Revista de la CEPAL no.73

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…

XVII Reunión del Comité de Monitoreo del Comité de Desarrollo y Cooperación del Caribe

Seminario "Cohesión social en Europa y América Latina''

Las brechas socioeconómicas, democracias frágiles y la falta de sentido de pertenencia de la gente con su barrio, la política o el trabajo, son factores que dificultan la cohesión social en América Latina y el Caribe. Tal fue el tema debatido el 17 de abril en el seminario “Cohesión social en Europa y América Latina ”, organizado por la CEPAL, la Cooperación Técnica Alemana (GTZ) y la Fundación Konrad-Adenauer en Chile.…

Implementation of the 2014-2015 programme of work: subprogramme 13: subregional activities in the Caribbean

Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2025 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…