Sede Subregional de la CEPAL para el Caribe (Estudios e Investigaciones)
Recent Submissions
Policy Brief: Planning for resilience: an integrated approach to tackle climate change in the Caribbean
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued
- 2020-07-02
- Physical Description
- 9 p.
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The Caribbean subregion is exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Vulnerability is a key multidimensional concept at the heart of resilience building, relating to each country’s multiple spatial and socioeconomic risks and conditions. In fact, due to i...
Policy Brief: Policy actions to facilitate upgrading of the agricultural sector in Trinidad and Tobago
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued
- 2019-12-23
- Physical Description
- 9 p.
- UN symbol:
For many countries, the acceleration of integration into the global economy and multilateral trading system provides an opportunity to access a wider range of goods and services as well as export markets, increasing their economic incomes, and improving the welfare of the citizenry. In particular, ...
Policy Brief: Incorporating the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics in Caribbean national statistical legislation
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued
- 2019-12-20
- Physical Description
- 8 p.
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The United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (UNFPOS) are considered the basic framework that National Statistical Systems (NSS) must observe in order to produce high quality, independent statistics that support informed decision-making and public confidence in government.
Th...
Policy Brief: Moving towards equal access to technology for persons with disabilities in the Caribbean
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued
- 2019-10-18
- Physical Description
- 12 p.
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In the Caribbean, there are approximately 1.3 million persons with a disability of some kind and some 250,000 persons with a significant disability. These numbers are projected to increase dramatically in the coming decades as the population of the subregion ages and given the global increase in c...
Policy Brief: implementation strategies for youth mainstreaming in sustainable development processes
- Author(s):
- Camarinhas, Catarina
- Date Issued
- 2019-02
- Physical Description
- 21 p.
- UN symbol:
In light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this policy brief provides an account of the current status of Caribbean youth policies and considers how youth mainstreaming concepts can be applied constructively to strengthen sustainable development planning and policies in the subregion....
National population policy for St. Lucia
- Corporate Author(s):
- St. Lucia. National Population Unit for the National Population Council |
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
- Date Issued
- 1991-11
- Physical Description
- 54 p.
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CARISPLAN: abstracting manual
- Corporate Author(s):
- NU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe |
- CDCC
- Date Issued
- 1989-02-01
- Physical Description
- 10 p.
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This manual describes the scope of the Caribbean Information System for Economic and Social Planning (CARISPLAN) and identifies the required content of abstracts to be included in this system. The concept of an "abstract" is defined and various types explained. Characteristics and content of an a...
Addressing capacity gaps in the production of the SDG indicators in the Caribbean
- Author(s):
- Abdulkadri, Abdullahi
- Date Issued
- 2017-12
- Physical Description
- 20 p.
- UN symbol:
The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicator Framework is endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission as the monitoring mechanism for the 169 targets and more than 230 indicators of the SDGs. Reporting of these indicators will pose a formidable challenge to the Caribbean give...
An assessment of the challenges to Caribbean offshore financial centres: Saint Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda
- Author(s):
- Mc Lean, Sheldon |
- Jordan, Ava
- Date Issued
- 2017-12
- Physical Description
- 20 p.
- UN symbol:
Offshore Shore Centres (OFCs) are generally small, low tax jurisdictions. In defining International Financial Centers (IFC’s) the International Monetary Fund (IMF) notes that there must be a large number of financial institutions functioning in a simplified regulatory environment, with low or no ta...
Prospects for blockchain-based settlement frameworks as a resolution to the threat of de-risking to Caribbean financial systems
- Author(s):
- Williams, Robert Crane
- Date Issued
- 2017-04
- Physical Description
- 23 p.
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Caribbean countries have been seriously impacted by the trend toward “de-risking” in the global financial system, and this is damaging to their economic security and the ability of Caribbean businesses to innovate. De-risking is the name given to the tendency of banking institutions to turn away fr...