The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has joined global efforts to promote the integration of geospatial and statistical information, and understands their value in supporting areas such as decision-making, public policies, national development strategies and the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This article aims to provide an overview of the process, including the lines of action and activities that are being pursued at the global level and the measures to put the global proposals into practice…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) se ha unido a los esfuerzos globales para promover la integración entre la información geoespacial y estadística, entendiendo el valor que ésta tiene para dar soporte a la toma de decisiones, las políticas públicas, las estrategias nacionales de desarrollo y el monitoreo de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, entre los más relevantes.
Este artículo tiene como propósito entregar una mirada general del proceso, haciendo referencia a los lineamientos y actividades que se encuent…
The International Comparison Programme (ICP) is one of the world’s largest statistical initiatives. A total of 176 economies, 36 of which are from Latin America and the Caribbean, participated in the 2017 comparison. The World Bank, through the ICP Global Office, ECLAC, in its capacity as regional implementing agency, and the national statistical offices of the participating economies worked together to conduct this cycle.
This document presents the methodology used and the results pertaining to the PPP-based gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure components, as well as to the price …
El Programa de Comparación Internacional (PCI) es la iniciativa mundial que involucra al mayor número de economías; en la ronda 2017 participaron 176 economías de todo el mundo, 36 de las cuales pertenecen a la región de América Latina y el Caribe. El Banco Mundial, a través de su Oficina Mundial del IPC; la CEPAL, en calidad de coordinadora regional, y las oficinas nacionales de estadística de las economías participantes de América Latina y el Caribe colaboraron de manera conjunta en la consecución de esta ronda.
En este documento se presentan aspectos metodológicos y resultados, desglosados …
The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to its geographical location and concentration of population and activities in low-lying coastal areas, the Caribbean is the second most hazard-prone region in the world...Moreover, impacts of extreme weather events on Caribbean small economies are of national proportions. For example, in the hurricane s…
The Generic Law on Official Statistics for Latin America was adopted by the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean at its tenth meeting. Its purpose is to provide a regional model for Latin American countries that are interested in formulating or reformulating the legal basis for the functioning of their National Statistical Systems (NSS) and the production of official statistics.
The Generic Law defines the rights and obligations of the bodies that compose the National Statistical System as well the principles and procedures to be…
La Ley Genérica sobre Estadísticas Oficiales para América Latina fue aprobada en la Décima Reunión de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe. El propósito de la Ley genérica es proporcionar un modelo regional para los países de América Latina que estén interesados en elaborar o reformular la base jurídica para el funcionamiento de sus respectivos Sistemas Estadísticos Nacionales (SEN) y la producción de estadísticas oficiales.
La Ley genérica define los derechos y obligaciones de los órganos que componen el Sistema Estadístico Nacion…
Representatives of more than 200 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in various countries, government authorities and officials from international bodies agreed today at ECLAC that the active participation of civil society is indispensable for adopting decisions, planning and applying the policies that foster compliance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
At this gathering of civil society – prior to the second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which will be held on April 18-20…
Representantes de más de 200 organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) de varios países, autoridades de gobierno y funcionarios de organismos internacionales, coincidieron hoy en la CEPAL en que la activa participación de la sociedad civil es indispensable para la adopción de decisiones, la planificación y la aplicación de políticas que fomenten el cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe.
En el encuentro de la sociedad civil, previo a la segunda reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se r…
The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicator Framework is endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission as the monitoring mechanism for the 169 targets and more than 230 indicators of the SDGs. Reporting of these indicators will pose a formidable challenge to the Caribbean given the statistical capacity of countries of the subregion. The results of an ECLAC survey show that only three of the eleven countries that participated reported having the capacity to produce at least 50 per cent of the indicators. The capacities of National Statistical Offices will need to be signif…
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 much advocacy in the Caribbean regarding the need for evidence-based policy making, that is – policy making that is based on timely and reliable data regarding a particular economic and/or social problem, to promote good governance and facilitate enhanced policy and programme outcomes. However, the reality remains an elusive one for many Caribbean policy makers, who implement policies based on ideas, as well as ad hoc or outdated data.
Outside of the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America are countries where polic…
En los últimos años un número importante de países de la región ha concluido las negociaciones para la suscripción de acuerdos de asociación o comerciales con la Unión Europea. El acuerdo de asociación económica entre ésta y el CARIFORUM, firmado en octubre de 2008, se encuentra en aplicación provisoria desde diciembre del mismo año. Asimismo, durante 2011 fueron inicialados los textos del futuro acuerdo de asociación entre la Unión Europea y Centroamérica (incluyendo a Panamá) y del futuro acuerdo de libre comercio entre aquella y Colombia y Perú. Ambos acuerdos se firmarían durante el segund…
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