A network analysis approach to vertical trade linkages: the case of Latin America and Asia

This document adopts a network analysis approach to examine the vertical trade relations between Latin America and Asia, showing the potential of these techniques for providing new insights into the patterns and dynamics of countries’ GVC linkages. Particularly, network-based measures are used to assess how important countries are as users and suppliers of foreign intermediate inputs in each network, at both the aggregate and sector level. In addition, clustering techniques are applied to identify groups of supplier countries.…

Discurso de cierre del trigésimo octavo período de sesiones de la CEPAL

Discurso de cierre del trigésimo octavo período de sesiones de la CEPAL Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL Santiago, 28 de octubre de 2020 Querido Rodolfo Solano Quirós, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto de Costa Rica, Dear Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary General, thank you for being with us today, Esteemed Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations and Chair of the Group of 77 and China, Distinguidos Cancilleres, Viceministros y delegados de los Estados miembros de la CEPAL, Señoras y señores miembros del Cuerpo D…

Países de la región reafirman su compromiso con el desarrollo sostenible y urgen por una respuesta articulada para contrarrestar los profundos efectos de la pandemia

Los países de América Latina y el Caribe reafirmaron hoy su compromiso con el desarrollo sostenible y urgieron por una respuesta articulada y a todos los niveles para frenar y contrarrestar los profundos efectos que tendrá en la región la pandemia del coronavirus (COVID-19), que no distingue fronteras, ideologías o niveles de desarrollo. Rodrigo Malmierca, Ministro del Comercio Exterior y la Inversión Extranjera de Cuba, en su calidad de presidente del Comité Plenario de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), participó en el segmento “Foros regionales. Mensajes claves”,…

Alicia Bárcena: el sueño chino es una oportunidad de integración y multilateralismo para la región en línea con la Agenda 2030

La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, afirmó que entender a China es esencial para la región, porque ese país se ha convertido en nuestro segundo socio comercial, representando el 12% de sus exportaciones y el 19% de las importaciones, durante el lanzamiento del libro “El sueño chino: cómo se ve China a sí misma y cómo nos equivocamos los occidentales al interpretarla” que se realizó el jueves 10 de septiembre de manera virtual. La presentación fue organizada por el Foro Permanente de Política Exterior (FPPE), y copatrocinada…

Policy Brief: Planning for resilience: an integrated approach to tackle climate change in the Caribbean

The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…

Caribbean in Brief: an information document for Caribbean Small Island Developing States

This brief is intended to provide general information on the upcoming United Nations Ocean Conference on scaling up ocean actions based on science and innovation for the implementation of Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14), with a view to stimulating more active, engaged participation of the Caribbean in the discussions. The United Nations Ocean Conference will be co-chaired by Kenya and Portugal, and hosted by the Government of Portugal in Lisbon, during 2021. The objective of this conference is consistent with the 2017 UN General Assembly proclamation on the Decade of Oce…

Investing for the future in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean is a large, heterogeneous region that has been open to foreign direct investment (FDI) and is home to two of the top FDI recipient economies in the world: Brazil and Mexico. The trade and investment relationship between the region and the member States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) has been concentrated on infrastructure and energy, and to a lesser extent commercial and financial services, agriculture and tourism. Both regions could exploit synergies to benefit more from bilateral …

Advancing the Decade of Action for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean

A Blue Path for the Caribbean: Ocean Sustainability for Prosperity and Resilience