Ya se encuentra disponible desde hoy en internet una nueva edición de Revista CEPAL, principal publicación académica de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), con estudios de especialistas sobre el impacto de los desastres naturales en las economías de la región, la evolución de la pobreza en Nicaragua y la innovación y productividad en las empresas de Perú, entre otros temas.
El ejemplar de abril de 2017 de la Revista CEPAL (N⁰ 121) incluye investigaciones de destacados economistas, sociólogos, politólogos y académicos de América Latina y otras regiones, vinculados a r…
The aim of this study is to estimate the impact of geological and climate-related disasters on the per capita growth rates of gross domestic product (GDP) and fiscal expenditure in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The results show that the effects vary by type of disaster and by subregion. In the Caribbean countries, the per capita GDP growth rate has typically responded negatively to climate disasters, whereas the response to a geological disaster has generally not been statistically significant. In Central American countries, the response of the per capita GDP growth rate was found to…
El objetivo de este trabajo es estimar el impacto de los desastres climáticos y geológicos en la tasa de crecimiento del producto interno bruto (PIB) per cápita y la tasa de crecimiento del gasto fiscal per cápita de los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Los resultados indican que hay efectos diferenciados por tipo de desastre y por subregiones. En los países del Caribe, la respuesta típica de la tasa de crecimiento del PIB per cápita a los desastres climáticos fue negativa. Por su parte, la respuesta a un desastre de origen geológico no fue estadísticamente significativa. En los países de…
C’est dans le cadre d’un accord de collaboration (2015) entre l’Institut Mora et le Siège Sous- Régional au Mexique de la CEPALC, qu’est conduit le projet de recherche A cinq ans du tremblement de terre en Haïti : leçons apprises de la coopération sud-sud. Les cas du Brésil, du Chili et du Mexique. Ce projet vise à identifier et à analyser certaines pratiques de coopération sud-sud qui ont été menées durant 2010-2015 et ont eu des résultats et impacts positifs en Haïti. Il est de spécial intérêt en particulier de connaitre les facteurs qui ont rendu possible ces résultats positifs afin d’ident…
An on-line survey of experts was conducted to solicit their views on policy priorities in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Caribbean. The experts considered the goal
to “promote teacher training in the use of ICTs in the classroom” to be the highest priority, followed by goals to “reduce the cost of broadband services” and “promote the use of ICT in emergency and
disaster prevention, preparedness and response.” Goals in the areas of cybercrime, e-commerce, egovernment, universal service funds, consumer
protection, and on-line privacy rounded out the top 10.
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This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development.
The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…
“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) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, is strengthening the capacity of specialists and officials of Latin American and Caribbean countries to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters, with activities in Peru, Costa Rica and Saint Vicent and The Granadines.
In the case of Peru, the training session in Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) was conducted in Cusco from 16 to 19 June at the request of the National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction. This course served as the first …
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