12 Mar 2007, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Social protection was the core of the Thirty-first Session of the economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);, held in Montevideo in March 2006The discussions focused on the need for a new approach to social protection, given the structural changes the region is experiencing. It was suggested that this approach should be the result of a new rights-based social covenant, in which social rights are seen as the normative horizon, and existing inequalities and budgetary restrictions are the limiting factors to be addressed (ECLAC, 2006a);.…
1 Mayo 2000, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Second regional conference in follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development. Santiago, Chile, 15-17 May 2000 Summary The courses of action recommended at the World Summit for Social Development coincide with the general thrust of the action taken by the Governments of the region in the economic and social spheres during the 1990s. The objective of this document is to weigh the positive and negative aspects of the situation in Latin America and the Caribbean with regard to poverty reduction, productive job creation and social integration within the wider context of economic changes and s…
1 Ago 1997, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Non-agricultural rural employment accounts for an increasing proportion of total rural employment in Latin America. Its potential for stimulating rural development has been noted, but it has also been analysed as a focal point of poverty. This article considers the magnitude and composition of this employment in some of the Central American countries and examines the conditions under which non-agricultural activities may help to improve rural employment and income. It is noted that non-agricultural rural employment is heterogeneous and different types of employment arise in response to differe…
1 Ago 1997, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Within Latin America, Uruguay stands out by its equalitarian income distribution, the solidity of its democratic institutions, and its level of social integration. Over the last decade, however, there have been signs of cracks in this desirable image which adversely affect the harmony of social relations. These cracks take the form of marginal behaviour: i.e., types of behaviour which are not governed by socially accepted patterns. In this study, the explanation for these types of behaviour has been sought in the divergences between cultural goals, the structures of opportunities for attaining…
13 Feb 2019, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Discurso
57th Session of the Commission for Social Development
Panel Discussion: Interactive Dialogue with senior officials of the UN System on the priority theme “Addressing inequalities and challenges to social inclusion through fiscal, wage and social protection policies”
United Nations Headquarters, New York, 13 February 2019
Highlights of the presentation of Ms Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
The world is currently facing a series of global disruptions which pose enormous challenges to sustainable development and people’s welfar…
12 Sep 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Comunicado de prensa
Ciudad de Panamá, 12 de septiembre de 2018 – Más de 200 especialistas en desarrollo sostenible a nivel global y regional y autoridades de países de América Latina y el Caribe, entre ellos tres vicepresidentas y cerca de 40 ministros, discuten nuevas maneras de reducir las desigualdades para poder sostener las ganancias en lo social, económico y ambiental durante dos días en el X Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe (undp.org/forolac) que empezó hoy en Ciudad de Panamá.
En el Foro titulado “Alianzas para la reducción de desigualdades estructurales en el marco de lo…
HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON TRENDS, OPTIONS AND STRATEGIES IN POVERTY ERADICATION ACROSS THE WORLD
30 June 2020
Statement by Ms. Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Poverty eradication and the quest for fairer, more inclusive societies with higher levels of well-being is at the heart of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the challenges associated with the poverty eradication are structural, multifaceted and persistent. The region is the most unequal in the world in terms of the distr…
30 Oct 2010, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Columna de opinión
The premature death of former president Néstor Kirchner is a great loss not only for Argentina, but for the entire international community. Kirchner was a friend of the United Nations and a national and international leader who firmly believed in true multilateralism.
A long and distinguished career in public service, which included being intendent of his home town Río Gallegos and governor of Santa Cruz, prepared him well for the challenges he would face early into his presidency. From 2003 to 2007, he boldly tackled the effects of the deepest financial and economic crisis in Argentina's hist…
1 Nov 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Abstract This paper presents a methodology for adjusting measures of income and poverty for the risk faced by a household. The approach draws on the standard economic concept of risk aversion, and it is based on the intuition that households will prefer a steady stream of income to a variable one with the same mean. Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk-adjusted income and poverty measures. At the aggregate level, we find that taking risk into account substantially increases the poverty headcount. Moreover, a regression …
This article seeks to set forth the grounds for an approach integrating political governance, economic competitiveness and social integration as interdependent variables. To this end, it looks at the possibilities for Latin American society to simultaneously increase its capacity for democratic self-government, improve its economic competitiveness and tackle the main problems of social exclusion and poverty, since if this is not done the region will find it more difficult to take its place in the concert of modern democratic nations. In order to analyse the evolution of those variables from a …
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Noticias
El Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la extrema pobreza y los derechos humanos, Philip Alston, visitó hoy la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, donde sostuvo reuniones con diversos funcionarios del organismo regional.
Philip Alston, de nacionalidad australiana, fue recibido por el Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto, Antonio Prado, en representación de la Secretaria Ejecutiva, Alicia Bárcena, y su agenda incluyó reuniones con expertos de la CEPAL en temas de pobreza, desigualdad, educación y protección social.
La CEPAL es una de las c…
15 Nov 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Comunicado de prensa
The Government of Peru and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed their resolve to strengthen cooperation on distinct matters related to economic, social and environmental development, during an official visit lasting 24 hours that Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, made today to that country.
The senior United Nations authority led an official ECLAC mission to Lima, the first since President Pedro Castillo was sworn into office on July 28 of this year, with the aim of reaffirming the organization’s willingness to work jointly on those ar…
17 Mar 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Noticias
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, visited today the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he had meetings with various officials from the regional organization.
Alston, an Australian, was welcomed by ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, on behalf of the Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena. His agenda included meetings with ECLAC’s experts on poverty, inequality, education and social protection.
ECLAC is one of the five United Nations regional commissions…
8 Oct 2012, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Comunicado de prensa
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(5 October 2012) Today, President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he called for investment and sustainable development to be based on solid principles and to respect the well-being and environmental rights of local communities.
As part of his tour of Chile, Brazil and Argentina, the leader took part in the Seminar on "Investment for economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability" , organized by the European Union (EU), the Government of…
Next Thursday, November 23, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will unveil its flagship annual report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023: Labour inclusion as a key axis of inclusive social development, which includes the latest data available on poverty, inequality and social spending in the region. The main topic addressed this year is labor inclusion.
The document – comprising four chapters – will be presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, during a hybrid press conference (in-person and virtual) held at 1…
21 Abr 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Comunicado de prensa
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean through external and domestic factors, the combined effect of which will lead to the worst contraction that the region has ever undergone, exceeding those seen in 1914 and 1930. According to the latest estimates, an average regional contraction of -5.3% is forecast for 2020, ECLAC indicated today while launching a new report.
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, presented on this Tuesday, April 21, the COVID-19 Special Rep…
19 Abr 2013, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Comunicado de prensa
(17 December 2012) Why is Latin America and the Caribbean still the world's most unequal region, despite the fact that most of its countries are experiencing steady economic growth? The persistent inequality in the region and the apparent lack of specific policies aimed at reducing the income distribution gap are some of the issues tackled in the latest issue of the CEPAL Review, which is available online from today.
This issue (Nº 108) of the main academic publication of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) includes 10 articles on various economic and social top…
2 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Comunicado de prensa
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) calls for redoubling efforts to defeat poverty and reduce inequality in the current context of economic deceleration in the region, in its latest study entitled Inclusive social development: The next generation of policies for overcoming poverty and reducing inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This new document by the United Nations regional organization will be presented officially, and analyzed by authorities and specialists of the region, during the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and t…
1 Feb 2017, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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The 2015 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America analyses poverty trends, as measured by ECLAC. It also examines changes in income distribution and in other aspects of inequality. With a view to contributing to the development of public policies to overcome poverty and socioeconomic inequality, this edition examines the latest trends in social
spending and the challenges posed by demographic change, and provides in-depth analysis of persistent gaps in the labour market, of the challenges facing policies and programmes that foster inclusion in the labour market and production, and of social…
15 Nov 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:50
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Comunicado de prensa
El Gobierno de Perú y la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) reafirmaron hoy su voluntad de fortalecer la cooperación en distintas materias vinculadas al desarrollo económico, social y ambiental, durante una visita oficial de 24 horas realizada por Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, a ese país.
La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas encabezó una misión oficial de la CEPAL a Lima, la primera desde que el Presidente Pedro Castillo asumió su mandato el pasado 28 de julio, con el objetivo de reafirmar la disposición del organismo a trabajar de forma conjun…