Selected statistical indicators of Caribbean countries, vol. XVI, 2003

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean and Secretariat to the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), is pleased to present the seventeenth volume of the Selected Statistical Indicators of Caribbean Countries (SSI). This publication represents a compilation of original nationally produced and officially published statistics on select indicators for the year 2003. Where available, 2004 and 2005 figures have been included. The aim of the SSI is to serve as a single source of Caribbean statistics on national…

Fertility and female labour supply in Latin America: new causal evidence

Abstract We study the effect of fertility on maternal labour supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. We find that the estimates for the US can be generalized both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility is known to be higher, female education levels are much lower and there are fewer formal facilities for childcare.…

Economic profiles of Caribbean countries

Introduction With its programme of assistance to the Caribbean, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean has prepared these economic profiles for 26 independent and non-independent countries of the Caribbean subregion. These countries are: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Haiti, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the G…

Observatorio Demográfico de América Latina y el Caribe 2008: Fecundidad = Demographic Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean 2008: Fertility

This edition of the Demographic Observatory presents a series of fertility indicators estimated and projected by fiveyear periods. The indicators were formulated as input for the national population estimates and projections for the 20 countries of Latin America for the period 1950-2050.The figures in this publication constitute a revision of those presented in No. 68 of the Demographic Bulletin of July 2001.The methodological notes of this edition include a summary of the methodology used in the fertility estimates and projections, as well as a description of the data sources used for each co…

Advancing gender equality in the Caribbean: legislative approaches to sex discrimination

Introduction The 1990s was marked by a process of review of governmental policy towards the attainment of the goal of gender equality and equity. To a large extent, this review process was facilitated and strengthened by the preparation for the Fourth World Conference on Women which allowed for assessments and reviews both of the achievements and as well as the strategies for the promotion of gender equality. In this review, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean/Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (ECLAC/CDCC) secretariat convened the Third Ministeria…

Study of gender mainstreaming in the Caribbean

Background The mandate for gender mainstreaming underpins the comprehensive provisions of the Beijing Platform for Action which itself finds continuity with the concern for the development of institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women contained in the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies. Governments in the Caribbean have attempted in various ways to advance gender equity not only through substantive policy but also through administrative reform. In these attempts, governments have both made progress and confronted conceptual and operational difficulties. The United Nations mid-term r…

Women's empowerment and migration in the Caribbean

This paper presents a contextual analysis of the mutual relations between migration and women’s empowerment with the aim to facilitate the debate among stakeholders, including policymakers, practitioners and civil society in the Caribbean subregion on the role of migration as a means of empowerment for women. When contextualized in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, this debate should inform practical actions for the formulation of the Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration that will be adopted in 2018, and more broadly for sus…

Eliminating gender-based violence ensuring equality: ECLAC/UNIFEM assessment of actions

This study represents a collaborative effort by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to assess these actions with the aim of informing the future work of these agencies around gender-based violence. An important dimension of the mandate of the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean is the provision of strategic thinking and information to governments for policy formulation. This is accomplished through technical assistance and through research activitie…

Economic relations between Latin America and the Caribbean and the Republic of Korea: Advances and opportunities

This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the official visit of Geung-hye Park, President of the Republic of Korea, to several countries in the region. The Republic of Korea’s success in economic and social development offers many lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean and the developing world as a whole. From being one of the poorest countries in the world in the early 1960s, in six short decades the Republic of Korea has succeeded in transforming itself into a high-income economy, a major manufacturing, scientific and export po…

ECLAC: At Least 4,473 Women Were Victims of Femicide in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021

In 2021, at least 4,473 women were victims of femicide (also known as feminicide) in 29 countries and territories of the region, according to the latest official data that countries reported to the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean (GEO) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This represents at least 12 women per day who die violent, gender-based deaths in the region, the institution warns. “For 15 years, Latin American and Caribbean States have recognized the seriousness of femicidal violence and the gender-related killing of wome…

Relaciones económicas entre América Latina y el Caribe y la República de Corea: avances y oportunidades

El presente documento fue preparado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en ocasión de la visita oficial de Geung-hye Park, Presidenta de la República de Corea, a varios países de la región. La exitosa experiencia de la República de Corea en materia de desarrollo económico y social ofrece numerosas enseñanzas para América Latina y el Caribe y para el mundo en desarrollo en general. De ser uno de los países más pobres del mundo a comienzos de los años sesenta, la República de Corea fue capaz de transformarse en solo seis décadas en una economía de altos ingresos, en…

Breaking the statistical silence to achieve gender equality by 2030: implementing the Information Systems Pillar of the Montevideo Strategy for the implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the sustainable development framework by 2030

ECLAC Development of official statistics in the region. Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on the development of official statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

La vulnerabilidad de los hogares con jefatura femenina: preguntas y opciones de política para América Latina y el Caribe = The vulnerability of households headed by women: policy questions and options for Latin America and the Caribbean

Examina cinco preguntas de importancia para la investigación y formulación de políticas: utilidad del concepto de jefatura de hogar femenina, importancia o significación social de la tendencia a la jefatura de hogar femenina, relación entre jefatura de hogar femenina y pobreza, efectos en materia de bienestar, y dilemas y opciones de política.…

Hacia la igualdad de la mujer: avances legales desde la aprobación de la Convención sobre la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de Discriminación Contra la Mujer = Towards equality for women: progress in legislation since the adoption of the Conventio...

Resumen Los avances de la región en el área legal, para el logro del objetivo de la integración de la mujer en el desarrollo económico y social, se acentuaron notablemente en la última década y se tradujeron, principalmente, en la consagración de la igualdad a nivel constitucional, en la eliminación de normas discriminatorias, en la creación y reforzamiento de oficinas rectoras del tema a nivel nacional, provincial y municipal, en la sanción de leyes especiales sobre problemáticas específicas, y en la formulación de algunos planes nacionales de acción. Para reforzar estos logros y orientar otr…

Challenges in meeting the monitoring requirements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): an examination of selected social statistics for four Caribbean small island developing states

This document seeks to characterise the challenges faced by Caribbean countries in meeting the monitoring requirements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). An examination and analysis of infrastructural capacity and key data issues are presented. Requirements for capacity building in the field of social statistics in the subregion are also explored. Selected social indicators of the MDGs, accompanied by technical notes, definitions and relevant discussions on the indicators are detailed. The sources of data are the 1990 and 2000/2001 population census of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize an…

Mainstreaming the gender perspective in regional development: activities carried out by the Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean 2010-2013

Emigration of nurses from the Caribbean: causes and consequences for the socio-economic welfare of the country, Trinidad and Tobago: a case study

The paper will examine the migration of nurses in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States over the last 50 years, focusing on the situation in Trinidad and Tobago. It will make an attempt to assess the scope of nurse migration by drawing on data available in Trinidad and Tobago as well as in the two main destination countries, the United States and the United Kingdom. The main push factors triggering this mass exodus in the homeland and the various counteracting strategies adopted will be presented. To capture the whole picture, the different pull factors in the receiving countries …

La educación de las mujeres: de la marginalidad a la coeducación: propuestas para una metodología de cambio educativo = The education of women: from marginality to coeducation: proposals for a methodology to achieve educational change

La importancia de la educación para el desarrollo individual y colectivo ha sido puesta de relieve desde los años sesenta, en que la teoría del capital humano destacó el hecho de que la inversión educativa es la más rentable de las inversiones, en términos estrictamente económicos, y tanto para la sociedad como para los individuos. Desde entonces, el valor de la educación ha seguido en alza: para todos los grupos humanos que se encuentran en situación de marginación, la educación ha constituido el mecanismo central de cambio de su situación, el que confiere a la vez cualificación para desarrol…

Report of the twenty-ninth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean