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Neostructuralism delves more deeply into the issues addressed in structuralism, aiming to improve positioning in the international economy, boost productive employment creation, reduce structural...

Dynamic Asia has overtaken the European Union as Latin America and the Caribbean's second largest export market, after the United States. However, the region's exports to Asia remain concentrated in...

This document is adopted from The Latin America and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in October 2001. It seeks to...

Renewed access to international capital markets in the 1990s has expanded the supply of available resources for the development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. The volatility of these...

The world of work is going through far-reaching transformations. These transformations have a strong impact on labour markets and pose new challenges for their institutions, including unemployment...

This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a...

This book offers a portrayal of the opportunities for social inclusion afforded to young people in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to building stronger youth policies in the region. The...

This book contains 19 papers authored by renowned specialists on the subject of social capital and poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. The majority of the papers focus on social...

This book brings together the results of a project entitled “Enhancement of citizen awareness for the formulation of policies to control air pollution in three metropolitan areas of Latin America”...

This book underscores the need for a rural industrial policy that promotes a structural change based on innovation, greater value added and better employment and living conditions, all in harmony with...

The world is going through a period of change. Volatile economic growth, climate change, the technological revolution, migration and the demographic transition all reflect this, as do the impacts...

There is mounting empirical evidence that the responsible provision and use of formal financial services have a positive impact on household well-being and enterprise performance. At the individual...

This publication presents a series of essays resulting from an international conference convened in Santiago de Chile in 1999 by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)...

The final decade of the twentieth century was a momentous one for Latin America, as it witnessed sweeping changes that represented a turning point with regard to previous trends in the region. The...

Diverse social programmes—including conditional cash transfer programmes, labour and production inclusion programmes and social pensions—are being implemented in Latin American and Caribbean countries...

The concept of the Information Society is the central focus of this study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The study examines topics such as the type of...

The countries of the region have substantially progressed with large-scale application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to varied aspects of economic and social development: the...

This work aims to provide some useful elements for addressing specific issues related to coordinating policies among sovereign nations in a world undergoing globalization and subject to increasing...

This publication examines the main debates under way on social protection and co-responsibility transfer programmes. It identifies the role played by these programmes and considers the conceptual...

The economies of China and of the Latin America and the Caribbean region are the current global growth poles and, over the coming years, will grow twice or three times as quickly as the industrialised...