Al menos 12 lineamientos para fortalecer la institucionalidad de los Ministerios de Desarrollo Social (MDS) de la región, en cinco áreas clave, ofrece un nuevo documento elaborado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) para orientar los debates de la Quinta Reunión de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe.
En el documento de posición Institucionalidad social en América Latina y el Caribe: eje central para avanzar hacia un desarrollo social inclusivo se hace un análisis de la situación de la institucionalidad social en los país…
Speaking on revitalizing the push to achieve the SDGs by 2030 (17 goals that address critical areas for the enhancement of human wellbeing the protection of the environment), she notes that Caribbean countries face an uphill task because of burdensome debt and debt service with small, undiversified economies, exposure to devastating climate induced natural hazards, limited technical and institutional capacity and inadequate access to low-cost financing.
“The international community has not shown the empathy to Small Island States that have been graduated… You have a per capita income th…
In a global context of cascading crises and great uncertainty, Latin America and the Caribbean continues to face structural problems such as poverty, inequality and the violation of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights. While institutional frameworks for social policy show progress, these frameworks are still being consolidated. This is compounded by critical obstacles to inclusive social development, which include technological transformation, migration, the effects of disasters and climate change, and various forms of violence, that risk exacerbating challenges.
In view of the…
En un contexto mundial marcado por crisis en cascada y una gran incertidumbre, América Latina y el Caribe continúa enfrentando problemas estructurales, como la pobreza, la desigualdad y la vulneración de derechos económicos, sociales, culturales y ambientales, y si bien cuenta con una institucionalidad social que muestra avances, esta aún se encuentra en etapa de consolidación. A ello se suman nudos críticos para el desarrollo social inclusivo que amenazan con profundizar esos retos, como las transformaciones tecnológicas, las migraciones, los impactos de los desastres y el cambio climático, a…
A call for articulating policies for growth, productive development and the labor market with social policies, and for strengthening the social institutional framework and governance of decision-making in a framework of regional cooperation with a view to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was made today by government authorities and international officials at the inauguration of the Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The event – organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the…
Un llamado a articular las políticas de crecimiento, desarrollo productivo y de mercado de trabajo con las políticas sociales, y a fortalecer la institucionalidad social y la gobernanza de la toma de decisiones en un marco de cooperación regional con miras a lograr los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), hicieron hoy autoridades y funcionarios internacionales en la inauguración de la Quinta Reunión de la Conferencia Regional sobre Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe.
El encuentro, organizado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Gobierno de Ch…
Guatemala and Honduras are among the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the highest levels of poverty, with the lowest proportion of the population dependent on clean fuels and technologies, and the highest use of firewood. Available estimates and statistics show that a large part of the population, particularly in rural areas, uses firewood as the main cooking fuel. Although there is progress in terms of electricity coverage, there is an nderconsumption of electricity, since the most used energy source at the residential level is firewood.…
Understanding demographic change in Central America, Mexico and the Hispanic Caribbean, with emphasis on aging, is fundamental for social protection systems. The importance of addressing social protection gaps lies in their manifestation in terms of insufficient coverage, inadequate benefits or lack of accessibility, which prevents progress towards universal protection for all.…
Between 1990 and 2019, the Dominican Republic showed progress in the fight against poverty and inequality. However, its current levels are high when compared to countries of similar development in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the world. As a result, there are still important structural gaps,
defined as the different expressions of inequality, which are wide and persistent, in different areas and among different groups of people, and this hinders development.…
Aanalysis of socioeconomic inequality that involves studying the distances in access to income between the various social strata based on household income in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, but adjusting income to the National Accounts in each country.…
Based on this conceptual framework, gaps corresponding to inequalities are identified, either between countries (horizontal) or between social groups or areas in each country (vertical), based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.…
Despite efforts, large gaps in access to the effective enjoyment of the right to education persist in Guatemala, particularly for rural populations and Indigenous peoples. The unprecedented educational crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased gaps, school dropout rates, learning losses, illiteracy and the slowdown in average schooling levels…
This paper focuses on an analysis of sustainability gaps in the tourism clusters of Puerto Plata and Colonial City in the Dominican Republic, based on the idea that tourism is an economic sector with great potential to contribute to the development of a territory, provided that it is based on sustainability…
Between 1990 and 2020, Guatemala achieved progress in the fight against poverty and inequality; however, there are still important structural, wide and persistent gaps in various social, economic and territorial areas. In addition, the recent pandemic generated by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) and its variants caused one of the deepest economic declines in the past 100 years, generating greater poverty and inequality.…
Dotar al sector público de mejores herramientas de evaluaciones socioeconómicas y ecológicas con enfoque RRD y ASICC es clave para enfrentar eventos y desastres naturales, así como la incidencia del cambio climático.…
México es un país de extrema desigualdad. Una gran parte de esta desigualdad se explica por la progresiva concentración de la riqueza en las élites empresariales que han logrado consolidar su influencia por medio de conexiones entre ellas mismas y con el poder político. Gracias a ello, las élites han conseguido perpetuarse y tener una influencia creciente en la economía mexicana, lo que es evidente en la proporción cada vez mayor que representan las ventas de las 500 empresas más grandes de México en relación con el PIB: dicha proporción pasó del 15% en 1976 al 69% en 2022. También es visible …
El propósito de este estudio es proporcionar análisis y datos actuales sobre el estado del mercado laboral en Chile y los riesgos que plantea el futuro del trabajo en este país. En el informe se hace especial hincapié en determinar los sectores de la población que son vulnerables a la automatización, considerando las características socioeconómicas de las personas y las distintas clases sociales. Se discuten, asimismo, los desafíos que supone la automatización para los sindicatos y su relación con las empresas. Al respecto, se sugiere que los sindicatos en Chile se encuentran en una posición p…