The Hummingbird Vol.2 No.9

Latin America and the Caribbean: looking ahead after the Millennium Development Goals: Regional monitoring report on the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015

The 15-year time frame originally set for meeting the Millennium Development Goals has come to an end. It is time to take stock of the progress made on the Goals deriving from the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. The eight Goals set out to encapsulate the commitments undertaken at the major development conferences and summits held during what came to be known as the “decade of policy-setting”, the 1990s. In September 2015, heads of State and Government will formally adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which sets forth the 17 Sustainable Development Goals together with c…

América Latina y el Caribe: una mirada al futuro desde los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio.Informe regional de monitoreo de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) en América Latina y el Caribe, 2015

Han transcurrido los 15 años fijados originalmente como plazo para cumplir los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) establecidos en la Cumbre del Milenio de 2000 de las Naciones Unidas. Estos ocho Objetivos tenían la finalidad de sintetizar los principales compromisos emanados de las grandes conferencias y cumbres de desarrollo realizadas en la llamada década normativa. En septiembre de 2015, los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno deberán adoptar formalmente la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, que contiene los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible y directrices relevantes sobre sus m…

Data revolution for sustainable development: The Caribbean Challenge

The Caribbean region needs to take full advantage of the data revolution. Big data - a critical element of this revolution - is the term used to describe the enormous amount of digital information that is generated when people go about their daily activities, including shopping, talking, texting, internet surfing, and traveling. It also includes information about natural phenomena generated and/or transmitted by machines, including satellites. The main characteristics of these data that qualify them as Big data are that they are large in volume, they are generated very frequently and they cove…

Capital Flows to Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Developments

This document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Washington Office, presents and analyzes the most recent developments (first half of 2015) concerning capital flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.…

CEPAL Review no. 116

Revista CEPAL no.116

The redistributive potential of taxation in Latin America

This study uses internationally comparable methodologies to analyse the distributional impact of income tax and public transfers in 17 countries of Latin America. The results indicate that fiscal policy plays a limited role in improving the distribution of disposable income; the Gini coefficient decreased by barely three percentage points after direct fiscal action. On average, 61% of this reduction was due to public cash transfers and the rest to direct taxes, reflecting the pressing need for personal income tax to be strengthened. Analysis of household surveys gives an indication of the pote…

El potencial redistributivo de la fiscalidad en América Latina

En este trabajo se efectúan mediciones, comparables con las metodologías internacionales, sobre la incidencia distributiva del impuesto a la renta y las transferencias públicas monetarias en 17 países de América Latina. Los resultados indican que la política fiscal juega un papel limitado en mejorar la distribución del ingreso disponible; el coeficiente de Gini baja apenas tres puntos porcentuales luego de la acción fiscal directa. En promedio, el 61% de esta reducción proviene de las transferencias públicas en efectivo y el resto de los tributos directos, reflejo del imperativo de fortalecer …

Global financial rulemaking and small economies

This paper addresses some unintended consequences of global financial regulation and international tax evasion prevention and their impact on small economies. It explores how failure to recognize countries’ differing access to finance and varying costs of funding as well as the high costs of complying with financial regulations may overlook some unintended consequences, especially on smaller island countries Then, it discusses the global financial architecture and governance of standard setting bodies and the actions taken to improve representation and legitimacy and remediate some of the unin…

Data and Statistics in the Caribbean

Statistics provide an interpretation and summary of data.…

The United Nations regional commissions and the post-2015 development agenda: Moving to deliver on a transformative and ambitious agenda

Las comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas y la agenda para el desarrollo después de 2015: acciones para cumplir con una agenda transformativa y ambiciosa

Statistical report of the Brazilian economy, July 2015

Informe estadístico de la economía brasileña, julio 2015

Informe estatístico da economía brasileira, julho 2015

ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…

Los desafíos de América Latina y el Caribe frente al nuevo escenario global

Agreements of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Acuerdos del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe en su XIV reunión