Audiencia pública de la Comisión de Comercio Internacional del Parlamento Europeo sobre repercusiones del Acuerdo de Asociación Centroamérica - Unión Europea (AACUE)

Socio-economic vulnerability to natural disasters in Mexico: rural poor, trade and public response

The increasing frequency and economic losses from natural disasters within the framework of decreasing agricultural prices is becoming crucial in increasing poverty in the Mexican rural economy. During the past two decades, the governmental withdrawal from supporting the agricultural sector with investments in physical, financial and logistic instruments continues to stress agricultural livelihoods, as current private mechanisms have not replaced them effectively. Natural disasters occurrence is increasingly producing severe damages to the so-called traditional agriculture, highly exposed to c…

Freeing the Americas of Poverty and Hunger

Le cyclonne Jeanne en Haïti: degats et effets sur les departements du Nord-Ouest et de l'Artibonite: approfondissement de la vulnerabilité

La Commission Economique pour l'Amérique Latine et les Caraïbes (CEPALC), avec l'appui de la Banque Interaméricaine de Développement (BID) et du système des Nations Unies en Haïti a réalisé une évaluation des dégâts causés par le cyclone Jeanne en Haïti dans les Départements du Nord-Ouest et de l'artibonite, et plus particulièrement dans les bassins riverains menant à la ville de Gonaïves. Cette étude, qui a été sollicitée à la CEPALC par le Ministère de l'intérieur, des Collectivités Territoriales et de la Sécurité Nationale (MICTSN), a pour but d'obtenir des él…

The Development of the Caribbean Yachting Sector

The sustainability of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities

Summary The original aim of this study was to serve as an input for the Regional Preparatory Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 23 and 24 October 2001. This document was produced by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In preparing the study, national preparatory activities and inputs from subregional meetings were taken int…

La sostenibilidad del desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe: desafíos y oportunidades

Documento elaborado en el marco de la Conferencia Regional de América Latina y el Caribe preparatoria de la Cumbre Mundial sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible (Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, 2002), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 23 y 24 de octubre de 2001…

CDCC - Twenty-Five Years of Cooperation and Development: 1975-2000

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