarily becoming the lender of last resort for all its members. In more extrem…

A proposal for a modified Human Development Index

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…

From the classroom to the workplace: Three decades of evidence for Latin America

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…