This FAL Bulletin discusses the concepts that are considered central to infrastructure resilience, and identifies the main challenges in making infrastructure more resilient and thus advance development in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. To this end, it proposes an integrated approach not only for constructing new infrastructure but also for enhancing the resilience of infrastructure services and users.…
In the last few months, the world has witnessed and continue to witness a drastic change in our daily lives, which has also caused great impacts on business, trade, and shipping. The outbreak of a pandemic changed all economic and trade expectations for 2020. From a forecast of 3.6% growth in container trade worldwide in the last quarter of 2019, to 2.5% in January 2020, new projections have lowered down expectations to -4.9%. This drop is partially explained, apart from the pandemic, by the continuing increase of blank sails[1] and labour restrictions.
Several countries have been implementing…
In the last few months, the world has witnessed and continue to witness a drastic change in our daily lives, which has also caused great impacts on business, trade, and shipping. The outbreak of a pandemic changed all economic and trade expectations for 2020. From a forecast of 3.6% growth in container trade worldwide in the last quarter of 2019, to 2.5% in January 2020, new projections have lowered down expectations to -4.9%. This drop is partially explained, apart from the pandemic, by the continuing increase of blank sails[1] and labour restrictions.
Several countries have been implementing…
The observatory is a joint effort of the Regional Commissions of the United Nations, to gather all the updated information on the limitations of the border crossing both in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the rest of the world due to the outbreak of COVID-19.…
El observatorio es un esfuerzo conjunto de las Comisiones Regionales de las Naciones Unidas, para reunir toda la información actualizada sobre las limitaciones del cruce fronterizo tanto en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, como en el resto del mundo debido al brote de COVID-19.…
En esta edición del Boletín FAL se presentan conceptos que se consideran centrales relacionados con la resiliencia de la infraestructura, así como los principales desafíos para promover la infraestructura resiliente a fin de avanzar hacia el desarrollo de los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Para ello, se plantea la adopción de un abordaje integrado, no solo para la construcción de nueva infraestructura sino también para la resiliencia de los servicios y los usuarios de infraestructura.…
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