Social development ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean met today in the Dominican Republic to acknowledge the importance of safeguarding social investment and advancing towards universal protection systems to avoid setbacks in the fight against poverty, given the current economic situation, and to make progress to close the inequality gaps identified by ECLAC in a new document.
This was highlighted during the first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Ca…
The Vice President of the Dominican Republic along with Latin American and Caribbean ministers and senior officials who work on social matters will gather in the Dominican Republic on November 1 to participate in the first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
At the meeting, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present a document entitled The social inequality matrix in Latin America, which addresses some of the core structural aspects of the inequality …
54.4% of the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean used the Internet in 2015, 20 percentage points more than in 2010, which shows the important progress made in the region in the last five years in terms of access to the service and its affordability, according to the report The State of Broadband in Latin America and the Caribbean 2016 (in Spanish), released today by ECLAC.
The publication will be officially presented during the second meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) of the Economic Commission for Latin Amer…