Temario provisional anotado. Decimoctava Reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe

De beneficiarias a ciudadanas: acceso y tratamiento de las mujeres en los sistemas de pensiones de América Latina

Las mujeres constituyen la mayoría de la población adulta mayor, pero, salvo excepciones, están subrepresentadas entre quienes perciben pensiones. Si bien en la región se ha avanzado en la inclusión por medio de pensiones no contributivas, estas son las prestaciones de menor monto y no permiten a las mujeres superar la situación de pobreza. Lograr que la dimensión de género esté presente de forma integral en el diseño de las reformas de los sistemas de pensiones constituye un desafío. La inclusión de las mujeres en los sistemas de pensiones es indispensable para hacer frente a la nueva estruct…

The Hummingbird Vol.6 No.3

Caribbean Samoa Pathway prioritized

Report of the Seventeenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Informe de la XVII Reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe

Carta Circular de la Red de Cooperación en la Gestión Integral de Recursos Hídricos para el Desarrollo Sustentable en América Latina y el Caribe N° 50

A economia da mudança climática na América Latina e no Caribe: uma visão gráfica

A mudança climática é um dos grandes desafios do século XXI devido a suas causas e consequências globais e à magnitude dos esforços necessários e simultâneos para amortecer seus impactos negativos, adaptar-se às novas condições climáticas e realizar os processos de mitigação das emissões de gases de efeito estufa. O principal objetivo desta publicação é apresentar as hipóteses e as cifras básicas da economia da mudança climática na América Latina e no Caribe de forma resumida e gráfica. Esses fatos estilizados procuram contribuir para uma melhor formulação, implementação e avaliação das políti…

Balance preliminar de las economías de Centroamérica y la República Dominicana en 2018 y perspectivas para 2019

En el presente documento se hace un balance preliminar de las economías de Centroamérica (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá) y la República Dominicana en 2018 y se ofrecen perspectivas para 2019. Es un análisis de coyuntura elaborado por la Unidad de Desarrollo Económico de la sede subregional de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en México, con información disponible al 31 de enero de 2019. Los datos presentados en las secciones de contexto internacional y rasgos generales de este documento se basan en el informe de la CEPAL Balance Pr…

Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2018

The Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2018 analyses the performance of the Caribbean subregion to the global economy. It provides a comparative analysis of global economic growth, commodity price performance, Caribbean growth performance, and unemployment. This is then followed by a subsection on fiscal policy and public debt. Subsequent subsections elaborate on monetary policy, and the external sector. Section II presents country briefs for the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, together with the member states of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union …

Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2017–2018

The report provides an overview of the economic performance for 2017 of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago plus the eight Member States of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), and the outlook for 2018. Data were collected from a review of reports from subregional institutions as well as national governments and interviews with government officials in each of the countries examined.…

Mainstreaming disaster risk management strategies in development instruments (II): policy briefs for Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago

This set of policy briefs has the objective of profiling disaster risk management (DRM) policies in five selected member States of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee: Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The present publication is the second that ECLAC has released on the mainstreaming of DRM strategies on this topic area. In 2017, a similar document was published for the following countries: The Bahamas, Belize, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. It also aims at analysing these policies and their interactions with broader development issues an…

Implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in the Caribbean: a review of the period 2013–2018

This study provides a comprehensive review and evaluation of the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in the Caribbean. The Montevideo Consensus was adopted by the governments of the region in 2013 and includes more than one hundred priority actions covering themes including population policy and planning; children and youth; ageing; sexual and reproductive health; gender equality; international migration; territorial inequality; and indigenous peoples. This study was prepared to inform the first five-year review of the implementation of the Consensus which …

Road transport in Latin America: evolution of its infrastructure and impact between 2007 and 2015

This issue analyses data on investments in Latin American road infrastructure between 2007 and 2015, examines the subsector’s evolution and emphasizes the negative repercussions of accident fatalities and carbon emissions. It aims to raise awareness about the importance of this mode of transport in the region and to underscore the need for socioeconomic evaluations of road projects and for additional, better and more transparent data and information on the sector, using a cross-cutting approach in pursuit of sustainable development.…

Capital Flows to Latin America and the Caribbean: 2018 Year-in-Review

In 2018, bond issuance from Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) slowed, bond spreads widened and credit quality deteriorated. The region saw the best and the worst conditions for tapping international capital markets in 2018. In January 2018, issuers from the region placed their highest ever monthly volume of debt in international markets. On the other hand, December 2018, with no issuance recorded, was the worst December on record for LAC issuers. Bond activity in 2018 was affected by a heavy electoral calendar at the domestic level, and by U.S. interest rate hikes, withdrawal of dollar li…

Territorio y desarrollo en la Argentina: las brechas estructurales de desarrollo en la provincia de Formosa

En este documento se hace un análisis integral de la situación de la provincia de Formosa (Argentina) en materia de ingresos, desigualdad, empleo, pobreza, educación, salud, producción, infraestructura y medioambiente. Se sitúa a la provincia en perspectiva frente a las regiones específicas a la que pertenece y a la totalidad de la Nación. A partir de los resultados observados, se sugieren ciertas áreas de intervención estratégica para la agenda de políticas públicas de la provincia: el mejoramiento de la infraestructura energética y comunicacional, la integración de las cadenas productivas y …

Non-monetary indicators to monitor SDG targets 1.2 and 1.4: standards, availability, comparability and quality

This report offers a review of 14 non-monetary indicators of poverty to monitor progress towards the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) “End poverty in all its forms everywhere”. The reviewed indicators are housing materials, overcrowding, housing tenure, durable goods, access to safe water and improved sanitation, access to clean sources of energy, garbage collection and nearby sources of contamination, (public) transportation, child attendance to school and adult schooling, employment, social security and access to health care.…

Challenges in designing national multidimensional poverty measures

Countries are increasingly interested in having an official multidimensional poverty index (MPI). This is the expression of a growing consensus regarding the limitations of income poverty measures as standalone indicator. This paper analyses the challenges in designing such indices. Specifically, it addresses the selection of the unit of identification, the selection of dimensions and indicators, including the issue of missing values and the debate on whether to include an indicator of monetary deprivation or not, the weighting structure and the poverty cutoff. In general, for all the reviewed…

Boletín Envejecimiento y Desarrollo No. 16

First regional report on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development

This report seeks to give an account of progress in the implementation of the priority measures of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in the region, as well as the differences between countries in terms of the degree of implementation. By highlighting relevant national experiences, it also seeks to facilitate the exchange of good practices among countries so that they can benefit from each other in their efforts to advance the implementation of the actions of the Montevideo Consensus.…