| Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary, presents the key messages from the document "Time for Equality. Closing Gaps, Opening Trails" that was launched in Brasilia during the Thirty-third Session of the Commission (Brasilia, Brasil, 30 May -- 1 June 2010). The report places equality at the core of all efforts to achieve greater welfare for the Latin American and Caribbean people. Among other issues, the document addresses the current socio-economic situation in the region and challenges in macroeconomic policy, productivity gaps, regional disparities and convergence, employment and labour institutions and taxation and the role of the state. Despite the economic and social progress in Latin America in recent years, the region continues to exhibit the worst income distribution in the world, with significant levels of poverty and considerable productive heterogeneity, deriving in the deterioration of the labour market and the segmentation of social protection. In this scenario, ECLAC asserts that social equality and dynamic economic growth are not mutually exclusive and invites governments to find the synergies between both and redefine development. To this end, ECLAC proposes growth for equality and equality for growth. In the long-term, equality, economic growth and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand, it says. You can download the complete document "Time for Equality. Closing Gaps, Opening Trails" bit.ly For more information, read the press release of the ... |
