1 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Publicación
This paper discusses the role of institutions and structural change in shaping income inequality. It is argued that while social expenditure and direct redistribution are crucial for improving income distribution, sustainable equality requires structural change to create decent jobs. The relative importance of these variables in different countries is analyzed and a typology suggested. It is argued that the most equal countries in the world combine strong institutions in favor of redistribution and knowledge-intensive production structures that sustain growth and employment in the long run. Bo…
22 Jul 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:55
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Comunicado de prensa
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, indicó hoy que la región debe apostar por la innovación para elevar la productividad y generar empleos de mayor calidad, impulsando al mismo tiempo el dinamismo económico y la inclusión social.
Alicia Bárcena intervino en Santiago de Chile en el III Foro Chile-Unión Europea, dedicado a la innovación como motor de desarrollo e inclusión social y organizado por la Fundación Euroamérica. A lo largo de dos días (21 y 22 de julio), el encuentro también contó con la participación de la President…
15 Oct 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:55
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Comunicado de prensa
The flows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) towards 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries declined 21% during the first half of the year compared to the same period of last year, to total 88,717 million dollars, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reported.
The data revealed today is the update ECLAC issues each year on the main figures of the Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean report, the latest edition of which was launched in May.
Among the factors that explain the decline of FDI towards the region are the fall of investments in…
1 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:49
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In its latest edition, the Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean report analyzes in-depth the FDI received by the Caribbean, where these flows are much more significant than in the rest of the region as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The study also examines the impact of FDI on the environment, which has not been measured or regulated sufficiently by countries in the region…
1 Abr 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:54
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This document was adapted from a paper originally presented to the 8th Annual Caribbean Conference of Comprehensive Disaster Management, held in Montego Bay, Jamaica in December, 2013. It summarizes several activities that ECLAC has undertaken to assess the current state of information and communications technology (ICT) in the field of disaster risk management (DRM) as practiced in the Caribbean. These activities included an in-depth study that encompassed a survey of disaster management organizations in the region, an Expert Group Meeting attended by the heads of several national disaster of…
1 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:54
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eLAC 2018 will coordinate the implementation of programmes to support the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in achieving social and economic development goals for Latin America in the Caribbean during the 2015-2018 timeframe. The conceptual framework for this programme of work is described by the eLAC 2018 Digital Agenda, which is anticipated to be ratified by the fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held in August 2015 in Mexico City.
There is a need for broader input from Caribbean countries to the eLAC 2018…
14 Oct 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Noticias
Un grupo de aproximadamente 30 parlamentarios y expertos del Comité de Futuro del Parlamento de Finlandia visitó este martes 13 de octubre de 2015 la sede central de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, en donde se entrevistaron con el Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto de la institución, Antonio Prado, y conocieron los principales lineamientos del trabajo del organismo de las Naciones Unidas en la región.
La delegación fue encabezada por Carl Haglund, Presidente del Comité de Futuro del Parlamento finlandés, y estuvo compuesta por varios miembros de la c…
14 Oct 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Noticias
A group of approximately 30 parliamentarians and experts from the Finnish Parliament’s Committee for the Future visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. There they met with the institution’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, and learned about the United Nations organization’s main lines of work in the region.
The delegation was led by Carl Haglund, President of the Finnish Parliament’s Committee for the Future, and included various members of that body as well as education experts f…