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Inclusive social development: The next generation of policies for overcoming poverty and reducing inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2016-01)
The Latin American and Caribbean region has achieved notable social development in the past decade. However, much remains to be done. The persisting challenges of defeating poverty once and for all and significantly reducing ...
Social Panorama of Latin America 2011
(ECLAC, 2012-03)
For Social Panorama of Latin America, the main challenge is to foster a more in-depth examination of social gaps and the mechanisms that reproduce or decrease them. The previous edition of Social Panorama homed in on ...
Inherited and social factors explaining early skills inequality: the case of Chilean children
(2019-08-26)
This article sets out to analyse differences in cognitive and non-cognitive skills between Chilean children. It first examines factors explaining the level of these skills and then goes on to distinguish between children ...
Social Panorama of Latin America 2014
(ECLAC, 2014-12)
The 2014 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America presents ECLAC measurements for the analysis of income poverty, taking, as well, a multidimensional approach to poverty. Applying these two approaches to data for the ...
Confronting inequality: Social protection for families and early childhood through monetary transfers and care worldwide
(ECLAC, 2017-12-30)
This paper analyzes social protection policies for families and early childhood focusing on three main policies: family allowances and other types of monetary transfers for families with children, work leaves and early ...
Thoughts on the inequality of opportunities: new evidence
(2017-04)
This article evaluates the effects of a set of variables on the inequality of opportunities in Brazil, using the method developed by Li, Chen and Gao (2011) and combining data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) and ...
Growth, poverty and inequality in Central America
(ECLAC, 2007-09)
This study measures and analyses the household income growth performance of six countries in Central America between 1990 and 2004. Using national household surveys over the period, new empirical and methodological tools ...
Changes and inequality in Latin American families
(2002-08)
The family -a key institution in people 's lives - tends to be examined as though it were static and immutable over time. This paper seeks to shed some light on the changes which have affected the family in a broader ...
People of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing indicators to measure and counter inequalities
(ECLAC, 2020-02-25)
People of African descent have become active political and social actors during this century. They have managed to put their historical claims and revindications on public agendas, creating new State obligations to guarantee ...
Social Panorama of Latin America 2019
(ECLAC, 2019-12-04)
This edition of Social Panorama of Latin America offers the customary analysis of trends in income inequality, poverty and social spending in Latin America, and includes an analysis of migration, which has moved up the ...