Lanzamiento nuevo informe CEPAL-OIT Coyuntura Laboral en América Latina y el Caribe (noviembre 2020)

ECLAC and ILO Warn that the Labor Market in Latin America and the Caribbean Will Recover Slowly After the COVID-19 Pandemic

The post-COVID-19 labor market reactivation in Latin America and the Caribbean will be slow and it will take a lot of time for the world of work’s main indicators to return to the levels seen before the health crisis, and even more time to be able to meet the targets established in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ECLAC and the International Labour Organization (ILO) indicated today in a new joint publication. Edition No. 23 of the report entitled Employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Employment trends in an unprecedented crisis: policy challenges (November 2020) wa…

CEPAL y OIT advierten que mercado laboral de América Latina y el Caribe tendrá una lenta recuperación tras pandemia del COVID-19

La reactivación del mercado laboral de América Latina y el Caribe pos-COVID-19 será lenta y se necesitará mucho tiempo para que los principales indicadores del mundo del trabajo regresen a los niveles previos a la crisis sanitaria y más tiempo aún para poder cumplir con las metas establecidas en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), aseguraron hoy la CEPAL y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) en una nueva publicación conjunta. La edición N⁰ 23 del informe Coyuntura Laboral en América Latina y el Caribe. La dinámica laboral en una crisis de características inéditas: desafío…

CEPAL e OIT alertam que o mercado de trabalho na América Latina e no Caribe terá uma lenta recuperação após a pandemia da COVID-19

A retomada do mercado de trabalho da América Latina e do Caribe pós-COVID-19 será lenta e demandará muito tempo para que os principais indicadores do mundo do trabalho voltem aos níveis prévios à crise da saúde e mais tempo ainda para poder cumprir com as metas estabelecidas nos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS), afirmaram hoje a CEPAL e a Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT) em uma nova publicação conjunta. A edição N⁰ 23 do relatório: Coyuntura Laboral en América Latina y el Caribe. La dinámica laboral en una crisis de características inéditas: desafíos de política (novem…

Estrategias para abordar la evasión tributaria en América Latina y el Caribe: avances en su medición y panorama de las medidas recientes para reducir su magnitud

Partiendo de una perspectiva que entiende a la tributación como una herramienta central para viabilizar la implementación de políticas públicas en el marco de la Agenda 2030 del Desarrollo Sostenible, se afirma que la evasión tributaria ha sido y es el principal obstáculo que enfrentan las finanzas públicas en los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Paradójicamente, se han encontrado recurrentes dificultades para cuantificar la magnitud del fenómeno. Las estimaciones disponibles para la última década reflejan una gran heterogeneidad de metodologías y de resultados, aunque en todos los casos …

Economic implications of the ban on single-use plastics in the Caribbean: A case study of Trinidad and Tobago

Over the past 50 years, the global annual production of plastics has increased dramatically, from 15 million tons in 1964 to roughly 311 million tons by 2014. This spectacular growth has occurred due to its unrivalled physical properties, which allow it to be widely applied in diverse economic production processes, at low cost. One of its main appplications has been in the packaging industry where roughly 26% of the global volume of plastics is used. More importantly, as much as 95% of plastic packaging – estimated at USD 80 – 120 billion annually - is for single-use, either as packaging or as…

COVID-19 y las personas con discapacidad en América Latina: mitigar el impacto y proteger derechos para asegurar la inclusión hoy y mañana

En este informe se realiza una revisión sucinta de las respuestas al COVID-19 en la región y se analiza su alcance en relación con la protección de los derechos humanos de las personas con discapacidad. El objetivo es obtener información de utilidad para los Estados e instituciones públicas implicadas en la toma de decisiones y elaboración de estrategias para enfrentar la pandemia por el virus COVID-19 en América Latina.…

Creating an enabling environment for e-government and the protection of privacy rights in the Caribbean: A review of data protection legislation for alignment with the General Data Protection Regulation

This study examines the data protection laws of six Caribbean countries with a view to identifying gaps and weaknesses and making targeted recommendations for revision of existing legislation or adoption of new legislation in order to bring it into compliance with regional and international standards, including the GDPR. Due to its extraterritorial scope and influence, the GDPR is prompting the harmonisation of data protection legislation around the world and a number of Caribbean countries aligned with the GDPR across the subregion will not only guarantee individual privacy rights but also he…

Estimates of the cost of cash transfers under the National Policy on Social Protection and Promotion (PNPPS) in Haiti

This document presents costings for the cash transfers proposed as part of the National Policy on Social Protection and Promotion (Politique nationale de protection et de promotion sociales, PNPPS) in Haiti, adopted on 12 June 2020, which aims to sustainably roll back poverty, reduce inequalities and empower Haitian men and women. The exercise estimates the cost of 11 cash transfer mechanisms designed to address different situations (childhood, maternity, care work, old age, disability, shock situations and others) for different age groups and geographical areas, assuming a phase-in period fro…

Building a New Future: Transformative Recovery with Equality and Sustainability

This document, presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to its member States at its thirty-eighth session, argues that Latin America and the Caribbean is in a position to move towards a “big push for sustainability” through a combination of economic, industrial, social and environmental policies capable of driving a recovery with equality and sustainability and relaunching development in the region. The document has five chapters. The first studies the three crises (slow growth, growing inequality and the environmental emergency) affecting economies and …

Construir un nuevo futuro: una recuperación transformadora con igualdad y sostenibilidad

En este documento presentado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) a los Estados miembros en su trigésimo octavo período de sesiones, se sostiene que América Latina y el Caribe puede avanzar hacia un “gran impulso para la sostenibilidad” basado en una combinación de políticas económicas, industriales, sociales y ambientales que estimulen una reactivación con igualdad y sostenibilidad y relancen un nuevo proyecto de desarrollo en la región. El documento se organiza en cinco capítulos. En el primero, se estudian las tres crisis (lento crecimiento, creciente desigualda…

Building a New Future: Transformative Recovery with Equality and Sustainability. Summary

This document, presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to its member States at its thirty-eighth session, argues that Latin America and the Caribbean is in a position to move towards a “big push for sustainability” through a combination of economic, industrial, social and environmental policies capable of driving a recovery with equality and sustainability and relaunching development in the region. The document has five chapters. The first studies the three crises (slow growth, growing inequality and the environmental emergency) affecting economies and …

Construir un nuevo futuro: una recuperación transformadora con igualdad y sostenibilidad. Síntesis

En este documento presentado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) a los Estados miembros en su trigésimo octavo período de sesiones, se sostiene que América Latina y el Caribe puede avanzar hacia un “gran impulso para la sostenibilidad” basado en una combinación de políticas económicas, industriales, sociales y ambientales que estimulen una reactivación con igualdad y sostenibilidad y relancen un nuevo proyecto de desarrollo en la región. El documento se organiza en cinco capítulos. En el primero, se estudian las tres crisis (lento crecimiento, creciente desigualda…

The environmental tragedy of Latin America and the Caribbean. Offprint

This book, of which we present an preliminary offprint version in English, is the result of a collective analysis undertaken at the invitation of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as part of the discussions supporting preparations for the thirty-eighth session of the Commission. With the collaboration of Nicolo Gligo, it was possible to bring together a group of pioneers in the analysis of sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean whose thinking has been informing this field of the social and scientific disciplines since the 1970s. Their diffe…

Pactos políticos para la igualdad y el desarrollo sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe post COVID-19

Launch of ECLAC's Special Report COVID-19 No. 8: Political and social compacts for equality and sustainable development

Lanzamiento Informe Especial COVID-19 N⁰ 8: Pactos sociales para la igualdad y desarrollo sostenible

ECLAC Proposes Political and Social Compacts with Broad Participation, More Symmetry between Actors and Transformative Leaderships amid COVID-19 for a Recovery with Equality and Sustainability in the Region

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposed today the forging of far-reaching political and social compacts with broad participation in the region, so that through dialogue and transformative leadership, consensuses may be achieved to universalize social protection and health, and to reorient development on the basis of equality and environmental sustainability. “Political compacts will be needed that include expansionary, progressive, effective and efficient fiscal policies,” Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, stated during the launch of the institu…

CEPAL propone pactos políticos y sociales con amplia participación, más simetría entre actores y liderazgos transformadores frente al COVID-19 para una recuperación con igualdad y sostenibilidad en la región

La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) propuso hoy la construcción de pactos políticos y sociales de largo alcance y con amplia participación en la región, para que mediante el diálogo y liderazgos transformadores se logren consensos para universalizar la protección social y la salud, y reorientar el desarrollo sobre la base de la igualdad y la sostenibilidad ambiental. “Se requerirán pactos políticos que incluyan políticas fiscales expansivas, progresivas, eficaces y eficientes”, especificó Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, durante el lanzamiento del Inf…

ECLAC Will Launch Report that Addresses the Forging of Political and Social Compacts to Face the Post-COVID-19 Era

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 11 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT-3) its Special Report COVID-19 No. 8, entitled Political and social compacts for equality and sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-COVID-19 recovery, which poses, among other things, that the rule of law and human rights must be at the center of the recovery. The document will be presented during a web seminar by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, and will be commented upon by Beatriz Paredes Rangel, Senat…