La Profesora Mariana Mazzucato, Directora Fundadora del Instituto para la Innovación y el Propósito Público (IIPP) de la University College London (UCL), presentará un nuevo informe en el que aborda el cambio transformacional en América Latina y el Caribe, durante un evento paralelo al trigésimo noveno periodo de sesiones de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), que se realizará del 24 al 26 de octubre en Buenos Aires, Argentina.
El documento titulado Cambio transformacional en América Latina y el Caribe: un enfoque de política orientada por misiones, que fue encargado…
The 29th session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) concluded on 14 October in Paramaribo, Suriname. Some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the Caribbean were discussed at this meeting, inspiring a commitment to strategic action-oriented follow-up, to assure more dynamic sustainable development process.
Convened by ECLAC Caribbean, the CDCC meeting is held every two years and gathers Caribbean Prime Ministers, Ministers and distinguished government officials, with a focus on strengthening their countries’ institutional and technical capacities to impr…
Este documento presenta una revisión de las estadísticas distributivas en la República Dominicana a partir de la combinación de distintas fuentes de información: encuestas de hogares, registros tributarios y cuentas nacionales.
El trabajo es el resultado de un proceso de colaboración entre el Gobierno de la República Dominicana, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y World Inequality Lab, como parte del proyecto “Innovative approaches for examining inequality through integration of different data sources in Latin America and the Caribbean”, del decimotercer tramo de la…
En este documento se presenta una revisión de las estadísticas distributivas en la República Dominicana a partir de la combinación de distintas fuentes de información: encuestas de hogares, registros tributarios y cuentas nacionales. Es un complemento del informe técnico “Desigualdad del ingreso en la República Dominicana 2012-2019: una revisión a partir de la combinación de fuentes de datos”, y tiene el propósito de difundir a un público más amplio las principales características de la metodología, así como de presentar un resumen de los resultados obtenidos para la República Dominicana en el…
What: Twenty-ninth (29) session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee.
When: 14 October 2022 (Opening ceremony at 9 am).
Where: The Royal Torarica Hotel, Kleine Waterstraat 10, Paramaribo, Suriname.
Background Information
Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) Member Countries and Associate Members will convene for the 29th Session. Pursuant to resolution 358(XVI) of 1975, the CDCC was created as a permanent subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), to promote development cooperation among Caribbean countrie…
What: Seventh (7th) meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable.
When: 12 to 13 October 2022 (Opening ceremony at 8 am).
Where: The Royal Torarica Hotel, Kleine Waterstraat 10, Paramaribo, Suriname.
Background Information
The Caribbean Development Roundtable brings together regional and international development thinkers and practitioners, leaders and senior policymakers from ECLAC member States and associate member countries, representatives of the UN System, regional and international financial institutions, academia, and civil society, including the private sector, as well as o…
In recent years, a number of proposals have highlighted how restrictive it is to use gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of well-being. This document takes up those criticisms and also showcases the limitations of GDP as a measure of output.
What GDP measures and what it excludes is a product of conventions that reflect androcentric biases. The failure to appraise natural resources and non-remunerated services produced by households results in a skewed perspective on the economy that focuses on markets and neglects other processes that are essential to human life.
The Latin American and …
Many international development agendas highlight the importance of quality data for sustainable development. With the advent of the data revolution for sustainable development, stakeholders have underscored the value of timely, usable data in informing decision-making and for monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes, be it in relation to national development planning or as regards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other international development agendas. Crucially, the COVID-19 pandemic, more than anything else in recent times, has demonstrated the value of tim…
Changes of base or reference year in countries’ systems of national accounts are a normal part of statistical work. They are an opportunity to incorporate into measurements, for the base year and those that follow or precede it, all the progress in concepts, methodologies and information sources that has occurred since the last estimate of gross domestic product (GDP). The System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) recommends that this type of updating be carried out at least every five years to reflect the current behaviour of the different economic sectors, thereby providing better tools fo…
Los cambios de año base / de referencia en el sistema de cuentas nacionales de los países son un proceso habitual en el quehacer estadístico. Son ocasiones que permiten incorporar en la medición, para el año base y los que lo suceden anteceden, todos los progresos conceptuales, metodológicos y de fuentes de información que han ocurrido desde la última estimación del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB). El Sistema de Cuentas Nacionales (SCN 2008) recomienda que este tipo de actualización se realice mínimo cada 5 años de forma tal que refleje el comportamiento actualizado de los diferentes sectores eco…
Household surveys are widely used as a tool for obtaining information on people's socio-economic status and well-being. However, the accuracy of household survey estimates decreases significantly when it comes to making inferences for population groups who represent disaggregations for which the survey was not designed. It is possible, in this context, to use estimation processes that combine information from household surveys with existing auxiliary information at population level, such as censuses or administrative records. This paper offers a methodological guide to the combination of …
The nominal series of commodity exports and total exports, which form part of the recent update of information in CEPALSTAT and are available for consultation, show the pressures on natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean.…
Las series nominales de exportaciones de productos primarios y exportaciones totales, que forman parte de la reciente actualización de información en CEPALSTAT y disponible para su consulta, permiten identificar las presiones a los recursos naturales en América Latina y el Caribe.…
The global community claims to be committed to finding a solution to arresting rising global temperatures limiting global warming to well below 2 °C, preferably 1.5 °C (UNFCCC, 2022), to ensure that all life, livelihoods and the overall health and welfare of ecosystems animals and humans are secured (IPCC 2018). The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports paint a picture that shows increased intensity and frequency of climatic conditions and extreme events as emerging trends (IPCC 2018). Global warming beyond 1.5 °C will be devastating; in fact, projections show at 2 °C warming ma…
Representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries’ national statistics offices reaffirmed the importance of generating more and better data for decision-making and thereby giving visibility to the various problems that exist in the region, during the closing session of the twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, which concluded today at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The event drew the participation of delegations from 28 of ECLAC’s Member States a…
Representantes de las oficinas nacionales de estadística de los países de América Latina y el Caribe reafirmaron hoy la importancia de generar más y mejores datos para la toma de decisiones y así hacer visibles las distintas problemáticas que existen en la región, durante la clausura de la vigesimoprimera reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas (CEA), que culminó hoy en la sede central de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile.
En el encuentro participaron delegaciones de 28 Estados miembros de la CEPAL y de 4 miembro…
Representatives of national statistics institutes from Latin America and the Caribbean called today for deepening statistical cooperation at a regional and international level to meet the growing demand for timely and quality data and information for a sustainable and egalitarian recovery, during the inauguration of the twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Participating in this intergovernmental gathering – which is taking place through Thursday, August 25 at E…
Representantes de los institutos nacionales de estadística de América Latina y el Caribe llamaron hoy a profundizar la cooperación estadística a nivel regional e internacional para atender la creciente demanda de datos e información oportuna y de calidad para una recuperación sostenible e igualitaria, durante la inauguración de la vigesimoprimera reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas (CEA) de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
En el encuentro intergubernamental, que se celebra hasta el jueves 25 en la sede central de la CEPAL en …
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