1 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Publicación
Dynamic Asia has overtaken the European Union as Latin America and the Caribbean’s second largest export market, after the United States. However, the region’s exports to Asia remain concentrated in few commodities involving a small number of large firms. This book explores the present and future scope for the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in biregional trade and value chains and the measures that can be taken to make those chains more inclusive and sustainable. SMEs have a low direct presence in the region’s export flows and their participation in the supplier net…
1 Feb 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:44
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Publicación
This study builds on the Corporate governance and development of capital markets in Latin America report published by the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which looked at the regulatory framework related to the principles of corporate governance in the region and assessed its contribution to the development of capital markets. This book complements the previous study and is the result of a joint effort by CAF, the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB) and ECLAC to identify the key elements of corporate governance …
26 Ene 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Noticias
Poverty affected 28% of Latin America’s population in 2014, revealing that its decline has stalled at around that level since 2012, while indigence rose to 12.0% from 11.3% during the same two-year period in an overall context of economic deceleration, according to the projections from a study presented today by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The document Social Panorama of Latin America 2014 indicates that the poverty situation in the region remained stable between 2012 and 2013, when it affected 28.1% of the population. It is estimated…
The Caribbean conference on Ageing, elder abuse and the rights of older persons is being organised in collaboration with the Dominica Council on Ageing; the Ministry of Social Services, Family and Gender Affairs of Dominica, and the Association for the Promotion and Integration of Older Persons of Martinique (AMDOR) and takes place on November 30 – December 1, 2015 in Roseau, Dominica.
Population ageing is the most significant demographic trend which will shape Caribbean societies in the 21st century. Over the next 20 years, the number of persons aged 60 and over in the Caribbean subregio…
29 Jul 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Nota informativa
This document synthesizes the most pertinent findings of a survey of over 41 container terminals around the world of which 30 are located in Latin America and the Caribbean and represent 1/3 of the regional annual container throughput in 2014.
The results are part of a global study on energy consumption in terminals and ports of all kinds. Follow ‐ up publications including a larger set of countries as well as with specifications for bulk cargo, liquids and gas are under way. Furthermore, sub ‐ regional and national seminars are envisaged over the course of the year to present the study’s resu…
5 Mayo 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Discurso
Welcome remarks by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF THE CARIBBEAN
Port of Spain, 5-7 May 2015
Excellencies, academic staff, ladies and gentlemen,
This is my first time in the Caribbean and it is a pleasure to be in Port of Spain and especially at the celebrated University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
Today, the Caribbean, like Latin America, is facing a future fraught with challenges and uncertainty. It is unclear whether the models and strategies that have d…
1 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:25
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Publicación
This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development.
The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…
1 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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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…
ECLAC Caribbean recognizes that there are different sectors involved in disaster assessment, and this training is part of the continuing series of ECLAC training sessions aimed at strengthening the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and loss caused by disasters. Participants who benefitted from this particular e training were not only from disaster preparedness agencies, but also from the health, agriculture, public utilities, telecommunications, education, planning and tourism sectors.
An important aspect of this disaster assessment package for Trinidad w…
Statement by Alicia Bárcena
Executive Secretary, ECLAC, United Nations
High Level Launch of the
Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data
Hosted by the Governments of the United States, Kenya, Mexico, and Colombia
New York, 28 September 2015
Jose Angel Gurria, Secretary General of OECD
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Corporate Secretary and President’s Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals, World Bank Group
Amina J.Mohammed, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Post-2015 Development Planning
Justine Greening, UK Secretary of State for International Dev…
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:19
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Discurso
Opening Statement by Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, at the 17th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the CDCC
June 26, 2015
Port of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
Minister Arnaldo Brown, Chair of the CDCC, Jamaica
Minister Winston Dookeran, Trinidad
Ambassador George Talbot, Co-Chair of the Financing for Development process
Other Distinguished Ministers and Senior Representatives of Government,
Members of the Diplomatic Corps,
Representatives of the United Nations system, regional and international organizations,
Members of the Media,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear friends,…
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Noticias
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them.
ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society.
The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and wil…
26 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Noticias
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among these SDGs, those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them.
ECLAC will facilitate the consideration of Caribbean SDGs at a technical meeting of key stakeholders including intergovernmental organizations and civil society.
The meeting, to be held on Friday 27 March at ECLAC Port of Spain, will be attended by Caribbean experts and will cont…
1 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Publicación
Despite its active embrace of trade liberalization and the maintainance of relatively open economies, CARICOM trade performance both within the region and extraregionally has been poor. The nexus between bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Partial Scope Agreements (PSAs) and preferential trade arrangements, which was intended to assist in compensating for the small size of domestic and regional markets, while providing an additional tier of trade and economic integration, has thus far failed to deliver its intended results. This paper makes this conclusion in assessing the performance of t…
Statement by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
ECOSOC dialogue with the executive secretaries of the United Nations regional commissions
Title: Managing the transition to the sustainable development goals: what it will take at the regional level
Venue: ECOSOC Chamber Date: 9 July 2015 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Your Excellency, Martin Sajdik, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Your Excellency, Maria Emma Mejía, Vice-…
10 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Infografía
Over the next twenty years, the Caribbean* will see a rapid and dramatic ageing of its population. With such a rapid increase in the number of older persons on the horizon, there is an urgent need for governments to strengthen social protection against a wide range of risks that older people face.
* -Here the Caribbean refers to Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica; Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Sant Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten,…
23 Ene 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:37
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Comunicado de prensa
(23 de enero, 2015) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, participó en la Reunión Anual 2015 del Foro Económico Mundial (WEF, según sus siglas en inglés) realizada en Davos, Suiza, en donde moderó una sesión de alto nivel sobre el contexto económico de América Latina y sostuvo un encuentro con autoridades y empresarios mineros de todo el mundo, entre otras actividades.
Al presidir la sesión sobre el contexto de América Latina, Bárcena resaltó que tras varios años de bonanza, los países de la región se encuentran hoy en una enc…
26 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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Noticias
Los medios de comunicación son actores clave para la formulación y sostenibilidad de nuevos pactos sociales y de género en América Latina y el Caribe, planteó hoy en la capital chilena María Nieves Rico, Directora de la División de Asuntos de Género de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
Rico fue la principal oradora de la segunda conferencia anual sobre la mujer Medios de comunicación en Chile: diálogos de género, organizada por el David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies de la Universidad de Harvard y el Harvard Club de Chile, en colaboración con la CEPA…
22 Jul 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:46
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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…
8 Mayo 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 10:43
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Comunicado de prensa
(8 de mayo, 2015) La igualdad debe ser el motor del crecimiento económico y el desarrollo sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe, planteó Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en la décima reunión sobre América Latina del Foro Económico Mundial (WEF, según sus siglas en inglés), que finaliza hoy en Cancún, México.
La máxima representante de la CEPAL fue una de las expositoras en el panel From Poverty to Prosperity (De la pobreza a la prosperidad) realizado el jueves durante el evento que reúne a más de 750 líderes de gobierno, …