Preface This study was prepared for the Government of Jamaica following the significant physical damage and economic losses that the country sustained as a result of flood rains associated with the development of Hurricane Michelle. The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) submitted a request for assistance in undertaking a social, environmental and economic impact assessment to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 14 November 2001. ECLAC responded with haste and modified its work plan to accommodate the request. A request for training in the use of th…
Antecedentes La magnitud de los daños ocasionados por las lluvias que desde el mes de noviembre de 1999 azotaron a Venezuela en las zonas costeras e importantes centros urbanos de Venezuela, en particular los estados Vargas, Miranda y Falcón aún no han sido totalmente comprendidos en su impacto global y en sus implicaciones de corto, mediano y largo plazo. El 16 de diciembre de 1999 la Asamblea Constituyente de Venezuela declaró el Estado de Emergencia para el Distrito Federal de Caracas y otros ocho de los estados del país. El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores inició campañas de reco…
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Evento (Monitoring 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)…