The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator designed to track the development of countries in respect of three dimensions of development: health, education and income. Since it was first published in 1990, great efforts have been made to improve hdi, which, as has been stressed on numerous occasions, cannot be seen as a definitive measure of development. This paper includes a reflection on what constitutes human development, the pillars underpinning it and two new dimensions that should be incorporated into hdi (employment and political freedoms) for it to better express progress in deve…
This study draws on household survey results spanning a period of three decades in length to analyse young people's entry into the labour market in 10 Latin American countries. It finds that: (i) the employment status of young people had deteriorated over time until seeing an improvement in the late 2000s, although youth unemployment and informality rates are still very high; (ii) young people are entering into a typical employment cycle in which they are surpassing the results obtained by adults of earlier generations. Informality is not a part of this pattern, however, indicating the ex…
Evidence suggests that labour markets do not clear as posited by conventional microeconomics. The enduring inter-industry wage differentials (IIWD) and employer-size wage differentials (ESWD) present a challenge. Data from the Jamaican private sector reveal that eswd could be the impetus for IIWD. After accounting for labour quality and other characteristics, employers with 10 to 49 employees and 50 or more employees pay estimated premiums of 14.3% and 22.9%, respectively. After estimating the differences in tenure profiles, the premium associated with the largest employer size was reduced to …
Despite its importance, the literature on wage differentials between public- and private-sectors employees in Latin America is sparse. This article analyses the wage gap between the two sectors in Chile, based on monthly longitudinal data obtained from the Social Protection Survey (EPS) for the period 2002-2009. The study takes advantage of the panel structure of the data to control for time-invariant observable and unobservable factors that determine the self-selection of workers between sectors and wages. The results show that the wage differential between workers in the public and private s…
This study uses the capability approach to undertake a multidimensional analysis of deprivation in urban areas of Brazil between 2003 and 2008 based on a four-dimensional index (living conditions, health, level of education and participation in the labour market) constructed out of 13 different indicators. Its findings indicate that a majority of the population is living in households that are not experiencing deprivation and that, of those that are, the instance of deprivation is confined to a single indicator. When the results were then compared with the income-poverty index for the differen…
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of the Bolsa Família family conditional cash transfer programme (PBF) on beneficiary families' spending on food, fruit, meat and fish, poultry and eggs, green vegetables, cereals and oilseed products, flours and pastas, tuber and root vegetables, sugar, bakery products, alcoholic beverages, education, hygiene, health and school utensils. The estimation was based on microdata obtained from the 2008-2009 Brazilian Household Budget Survey; and the propensity-score matching methodology was used to calculate the average effect of the treatment o…
This article deals with the interaction between supply chains and territory, identifying two types of development: the enclave type of the rain-fed farming economy in the inland area known as the Secano Interior, and the potential linkage between this enclave and the greater metropolitan area of Concepción. The benefits of the forestry and cellulose supply chain, which is of global importance, are not spreading through its territory, which remains underdeveloped. Greater Concepción, the country's second most important industrial conurbation, has not succeeded in es…
This edition of the FAL Bulletin aims to present and encourage the use of the economic infrastructure investment database for Latin America and the Caribbean (EII-LAC-DB), built by the Infrastructure Services Unit of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The information contained refers to the period 1980-2012, in keeping with measurements undertaken by the World Bank, ECLAC and under the cooperation agreement between ECLAC and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF).…
El presente Boletín FAL, tiene por objeto presentar y poner a disposición de los usuarios, la base de datos de inversiones en infraestructura económica de América Latina y el Caribe (EII-LAC-DB) construida por la Unidad de Servicios de Infraestructura de CEPAL. La información contenida en este Boletín FAL corresponde al periodo 1980-2012, según las mediciones realizadas por el Banco Mundial, la CEPAL y el acuerdo de cooperación entre CEPAL y CAF.…
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Los bosques son los pulmones de nuestro planeta. Cubren un tercio del total de la superficie terrestre y albergan el 80% de la biodiversidad de la Tierra. Son cruciales para dar respuesta a un sinfín de imperativos del desarrollo sostenible, desde la erradicación de la pobreza a la seguridad alimentaria, desde la mitigación del cambio climático y la adaptación a este fenómeno a la reducción del riesgo de que se produzcan catástrofes.
Se calcula que 1.600 millones de personas dependen de los bosques para obtener alimento, combustible, cobijo e…
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(21 de marzo, 2014) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, se reunió este jueves 20 de marzo en Lima con ministros del Gobierno de Perú para plantear los principales lineamientos del documento de posición que se entregará durante el próximo período de sesiones que el organismo regional celebrará del 5 al 9 de mayo en esa ciudad y afinar los preparativos de dicha cita.
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(18 de marzo, 2014) Hasta el próximo 20 de abril se recibirán postulaciones para participar en la XV Escuela de verano sobre economías latinoamericanas 2014, curso de formación organizado por la División de Desarrollo Productivo y Empresarial de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). Los nombres de las personas seleccionadas se anunciarán el 30 de abril.
La Escuela está orientada a estudiantes avanzados de Economía o de disciplinas afines, en particular a alumnos de maestría y doctorado interesados en estudiar el proceso de desarrollo latinoamericano. Las clases pr…
It is a meeting that takes place every two years and is attended by the 44 Member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and 12 associate Members. During the meeting, the Organization presents a document which analyzes the development of the region and proposes actions to further progress in the economic and social elds.…
Es una reunión que se realiza cada dos años y a la que asisten los 44 Estados miembros de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y 12 miembros asociados. Durante el encuentro, el organismo presenta un documento donde analiza el desarrollo de la región y propone acciones para seguir progresando en el ámbito social y en el económico.…