At least eight critical obstacles – including the persistence of poverty, structural inequalities, the deficit of decent work and social protection, insufficient social investment, diverse forms of violence, and disasters and climate change – are keeping the region from achieving inclusive social development, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) sustains in a new study.
The document Critical obstacles to inclusive social development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Background for a regional agenda will be officially unveiled by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Ali…
Social development ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean met today in the Dominican Republic to acknowledge the importance of safeguarding social investment and advancing towards universal protection systems to avoid setbacks in the fight against poverty, given the current economic situation, and to make progress to close the inequality gaps identified by ECLAC in a new document.
This was highlighted during the first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Ca…
Brazil’s government and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed their willingness to cooperate on various matters related to social and economic development during a series of meetings held on March 4-5 between a high-level delegation from the regional United Nations organization and Brazilian ministers and other authorities.
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, headed the official mission to Brazil, the first since President Dilma Rousseff began her second term on January 1, with the aim of reinforcing the organization’s disposition to work joint…
(January 30, 2015) Costa Rica’s Government and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) agreed today to strengthen mutual cooperation to boost the Central American country’s development, during a bilateral meeting held in San José by the President of the Republic, Luis Guillermo Solís, and the Executive Secretary of the regional United Nations organization, Alicia Bárcena.
The officials shared their visions on the development of the country and of Latin America and the Caribbean in general while also discussing the recent Summit of the Community of Latin American and…
It is urgently necessary to move towards a Pact for inclusive social development in the world, not only as a moral imperative but also to ensure economic progress and the stability of societies, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) asserted on the first day of the Fifth Regional Seminar on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, where participants include government authorities, globally renowned specialists, senior officials from the United Nations system and representatives of civil society.
The three-day gathering was inaugurated by Jo…
A call for articulating policies for growth, productive development and the labor market with social policies, and for strengthening the social institutional framework and governance of decision-making in a framework of regional cooperation with a view to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was made today by government authorities and international officials at the inauguration of the Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The event – organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the…
For over three decades, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has performed measurements of poverty in the Latin American countries in order to estimate its prevalence in the region using a common methodology. Economic and social changes have prompted an update of the thresholds used to quantify poverty and a review of certain aspects of the methodology.
Now that all the countries of the region have progressed towards having official poverty measurements calculated by their own public agencies, the figures produced by ECLAC aim to provide a regional overview that …
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…
Political will and changes to the productive structure and tax system are essential for fighting inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, senior officials from the United Nations and representatives from Governments, academia and civil society coincided during a debate held on Monday, March 2 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
María Fernanda Villegas, Chile’s Minister of Social Development; Jorge Coronado Marroquín, representative of the Tax Justice Network for Latin America and the Caribbean; and Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, a professor…
The future availability of a new Household Spending and Income Survey for Uruguay will enable the assessment of a new official measurement of income poverty in the country. In light of this process, ECLAC’s office in Montevideo edited a new publication that explores the different options for its construction.
The document, Measurement of Monetary Poverty in Uruguay: Concepts, Methodologies, Evaluation and Alternatives (No. 37 in the Studies and Perspectives Series by ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo, in Spanish only), reviews the available methodological options and the influence that some of thes…
The 2013 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America presents ECLAC official measurements for the analysis of income poverty and seeks fresh approaches to poverty and well-being, placing special emphasis on multidimensional approaches. These approaches are exploratory and therefore not comprehensive. They have nevertheless been tackled in this year’s edition of Social Panorama because one thing is certain: the need is emerging in social policy design, in the evaluation of social development and in new demands of society for a more nuanced analysis of social progress and lags to underpin more i…
Countries are increasingly interested in having an official multidimensional poverty index (MPI). This is the expression of a growing consensus regarding the limitations of income poverty measures as standalone indicator. This paper analyses the challenges in designing such indices. Specifically, it addresses the selection of the unit of identification, the selection of dimensions and indicators, including the issue of missing values and the debate on whether to include an indicator of monetary deprivation or not, the weighting structure and the poverty cutoff. In general, for all the reviewed…
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…
Panama City, September 12, 2018 - More than 200 global and regional experts in sustainable development and top government officials from Latin American and Caribbean, including three vice-presidents and around 40 ministers, kicked off the two-day 10th Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (undp.org/forolac) today to discuss new ways to reduce inequalities and boost gains in the social, economic and environmental fronts.
At the Forum "Partnerships for the reduction of structural inequalities within Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework" top officials are…
16 Mar 2022, 07:00 - 09:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
National experiences on the continuity of the production of official statistics based on household surveys during the pandemic and its impact on data quality.…
(10 October 2012) Today, the Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado, met with the Chilean Minister for Social Development, Joaquín Lavín, to discuss the participation of the United Nations agency in the country's National Socioeconomic Survey (CASEN).
At the meeting, which was held at the ECLAC headquarters in the Chilean capital, the senior international official informed Minister Lavín of the Commission's official position on this survey managed by the Ministry for Social Development (MDS).
Following a process of institutional assessment, ECLAC informed the Ministry of its …
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…
Ciudad de Panamá, 13 de septiembre de 2018 – Dos vicepresidentas y cerca de 40 ministros de América Latina y el Caribe se comprometieron a tomar medidas concretas para reducir las desigualdades estructurales que continúan impidiendo que muchos participen en las sociedades de manera significativa. Las autoridades de 20 países acordaron la ¨Declaración de Panamá” al cerrar el X Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe (undp.org/forolac) Alianzas para la reducción de desigualdades estructurales en el marco de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), 12-13 de septiemb…
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…
In July, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch a training program in quantitative analysis techniques for officials from Argentina’s public administration.
The program consists of four independent courses of a theoretical-practical nature, 20 hours each, which will be implemented as workshops with emphasis on the application of concepts and techniques presented using software that is suited to each specific one.
The first course will take place on July 26-29 and will be given by Alejandra Silva, of ECLAC’s Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Cente…