In October 2009 CELADE, together with the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and in the context of the National Transfer Accounts project, organised a meeting of experts in which certain government representatives, in particular from the five countries participating in the project, as well as those from different regional and international organisations, analyzed the consequences of population ageing on economic growth and the sustainability of Latin American transfer systems using information produced in the first phase of the project. This vol…
Este trabajo tiene dos objetivos complementarios. Por una parte, evaluar a partir de las últimas encuestas de hogares cómo ha evolucionado el uso de los servicios de salud por parte de los diferentes grupos de ingreso. Con esto se pretende indagar hasta qué punto se ha revertido la tendencia hacia la segmentación del sistema público de salud, lo cual fue uno de los objetivos de la reforma de la atención primaria implementada en los años noventa. Por otra parte, realizar una proyección del uso de los servicios de salud en los próximos 40 años, con el fin de alertar sobre las consecuencias que l…
This paper addresses the issue of the availability of data on persons with disabilities in the Caribbean subregion. It was prepared as a background paper for the Subregional Meeting and Capacity-Development Training Workshop on Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Caribbean which was held in Port of Spain from 9 - 10 November 2010. It presents the findings of a survey conducted by ECLAC aimed at gaining insight on current practices of national statistical offices and other data collecting agencies with respect to the collection of natio…
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