La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) reafirmó su propuesta de transformación económica y social para acelerar la implementación de la Agenda 2030, durante el Foro Político de Alto Nivel sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible (FPAN), que se celebra hasta el jueves 18 de julio en la sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo del organismo regional, tuvo una activa participación en varias sesiones plenarias y eventos paralelos del foro mundial, en los que compartió su visión para avanzar hacia un modelo de desarrollo más product…
El Secretario Ejecutivo de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, sostuvo este lunes 10 de marzo una reunión informativa con Embajadores y representantes del cuerpo diplomático acreditado en Chile para presentar los preparativos, principales temas y acciones que abordará la octava reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que se realizará del 31 de marzo al 4 de abril en la sede central del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas en Santiago, Chile.
A la reunión, que se realizar…
The social partnership process is acknowledged by most independent observers as an important cornerstone underpinning the rapid economic growth of Ireland. It is seen as a virtuous circle in the economy between government, employers, labor, farmers and voluntary groups encompassing pay, profitability, investment, employment and tax reform. It means that all groups in Irish society have a stakeholding in economic and social progress and in the strengthening of social cohesion. The real secret behind the success of the Irish social partnership model can be summarized in one phrase - a shared u…
The generation dynamic competitive advantages in Latin America and the Caribbean cannot be assumed to result automatically from the achievement of the necessary macroeconomic stability and the incorporation of part of the system of production into some dynamic segments (or niches); of the international economy. Recent empirical information on local economic development initiatives in the developed countries indicates that macroeconomic adjustment policies must be accompanied by other specific policies at the microeconomic and mesoeconomic levels. These policies must incorporate the various loc…
Expertise, skills, experiences, understandings and capabilities (knowledge) aid development, not just by informing decision-making, but also by providing ideas for actions and activities that can be taken. Due to their size, and economic and environmental vulnerabilities, Caribbean Small Island developing States (SIDS) faces special challenges when working towards their economic, social and environmental development goals. These challenges have contributed to the creation of knowledge gaps, and that which is already available is located in isolated pockets, throughout the Caribbean. Migration …
In Latin America, the introduction of e-government has been a driving force in the development of Information Societies. As the citizen-government relation is often more intense at the local level, the digitization of information and communication processes in a municipality become a showcase for the demonstration of the opportunities and threats of a new technological paradigm. This study is based on a survey conducted among 106 Chilean and 77 Peruvian municipalities, investigating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure, generic services in the front- and back-office of…
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The Caribbean is considered one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Indeed, the financial impact of disasters such as hurricanes on Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is invariably several times greater than their gross domestic product (GDP). Governments of the subregion therefore must continue to seek innovative approaches to mobilize both domestic and external sources to finance their sustainable development and resilience efforts.…
El encuentro reunió experiencias de Argentina, Brasil, México y San Cristóbal y Nieves, y marcó el lanzamiento global de la capacitación autogestionada sobre Exámenes Locales Voluntarios.…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) reafirmará el compromiso de la región con el cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030 en medio de un complejo contexto internacional, durante la reunión del Foro Político de Alto Nivel sobre Desarrollo Sostenible 2025 (FPAN), que se celebra hasta el miércoles 23 de julio en Nueva York, bajo el lema “Impulsar soluciones sostenibles, inclusivas y basadas en la ciencia y la evidencia para la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible y sus Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible para no dejar a nadie atrás”.
La delegación de la CEPAL estará …
El estudio se inicia con un análisis de la situación y perspectivas del crecimiento poblacional considerando el dinamismo y la distribución espacial de la población, su estructura por edades, la evolución de la población en edad económicamente activa y la oferta de fuerza de trabajo. Luego hace una descripción de dos escenarios de crecimiento y examina los principales conjuntos de proyecciones que sustentan dichos escenarios: crecimiento económico, esfuerzo interno, estructura sectorial, productividad y empleo, y relaciones económicas externas.…
Ministers and policy makers from twenty-two countries across the Caribbean will gather in Trinidad and Tobago next week to discuss and forge a path for transforming and building inclusive and sustainable Caribbean development at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s meetings of the Caribbean Development Roundtable and Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee.…
The White Paper draws on interoperability experience and projects in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago, which provided the basis for the architecture of the Latin America and Caribbean interoperability platform designed by ECLC.1 The European Union's experience with interoperability —in the form of studies, practices and agreements that are potentially useful to the Latin American and Caribbean countries as they discuss interoperability— has also been instructive.The Paper provides definitions to serve as a framework for discussion, and as a starting point for explor…
Latin America has a long history of political violence that include civil wars; guerrilla movements, military intervention, coup d'état, terrorism and others form of violent confrontation. As conflict and terrorism (C-T) produces losses of human lives and destroy assets and property there is an obvious need for prevention and insurance against this kind of risk. Insurance can be provided by both the state and by the market. In countries subject to long and violent conflict there is need for direct provision of insurance and compensation to the victims of conflict and their families. Howe…
Con un llamado a fortalecer el multilateralismo, la democracia y la cooperación regional se inauguró hoy en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago de Chile, la tercera reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que reúne a representantes de gobiernos, sociedad civil, organismos internacionales, sector privado y academia, con el objetivo de revisar los avances y desafíos de la implementación de la Agenda 2030 en la región.
El evento de alto nivel, organizado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y el Gobierno de Cuba -en su…
Resumen Desde antes de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Medio Humano, celebrada en Estocolmo en 1972, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) ha venido efectuando importantes contribuciones para apoyar los esfuerzos de los países de la región por alcanzar metas de desarrollo sostenible. Especial mención merece el documento El desarrollo sustentable: transformación productiva, equidad y medio ambiente , publicado en 1991. En lo que respecta específicamente al tema del agua, la energía y la biodiversidad, la CEPAL ha contribuido con una vasta cantidad de …
This brief is intended to provide general information on the upcoming United Nations Ocean Conference on scaling up ocean actions based on science and innovation for the
implementation of Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14), with a view to stimulating more active, engaged participation of the Caribbean in the discussions. The
United Nations Ocean Conference will be co-chaired by Kenya and Portugal, and hosted by the Government of Portugal in Lisbon, during 2021. The objective of this conference is consistent with the 2017 UN General Assembly proclamation on the Decade of Oce…
An on-line survey of experts was conducted to solicit their views on policy priorities in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Caribbean. The experts considered the goal
to “promote teacher training in the use of ICTs in the classroom” to be the highest priority, followed by goals to “reduce the cost of broadband services” and “promote the use of ICT in emergency and
disaster prevention, preparedness and response.” Goals in the areas of cybercrime, e-commerce, egovernment, universal service funds, consumer
protection, and on-line privacy rounded out the top 10.
S…
Representantes de los 33 países de América Latina y el Caribe reivindicaron el Foro de Desarrollo Sostenible como espacio indispensable para la integración y la cooperación regional en medio de la incertidumbre global, durante la Quinta Reunión del encuentro intergubernamental que fue inaugurado hoy por el Presidente de Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, la Vicesecretaria General de las Naciones Unidas, Amina Mohammed, y la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena.
La Quinta Reunión del Foro de los países de América Latina y el Caribe sobr…