Over the last two decades, new information and communications technologies (ICT) have been incorporated into education systems around the world, as a way of enhancing the learning experience. Latin American countries have over this time made great efforts not to be left behind in this global trend. The first school-oriented ICT policies and programmes began to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This process has been guided by the notion that ICT have the potential to alter the scenario in which they are introduced, and that they can facilitate the review and reformulation of prevaili…
Abstract Reviewing and comparing the economic histories of Europe and Latin America we can observe that the universality of social security systems and the concurrent development of labor market institutions allowed Europe to reduce social inequality, while this has not been possible in Latin America. Pension systems in Latin America face some of the same problems that Europe's social security systems have faced before but with more difficult financing conditions. This document focuses on the lessons that Latin American countries may draw from the experience of Europe as well as on how re…
29 Sep
- 10 Oct
2014, 06:00 - 12:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
A team drawn from ECLAC’s subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the regional headquarters in Santiago, Chile will be holding a training workshop to support the statistical offices of Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, and Barbados in the development of web-based applications for the dissemination of national census data.…
La segunda reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible comenzó hoy en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago de Chile con un llamado a todos los actores involucrados -gobiernos, sociedad civil, organismos internacionales, sector privado y público- a aunar esfuerzos para que la región avance en el cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, hoja de ruta aprobada por las Naciones Unidas para lograr sociedades más inclusivas, sostenibles e igualitarias.
El evento de alto nivel, organizado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el…
Statement by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
ECOSOC operational activities for development segment, 2019
Day 2. Maximizing results: getting the regional architecture right
22 May 2019
Thank you, Mr. Chair,
At the outset, I should like to reaffirm that cooperation, interaction and mutual support between regional commissions and resident coordinators (RCs) is already happening. As stated yesterday by Lebanon, Bangkok, and Costa Rica, RCs are actively participating in our policy intergovernmental platforms. It is as if a b…
Summary This paper analyzes labor market trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s, arguing that employment must be the foundation of a social policy strategy for the region. The paper begins with a discussion of the expectations for labor market performance that were generated by the reform process in the region. It then provides an overview of what actually happened with respect to participation rates, employment generation, unemployment and wages. It also suggests some reasons why reality was less positive than was expected. Next it examines a new hypothesis about the d…
22 - 24 Nov
2022, 06:00 - 13:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The Statistics Division and the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission, have been working together over the past year and a half at the country level to strengthen institutional and statistical capacities of selected Caribbean countries to better produce, disseminate and use environment, climate change and disaster indicators. Wo…
El Plan de Desarrollo Integral tiene el propósito de crear un espacio de desarrollo sostenible y generar oportunidades para mejorar la calidad de vida de la población de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y el sur-sureste de México, y así permitir que la migración sea una opción y no una obligación. Esta es una respuesta articulada del sistema de las Naciones Unidas, que busca generar sinergias y coordinar acciones, con los países en el centro, y con el acompañamiento de las instituciones de integración subregional.…
El Plan de Desarrollo Integral tiene el propósito de crear un espacio de desarrollo sostenible y generar oportunidades para mejorar la calidad de vida de la población de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y el sur-sureste de México, y así permitir que la migración sea una opción y no una obligación. Esta es una respuesta articulada del sistema de las Naciones Unidas, que busca generar sinergias y coordinar acciones, con los países en el centro, y con el acompañamiento de las instituciones de integración subregional.…
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El XVI Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe discutirá cómo la región puede avanzar y proteger los logros sociales en el contexto de choques más frecuentes e intensos.
Esta reunión se basa en las discusiones iniciadas en el XIII Foro Ministerial en Antigua y Barbuda en 2021, que trató sobre desastres y sistemas de protección social en el contexto de crisis prolongadas.
El Foro es coorganizado y auspiciado por el Gobierno de Barbados con el apoyo del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) en América Latina y el Caribe y la Comisión…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean has called on decision makers to create a subregional mechanism to facilitate the participation, engagement and collaboration of youth in development frameworks. This was one of the issues discussed at the Caribbean Forum on Population, Youth and Development during which senior government officials, youth experts and youth representatives agreed on priority actions to advance the regional youth development agenda.
“The integration of youth into development processes is …
The paper reviews the extent of the income inequality decline which has taken place in Latin America
over 2002-2010 which reduced the regional Gini index to the level of the early 1980s. The paper then
focuses on the factors which may explain such decline. These include a drop in the skill premium
following an expansion of secondary education, the adoption of a new development model by a growing
number of progressive governments which adopted prudent but more equitable macroeconomic, tax,
social assistance and labor policies. For the region as a whole, gains in terms of trade, remittances, FDI…
Abstract This paper uses a political economy approach to examine the nature and social impact of Ireland's economic 'miracle', namely the period of high economic growth known as the 'Celtic Tiger', which lasted from 1995 until 2000. Its principal purpose is to offer a broad and multifaceted reading of this period of Irish development, paying particular attention to the links between macroeconomic success and social vulnerability, in order to draw policy lessons for Latin America. The examination of the Celtic Tiger is prefaced by a brief introduction to some of the sa…