ECLAC Books / Libros de la CEPAL

The book sets out the framework of rights-based social protection policies and how they apply to the particular situation of the elderly population and looks at the status of older persons in terms of...

This publication aims to contribute to the research, analysis and design of proposals for the social protection of older persons. It develops a new conceptual approach and uses various indicators for...

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”...

The policy analyses and proposals presented in this book focus on national programmes to foster universal broadband access and the debate on Internet neutrality. The study of the current trends...

The study focuses on the main lessons left by the economic crisis of the 1980s and presents a proposal for consideration by Member States' governments, for the development of the Latin American and...

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...

The documents included in this collection constitute primary sources about the most decisive external economic relationship of twentieth-century Central America. As they reveal, the presence of the...

This publication examines how external debt financing has evolved in the past three decades (1982-2012). It looks back 30 years and analyses the Latin American and Caribbean region’s trajectory from...

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...

Labour conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been a cause for concern. Despite relatively high economic growth rates, a large part of labour force was excluded from productive...

This publication calls for the transformation of the production patterns of Latin America and the Caribbean within the next decade, through education, training and the incorporation of scientific and...

Under the assumption that regional planning was the most favourable way to incorporate the environmental dimension into development planning, five case studies were set up covering ecosystems...

This publication provides a comprehensive view of the United Nations concerns regarding the development challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean. This abridged volume is composed of three...

The evolution of the family in the Latin American and Caribbean countries reflects a number of world wide trends such as smaller family size, growing family instability, the variety of child rearing...

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)...

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 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...

The analysis of how Latin American and Caribbean economies participate in different segments of GVCs is at the heart of the current work agenda of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the...

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...

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...