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Accelerating Progress Toward Substantive Equality and the Care Society

8 March 2025 | Op-ed

In 1975, the United Nations commemorated International Women’s Day for the first time, recognizing centuries of women’s struggles for equality, development, and peace. Latin America and the Caribbean have made significant progress in achieving legal equality. Today, women have on average, more years of education than men and are increasingly occupying decision-making positions. However, gaps persist in all countries. In the region, female labour force participation remains low: only 50% of women participate in the labour market, compared to 75% of men. Moreover, their participation is marked b…

Road safety is everyone’s business: Joint Op-Ed

17 February 2025 | Op-ed

If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people globally, what would you say? Malaria? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all up there, but no, it’s road crashes. Cars have been around for over 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute, and nearly 1.2 million lives every year. If these deaths were caused by a virus, it would be called a pandemic and the world would scramble to develop vaccines to prevent them. And yet reducing road deaths has long been overlooked, misunderstood …

Securing Greater and Sustained Access to Long-term, Low-cost Finance for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

11 June 2024 | Op-ed

The leadership of the United Nations and the wider international community, including over fifty Heads of Government and Heads of State, are focusing on the smallest and most vulnerable member countries this week with the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in Antigua and Barbuda. This meeting reviews the sustainable development progress of SIDS over the past decade and adopts a new action platform for the next ten years. Of the 57 countries identified as SIDS by the UN, 29 are in the Caribbean, comprising 16 member States and 13 territories. The Economic …

Why 2015 is key for sustainable development

7 May 2015 | Op-ed

In the upcoming months, decision-makers and leaders will have unprecedented opportunities to establish, within a multi-lateral framework, a transformational agenda for the future of sustainable development. In a context of global paradigm shifts, the concurrence of three key global summits will define the route and aspirations of this agenda for the coming decades. The Third Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Addis Ababa in July, represents a unique forum for recasting development financing to meet the approach of the post-2015 development agenda. This agenda, to be ad…

Spreading the Wealth

10 March 2011 | Op-ed

Complete article by ECLAC's Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena Other languages: Distribuir la riqueza (ES) Repartindo a riqueza (PT)…

Kirchner, a Multilateralist

30 October 2010 | Op-ed

The premature death of former president Néstor Kirchner is a great loss not only for Argentina, but for the entire international community. Kirchner was a friend of the United Nations and a national and international leader who firmly believed in true multilateralism. A long and distinguished career in public service, which included being intendent of his home town Río Gallegos and governor of Santa Cruz, prepared him well for the challenges he would face early into his presidency. From 2003 to 2007, he boldly tackled the effects of the deepest financial and economic crisis in Argentina's hist…

Challenges and Opportunities for a State Role in the Post-Crisis

15 June 2010 | Op-ed

Abstract: The global financial crisis that emerged in developed countries' markets revealed the shortcomings of an economic policy approach which believed in the self-regulation of markets and minimized the role of the State. The post-crisis reality demands a reformulation of the role of the State. Latin America and the Caribbean countries face this challenge in a context of ongoing changes in the world production structure that threaten its position in the global economy. Although many Latin American and Caribbean countries were successful in overcoming the crisis, four key areas of policymak…

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