In this paper, the main factors that influence the demand for maritime passenger transportation in the Caribbean were studied. While maritime studies in the Caribbean have focused on infrastructural and operational systems for intensifying trade and movement of goods, there is little information on the movement of persons within the region and its potential to encourage further integration and sustainable development. Data to inform studies and policies in this area are particularly difficult to source. For this study, an unbalanced data set for the 2000-2014 period in 15 destinations with a f…
This study addresses the ageing of the Caribbean population and the situation with respect to the human rights of older persons. It considers the implications for public policy of these ‘twin imperatives for action’. The first chapter describes and explains the changing age structure of the Caribbean population. Important features of the ageing dynamic, such as differential regional and national trends and the growing number of ‘older old’ persons, are also analysed. The study then describes the progress that has been made in advancing and clarifying the human rights of older persons in intern…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) are jointly hosting a Regional Capacity Building Workshop in Kingston, Jamaica from 04-15 April 2016. The event, also a collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will provide technical training to 17 persons from the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Saint Kitts and Nevis to promote wider use and analysis of national Population and Housing Census data.
Experts from ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile and its Caribbean office …
It is not possible to trace the early demographic development of the Turks and Caicos Islands due to lack of data, but what is evident from the limited historical data is that population developments beginning in 1921 and up to 1970 followed the same path as other Caribbean Islands.
The Turks and Caicos Islands have experienced unprecedented population growth over the last twenty years due largely to the immigration of people from neighbouring countries seeking employment created by the development of tourism. Such rapid population changes for the small island group present many social, econo…
Work and employment around the globe change continuously, but there potentially more rapid and fundamental transformations ahead as new technologies can have major impact on what jobs will exist in the future, how people will work and how the global division of labor will evolve. This contribution tries to assess the current outlook into the foreseeable future and highlights the importance of labor market institutions that can effectively influence the future of work. The paper in particular addresses the need to reform and update labor market regulation, social protection and active labor mar…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, reafirmó esta semana en París que la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible es una oportunidad única para cambiar el estilo de desarrollo y transitar hacia sociedades más productivas orientadas al bienestar de las personas.
Bárcena se encuentra participando en la Semana de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE) 2016 y en el Foro Económico Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe 2016, que se realizan en la capital francesa entre el 31 de mayo y el 3 de …
The data revolution for sustainable development has triggered interest in the use of big data for official statistics such that theUnited Nations Economic and Social Council considers it to be almost an obligation for statistical organizations to explore big data. Big data has been promoted as a more timely and cheaper alternative to traditional sources of official data, and one that offers great potential for monitoring the sustainable development goals. However, privacy concerns, technology and capacity remain significant obstacles to the use of big data. This study makes a case for incor…
This study addresses the balance struck under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) between the right to health and access to medicines and the need to maintain the economic incentives to spur innovation and research and development through intellectual property protection. The analysis focuses on the patent and data-related intellectual property protection provisions of the TPPA, specifically regarding pharmaceutical (small-molecule and biologic) products, including on patent duration, linkage and term extensions as well as clinical test data protection and market exclusivity.
Specia…
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) commissioned this study to analyze the implications of the balance struck under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) between the right to health and access to next-generation medicines on the one hand, and on the other, the private right to intellectual property protection and the need to maintain profit-earning incentives to spur innovation and research and development. The study focuses on the patent and data-related intellectual property protection provisions of the TPPA, specifically regarding phar…
An on-line survey of experts was conducted to solicit their views on policy priorities in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Caribbean. The experts considered the goal
to “promote teacher training in the use of ICTs in the classroom” to be the highest priority, followed by goals to “reduce the cost of broadband services” and “promote the use of ICT in emergency and
disaster prevention, preparedness and response.” Goals in the areas of cybercrime, e-commerce, egovernment, universal service funds, consumer
protection, and on-line privacy rounded out the top 10.
S…
El Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Antonio Prado, detalló hoy la propuesta del organismo para modificar el actual estilo de desarrollo a través de un cambio estructural progresivo basado en la igualdad y la sostenibilidad ambiental y en línea con la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, en el marco de un encuentro de la Unión Europea celebrado en Guatemala.
El representante de la CEPAL intervino en una sesión sobre los Desafíos para la implementación de la Agenda 2030 en América Latina, en la primera jornada de la Reunión regi…
A team lead by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean carried out a mission to hurricane-struck Belize, to provide support to the Government in its effort to undertake comprehensive assessment of the impact of Hurricane Earl which hit in early August 2016, and to assist in the formulation of recommendations for recovery and reconstruction.
The team included experts from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO).
Hur…
Pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will be the main focus of discussion at a meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Tuesday 05 April 2016. Policy makers, representatives from regional organizations, and civil society groups are expected to attend.
Representatives will also consider ways to strengthen the TAC/RCM, as part of effort to re-invigorate the regional body to enable it to more effectively carry out its mandate.
The RCM was established by the Caribbean Development and Cooperation …
Resolución aprobada en el Trigésimo sexto Periodo de Sesiones de la CEPAL que tuvo lugar en la Ciudad de México del 23 a 27 de mayo de 2016 para la creación del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible.…
El Comité Plenario de la CEPAL concluyó exitosamente el jueves 28 de abril en Nueva York el proceso de consultas realizado bajo el liderazgo de Perú para la creación del Foro de los países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, y acordó transmitir la resolución respectiva para la consideración de los delegados que participarán en el trigésimo sexto período de sesiones del organismo regional que se llevará cabo del 23 al 27 de mayo en Ciudad de México.
Esta nueva instancia intergubernamental, que funcionaría bajo el auspicio de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y …
La creación del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible fue aprobada por representantes gubernamentales reunidos en el trigésimo sexto período de sesiones de la CEPAL, realizado en Ciudad de México entre el 23 y 27 de mayo. Esta nueva instancia se constituirá en el mecanismo regional para el seguimiento y examen de la implementación de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, incluidos los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y sus metas, sus medios de implementación y la Agenda de Acción de Addis Abeba sobre financiación para el desarrollo.
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La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) participó en un encuentro sobre desarrollo sostenible celebrado en París, donde el Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto, Antonio Prado, planteó los temas que se discutirán en el próximo período de sesiones del organismo regional, del 23 al 27 de mayo en México, e invitó a los asistentes a sumarse a la reflexión sobre la dimensión regional de la Agenda 2030.
Antonio Prado intervino el martes 10 de mayo en un panel sobre la reducción de la desigualdad en el centro de las estrategias de desarrollo sostenible, en el marco de la Conferencia Inte…