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The Mexican maquila industry and the environment: an overview of the issues
(ECLAC, 2002-12)
The Mexico-United States border region comprises one of the most dynamic and complex industrial areas in the world. The region is characterized by high population growth and increasing urbanization and industrialization, ...
Role of environmental awareness in achieving sustainable development
(ECLAC, 2000-11-23)
This document was prepared by the consultant, Michiko Iizuka, under the project 'Enhancement of Citizen's Awareness in Formulation of Pollution Control Policies in Major Latin American Cities', which is being carried out ...
Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022: Fiscal policy challenges for sustainable and inclusive development
(ECLAC, 2022-07-22)
The region is facing a complex economic situation, marked by slowing growth, rising inflation, interest rate hikes and volatility in international markets. This context puts pressure on public finances, compounded by ...
The 2004 hurricanes in the Caribbean and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean: lessons and policy challenges for development and disaster reduction
(CEPAL, 2005-08)
Are there lessons to be learned from the recent disasters at the global scale? Are the numbers of disasters increasing and is their impact more severe? Is there a difference to be established among hazard exposure and the ...
The liberalization of environmental goods and services: overview and implications for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2011-11)
This paper focuses primarily on proposals to liberalize trade of Environmental Goods, characterizing the trade of these products in Latin America and the Caribbean. The objective is to help identify trends, risks and ...
Green jobs in Argentina: opportunities to move forward with the environmental and social agenda
(2019-12-19)
The Argentine economy has been becoming greener because of a new political orientation, international commitments (the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) and private sector initiatives. This ...
Compacts for Equality: Towards a Sustainable Future
(ECLAC, 2014-04)
The document which ECLAC presents on this occasion explores further the theme of equality addressed at the two previous sessions of the Commission, in Time for Equality: Closing Gaps, Opening Trails (2010, Brasilia), and ...
Millennium development goals: advances in environmentally sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2010-01)
By adopting the Millennium Declaration of 2000, the 189 States Members of the United Nations undertook a commitment to redouble their efforts to eradicate poverty in the world. This led to the establishment of the Millennium ...
Environmental planning in the wider Caribbean and Latin America: Constraints to an effective regional institutional structure
(ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, 1980-05)
States that the countries of the Wider Caribbean exhibit a number of similar features of environmental impact as a result of the development process. There are likely to be objectives common to most of the national policies ...
The social inequality matrix in Latin America
(ECLAC, 2016-10-27)
Social inequality is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For Latin America —the world’s most unequal region— social inequality also represents a structural feature and therefore a fundamental ...