In 2024, it is expected that the GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean will maintain the dynamic of low growth.…
Para 2024, se espera que el PIB en América Latina y el Caribe crezca 1,9%, con lo que se mantendrá la dinámica de bajo crecimiento.…
Child, early and forced marriages and unions are defined as a union in which at least one of the parties is under the age of 18. The overwhelming majority of formal and informal child marriages and unions involve girls, although in some cases their male spouses are also under 18. As stated in the Joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful practices, and Human Rights Council resolution 29/8 of 2 July 2015, on strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate ch…
Los matrimonios y uniones infantiles tempranos y forzados se definen como una unión en la que al menos uno de los contrayentes es menor de 18 años. La inmensa mayoría de los matrimonios y las uniones infantiles, tanto de derecho como de hecho, afectan a las niñas, aunque a veces sus cónyuges también son menores de 18 años. Tal como lo señala la Recomendación general núm. 31 del Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer y la observación general núm. 18 del Comité de los Derechos del Niño sobre las prácticas nocivas, adoptadas de manera conjunta en 2014, y la Resolución 29/…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is participating in the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), a crucial milestone in the fight against the climate and ecological crisis, which is taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 30 November to 12 December. The ECLAC delegation is headed by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the regional body, who will participate in various sessions of the global forum. You can learn more about ECLAC's participation in COP28 in the followi…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) participa en la 28ª Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP28), hito crucial en la lucha contra la crisis climática y ecológica, que se lleva a cabo en la Ciudad de Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, del 30 de noviembre al 12 de diciembre. La delegación de la CEPAL está encabezada por José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo regional, quien participará en diversas sesiones del foro global. Puedes conocer más sobre la participación de CEPAL en la COP…
El valor de las exportaciones de bienes de América Latina y el Caribe caerá 2% en 2023, en un contexto de gran debilidad del comercio mundial, indicó la CEPAL al presentar un nuevo informe anual sobre el comportamiento del comercio exterior de la región. El informe Perspectivas del Comercio Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe, 2023. Cambios estructurales y tendencias en el comercio mundial y regional: retos y oportunidades, fue dado a conocer el jueves 2 de noviembre de 2023 en una conferencia de prensa encabezada por el Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo de las Naciones Unidas, José M…
Conoce todas las sesiones en las que la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) impulsará durante la Semana del Clima de América Latina y el Caribe 2023 (LACCW 2023), evento crucial que se llevará a cabo en la Ciudad de Panamá del 23 al 27 de octubre de 2023.…
Coberturas y usos de la tierra en el Territorio Santa Cruz-Carrillo (región Chorotega) de Costa Rica…
Coberturas y usos de la tierra en la región Brunca…
Guatemala and Honduras are among the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the highest levels of poverty, with the lowest proportion of the population dependent on clean fuels and technologies, and the highest use of firewood. Available estimates and statistics show that a large part of the population, particularly in rural areas, uses firewood as the main cooking fuel. Although there is progress in terms of electricity coverage, there is an nderconsumption of electricity, since the most used energy source at the residential level is firewood.…
Understanding demographic change in Central America, Mexico and the Hispanic Caribbean, with emphasis on aging, is fundamental for social protection systems. The importance of addressing social protection gaps lies in their manifestation in terms of insufficient coverage, inadequate benefits or lack of accessibility, which prevents progress towards universal protection for all.…
Between 1990 and 2019, the Dominican Republic showed progress in the fight against poverty and inequality. However, its current levels are high when compared to countries of similar development in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the world. As a result, there are still important structural gaps, defined as the different expressions of inequality, which are wide and persistent, in different areas and among different groups of people, and this hinders development.…
Aanalysis of socioeconomic inequality that involves studying the distances in access to income between the various social strata based on household income in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, but adjusting income to the National Accounts in each country.…
Based on this conceptual framework, gaps corresponding to inequalities are identified, either between countries (horizontal) or between social groups or areas in each country (vertical), based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.…
Despite efforts, large gaps in access to the effective enjoyment of the right to education persist in Guatemala, particularly for rural populations and Indigenous peoples. The unprecedented educational crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased gaps, school dropout rates, learning losses, illiteracy and the slowdown in average schooling levels…
This paper focuses on an analysis of sustainability gaps in the tourism clusters of Puerto Plata and Colonial City in the Dominican Republic, based on the idea that tourism is an economic sector with great potential to contribute to the development of a territory, provided that it is based on sustainability…
Between 1990 and 2020, Guatemala achieved progress in the fight against poverty and inequality; however, there are still important structural, wide and persistent gaps in various social, economic and territorial areas. In addition, the recent pandemic generated by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) and its variants caused one of the deepest economic declines in the past 100 years, generating greater poverty and inequality.…
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