Evento virtual realizado el 16 de diciembre de 2020 en el marco del Ciclo Anual de Webinars sobre Ciencia Abierta…
The U.S. economy expanded at a 33.1% annual rate in the third quarter; market projections suggest a decline of about 4% in 2020. The pandemic has created unprecedented volatility in economic growth this year, with the record-shattering decline in real GDP in the second quarter followed by a similarly record-breaking gain in the third. The U.S. economic expansion in the third quarter of 2020 followed a decrease of 31.4% in the second quarter and 5% in the first, with the third-quarter gain reversing about 75% of the prior decline. Economic forecasts project a slowdown in the final qu…
Todas las tablas estándares de MATERNILAC correspondientes a Colombia 2018 ya están disponibles en la mencionada base de datos incluida en los indicadores demográficos de CEPALSTAT.…
This FAL Bulletin forms part of the Reflections on Disruptive Technologies in Transport that often appear in Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) publications. On this occasion, it examines the importance of cybersecurity from a logistical standpoint, especially in the current context of a pandemic.…
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the effects of the measures taken by governments to control its rapid spread have affected most of the world’s population. The United Nations, governments and different civil society organizations, the academic and scientific world and other development actors have warned of the differentiated consequences of the pandemic, which has widened existing gaps between men and women in a number of dimensions. They have accordingly advocated the incorporation of a gender equality perspective into policies, measures and programmes aimed at mitigating and …
Oceans are a vast source of solutions and opportunities which, unfortunately, are currently invisible, at risk or underutilized. For Latin America and the Caribbean, this reality is significant —more than 27% of the region’s population lives in coastal areas; the sea accounts for a larger share of territory than land for most countries, especially in the Caribbean; and the oceans are home to extraordinary biodiversity. Still, we are not yet on a path to achieving the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 14 relating to life below water. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carib…
The Latin America and the Caribbean region will experience a contraction of -7.7% in 2020 but will have a positive growth rate of 3.7% in 2021, due mainly to a statistical rebound that will nonetheless be insufficient for recovering the economic activity levels seen prior to the coronavirus pandemic (in 2019), ECLAC indicated today in a new report. ECLAC released its Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 – one of the United Nations organization’s flagship annual reports – during a virtual press conference given by its Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena.…
La región de América Latina y el Caribe marcará una contracción de -7,7% en 2020, pero tendrá una tasa de crecimiento positiva de 3,7% en 2021, debido principalmente a un rebote estadístico que, sin embargo, no alcanzará para recuperar los niveles de actividad económica pre-pandemia del coronavirus (en 2019), indicó hoy la CEPAL en un nuevo informe. La CEPAL dio a conocer su Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe 2020, uno de los principales reportes anuales del organismo de las Naciones Unidas, en una conferencia de prensa virtual ofrecida por su Secretaria Ejecutiv…
A região da América Latina e Caribe terá uma contração de -7,7% em 2020, mas terá uma taxa de crescimento positiva de 3,7% em 2021, devido principalmente a um arraste estatístico que, no entanto, não será suficiente para recuperar os níveis de atividade econômica pré-pandemia do coronavírus (em 2019), indicou hoje a CEPAL em um novo relatório. A CEPAL divulgou seu Balanço Preliminar das Economias da América Latina e do Caribe 2020, um dos principais relatórios anuais da Comissão das Nações Unidas, em uma coletiva de imprensa virtual apresentada por sua Secretária-Executiva, Alicia Bárcena. Se…
Since April, tourism in the region has almost come to a temporary standstill as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This temporary paralysis has not only hit Caribbean economies and employment hard, but also many local communities in Latin America. Tourism accounts for half of services exports in Latin America and the Caribbean and represents significant shares of gross domestic product (GDP) and employment. An impact scenario shows that the slump in tourism may cause total GDP growth in the Caribbean and Latin America to fall by 8 percentage points and 1 percentage point,…
Los resultados de la consulta fueron presentados por el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente de Chile, el Compromiso Empresarial para el Reciclaje (CEMPRE Chile) y la CEPAL, organismos que destacaron la importancia de la economía circular como un sector impulsor de cambios transformadores con equidad y sostenibilidad…
In the time of COVID-19, children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean have been and continue to be exposed to greater risk of becoming victims of violence in the home, while they also enjoy fewer protection factors, according to a document published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children. The document entitled Violence against children and adolescents in the time of COVID-19 warns that recent estimates poi…
En tiempos de COVID-19, las niñas, niños y adolescentes en América Latina y el Caribe han estado y están expuestos a un mayor riesgo de ser víctimas de violencia en el hogar, a la vez que cuentan con menos factores de protección, advierte un documento publicado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF) y la Oficina de la Representante Especial del Secretario General sobre Violencia contra la Niñez. El documento Violencia contra niños, niñas y adolescentes en tiempos de COVID-19 alerta que estimaciones recientes…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, llamó hoy a la construcción de un nuevo pacto social que garantice la universalización de los derechos, durante una mesa redonda complementaria a la reunión informal de ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe, organizada por el Gobierno de Alemania. El evento Preservando la cohesión social durante la crisis del COVID-19: una agenda para la cooperación EU-LAC fue inaugurado por Miguel Berger, Secretario de Estado del Ministerio de Asuntos Exterio…
En las últimas décadas se han evidenciado importantes avances en la participación de mujeres en diferentes niveles del sistema científico a nivel mundial. El más significativo de ellos es el crecimiento de las matrículas de educación terciaria. En la década de 1970 las mujeres eran minoría en las matrículas de educación terciaria a nivel mundial, diez años después las tasas de matriculación de mujeres alcanzan y superan la de los hombres en América del Norte y Europa Occidental, veinte años después, en los noventa, lo hacen en América Latina y el Caribe y actualmente en algunos países de Asia …
Esta coedición reporta el trabajo realizado por el equipo técnico de CEPAL con el GTCCGIR de CAC/SICA y el apoyo técnico de CCAFS/CIAT y científicos de la región. Está enfocada en generar datos útiles en función de los escenarios del IPCC AR5. Su objetivo es divulgar información e identificar próximos pasos para su aplicación en iniciativas como el desarrollo de instrumentos de implementación de políticas públicas de cambio climático, el diseño de proyectos agropecuarios, de seguros agropecuarios, de sistemas nacionales de inversión pública (SNIP) y fortalecimiento de capacidades de funcionari…
The U.S. economy expanded at a 33.1% annual rate in the third quarter of 2020, following a decline of 31.4% in the second quarter and 5% in the first. The third-quarter gain reversed about 75% of the prior decline. The pandemic has created unprecedented volatility in economic growth this year, with the record-shattering decline in real GDP in the second quarter followed by a similarly record-breaking gain in the third. Economic forecasts project a slowdown in the final quarter of the year, however, because of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and some tighter restrictions that have been imple…