Durante el año 2021, en América Latina y El Caribe se produjo un aumento de los precios de los principales productos básicos de exportación, debiéndose principalmente a la recuperación de la demanda global, tras el impacto de la pandemia por Covid- 19.
El tercer número del Boletín Recursos Naturales en América Latina y el Caribe, elaborado por la División de Recursos Naturales de la CEPAL, presenta un análisis de la evolución de los precios de los recursos naturales no renovables y productos agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe considerando los efectos del cambio climático, la pandemia por …
Las mujeres de localidades pequeñas y medianas —que cuentan con ofertas locales públicas y privadas de provisión de cuidados menos robustas que en los grandes centros urbanos— debieron lidiar más con la pérdida de empleos o de ingresos que con el teletrabajo durante la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19). A diferencia de las mujeres que habitan en zonas urbanas, que debieron sobre todo garantizar la conexión a clases en línea, las que habitan en zonas rurales tuvieron que convertirse en “maestras” de sus hijos y gestionar el acceso a materiales de estudio. Con menos ingresos, lle…
This document, prepared in the framework of the United Nations Development Account twelfth tranche residual balance (DAT12A) project “Building Urban Economic Resilience during and after COVID-19”, aims to provide a critical analysis of the challenges faced by Latin American and Caribbean countries amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and of the main elements that build economic and financial resilience. First, a detailed description of the project is given and the importance of economic and financial resilience is explained. The background and challenges in the region and the spec…
Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 is a joint publication by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC), the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the support of the European Union Regional Facility for Development in Transition for Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents detailed, internationally comparable data on tax rev…
Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 is a joint publication by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC), the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the support of the European Union Regional Facility for Development in Transition for Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents detailed, internationally comparable data on tax rev…
Economic crises are not new, but the way countries respond to and seek to build back from their effects is an ever-evolving process. In the present context, the strategies adopted by Latin American and Caribbean countries to recover from the dramatic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are marked by an urgent need to also address the climate crisis.
This publication examines the synergies and linkages between post-COVID-19 crisis recovery approaches stemming from a sustainable energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study aims to identify recovery strategie…
Panorama de las relaciones fiscales entre niveles de gobierno en países de América Latina y el Caribe es una publicación conjunta elaborada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) con el objetivo de brindar un análisis regional y nacional de las finanzas públicas subnacionales de los países de la región. En el documento se presentan estadísticas detalladas y comparables a nivel internacional sobre las finanzas públicas subnacionales de 26 países de América Latina y el Caribe, incluida información inédita sobre algunos país…
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is the worst global crisis since the Second World War, with developing countries suffering more devastating economic and social effects than developed countries. Governments’ increased pandemic-related expenditure combined with the drastic fall in tax revenues have increased their fiscal deficits and heightened their debt vulnerabilities. The generalized increase in fiscal imbalances and indebtedness has given rise to greater liquidity needs across developing countries, despite considerable heterogeneity in their fiscal positions and debt profiles.
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Em sua edição de 2021, o Balanço Preliminar das Economias da América Latina e do Caribe examina o comportamento das economias da região durante o ano e atualiza os números de crescimento e outros indicadores que refletem o impacto sofrido pelos países da região como resultado da crise do COVID-19. Em particular, o documento apresenta novas estimativas do produto interno bruto (PIB) para a região e todos os seus países em 2020 e fornece uma primeira estimativa de crescimento para 2022.…