The member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) have called for an integrated approach to development. Despite making significant macroeconomic progress in the 1990s, the Latin American economies reached the end of the decade with relative poverty levels above those of 1980, while labour market conditions have worsened in most countries. To achieve development with equity, it is essential to apply a gender perspective to public-policy formation, as a technical-analytical instrument to accompany the overall ethical-political goal. For the United Nati…
El presente documento, contiene la edición de una parte de las discusiones sostenidas en el Foro sobre Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (DESC), auspiciado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y la Fundación Social, y que tuvo lugar en Bogota en noviembre de 2001. Los participantes en este foro, provienen de distintas disciplinas, son abogados, economistas, administradores públicos, sociólogos, historiadores, filósofos y periodistas. Se desempeñan en distintas actividades en el sector público, la academia, la rama judicial, ONG y organismos internacionales…
El presente documento, contiene la edición de la segunda parte de las discusiones sostenidas en el Foro sobre Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (DESC);, auspiciado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL); y la Fundación Social, y que tuvo lugar en Bogota en noviembre de 2001. Los participantes en este foro, provienen de distintas disciplinas, son abogados, economistas, administradores públicos, sociólogos, historiadores, filósofos y periodistas. Se desempeñan en distintas actividades en el sector público, la academia, la rama judicial, ONG y organismos intern…
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Evento (Foro de Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible)
Este evento, realizado en el marco de la Quinta Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, busca potenciar el intercambio de experiencias sobre los aprendizajes y desafíos que la pandemia ha evidenciado en los sistemas de pensiones, en el marco del avance hacia Estados de bienestar fortalecidos y sistemas universales, integrales y sostenibles de protección social.…
In this book, those who search for an equitable and sustainable future will find a valuable collection of methodological proposals, case analyses and recommendations for varied aspects of development. This book is an indispensable tool for decision-makers, researchers, development professionals and anyone interested in inequality issues. When diving into its pages, readers will discover a comprehensive approach based on evidence and endorsed by the experience and knowledge of experts. The book addresses topics ranging from poverty and income inequality to social protection, agriculture, energy…
In this book, those who search for an equitable and sustainable future will find a valuable collection of methodological proposals, case analyses and recommendations for varied aspects of development. This book is an indispensable tool for decision-makers, researchers, development professionals and anyone interested in inequality issues. When diving into its pages, readers will discover a comprehensive approach based on evidence and endorsed by the experience and knowledge of experts. The book addresses topics ranging from poverty and income inequality to social protection, agriculture, energy…
The premature death of former president Néstor Kirchner is a great loss not only for Argentina, but for the entire international community. Kirchner was a friend of the United Nations and a national and international leader who firmly believed in true multilateralism.
A long and distinguished career in public service, which included being intendent of his home town Río Gallegos and governor of Santa Cruz, prepared him well for the challenges he would face early into his presidency. From 2003 to 2007, he boldly tackled the effects of the deepest financial and economic crisis in Argentina's hist…
An examination of the links between migration and developmentusing census micro data for 15 Latin American countries reveals that: (i);internal migration is diminishing, which was not foreseen in the specialistliterature, (ii); internal migration, while apparently helpful for individuals andbeneficial for successful regions, erodes the human resources of poorerregions, and (iii); as a result of increasing urbanization, urban-urban migrationis replacing rural to urban migration as the predominant flow and other typesof migration are on the increase, an example being intrametropolitan migrationw…
The inadequacies of social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean reveal a clear need for more active fiscal policies in this area. Although economic growth and decent employment are indispensable preconditions for social progress, the need for financing from public expenditure is ineluctable in the medium term. The present article examines three ways of achieving this objective. The first is to close the tax gap, since the fiscal burden is low in most Latin American and Caribbean countries. The second is to construct budgeting systems capable of removing rigidities and reallocating pub…
Abstract This paper presents a methodology for adjusting measures of income and poverty for the risk faced by a household. The approach draws on the standard economic concept of risk aversion, and it is based on the intuition that households will prefer a steady stream of income to a variable one with the same mean. Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk-adjusted income and poverty measures. At the aggregate level, we find that taking risk into account substantially increases the poverty headcount. Moreover, a regression …
The Report of the Secretary General of the United Nations on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration, entitled In larger freedom: towards security, development and human rights for all is a strong reminder of the need for an integrated approach to the various subjects considered therein, specially as they relate to the consolidation of democracy and of a durable peace. The subsequent establishment of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, has opened a promising instance for the contribution from different sectors to the fundamental task of post-conflict reconstruction. T…
It has now been five years since the landmark United Nations Millennium Declaration
and related Development Goals (MDGs), wad adopted by Member States. The
Declaration is a blueprint for action and has created a political momentum which
holds great potential not only for improving the rights and empowerment of
women, but more fundamentally for achieving the MDGs. The targets and indicators
represent concrete benchmarks to measure progress on the eight development
goals.
The 2000 Millennium Declaration commits States to promote gender equality and
the empowerment of women as effective ways to c…
This article seeks to set forth the grounds for an approach integrating political governance, economic competitiveness and social integration as interdependent variables. To this end, it looks at the possibilities for Latin American society to simultaneously increase its capacity for democratic self-government, improve its economic competitiveness and tackle the main problems of social exclusion and poverty, since if this is not done the region will find it more difficult to take its place in the concert of modern democratic nations. In order to analyse the evolution of those variables from a …
Within the context of the globalization of the economy, communication and culture and the transition towards societies based on information and knowledge, the sustained development of the cultural industry stands out as a priority means for the articulation of society. For at least the last three decades, culture has been increasingly linked with the growth of the social communication media. Indeed, the cultural industry is becoming a strategic sector for competitiveness, employment, consensus-building, the style of politics and the circulation of information and knowledge. This growing weight…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional
Headquarters for the Caribbean presents its fourth edition of the Women in
Development Bibliography.
The online bibliography provides references on women, gender and development for
Caribbean and non-Caribbean publications, and documents that are less widely
disseminated, such as research and conference papers and technical reports. The
bibliography aims to be a reference guide to help stakeholders and international actors
involved in gender issues on the literature available and current research themes from
Caribb…
Introduction
Since the first version issued in 1997, the Directory of national organizations dealing with programmes and policies on women in Latin America and the Caribbean (LC/L.1065); lists national authorities for the advancement of women and gender equity, specific programmes organized by ministries of foreign affairs and other official bodies responsible for women's issues at the sectoral level in each member State and associate members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);. For the purposes of this update, countries were once again requested to pr…
The population of the Turks and Caicos Islands could reach 55,498 people by the year 2027 – compared with 32,199 in 2012 – according to the medium projection in a joint report launched today by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the Statistics Department of the Turks and Caicos Government.
Net migration accounts for 68 per cent of this projected increase with natural change (births less deaths) accounting for the remaining 32 per cent. Immigration of people from neighbouring countries seeking employmen…
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…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in collaboration with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Caribbean Office is reviewing gender issues in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) programmes and projects being developed or implemented in the Caribbean subregion. The main objective of this review, of which this report is one component, is to assist in developing a programme for combating HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean within the context of their mandate to provide technic…
The proposal for development and integration in Central America put forward by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the basis of its considerable prior experience, is set out and updated in these infographics. The proposal emphasizes the need for a progressive structural change driven across various fronts: the social sector, energy, climate change challenges, infrastructure, fiscal coordination, trade, productive integration and innovation. It focuses on the importance of an environmental big push for equality and sustainability, supported by coordinated publ…