Agriculture, rural development, land, drought and desertification: obstacles, lessons and challenges for the sustainable development of Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Review of the development of the transport system in the Caribbean with reference to the establishment of regional institutions and the involvement of aid donors

Includes bibliography

Report of the workshop in Caribbean small and medium-sized enterprises and trade liberalization: challenges of clusters and network initiatives

Includes bibliography

Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Changing Age Structures and Challenges for the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Istmo Centroamericano: el carácter de la crisis económica actual, los desafíos que plantea y la cooperación internacional que demanda = Central America: nature of the present economic crisis, the challenges it raises and the international co-operation for which it calls

Incluye Bibliografía

Challenges in meeting the monitoring requirements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): an examination of selected social statistics for four Caribbean small island developing states

Includes bibliography

Challenges in implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for further implementation of the Small Islands Developing States Programme of Action (MSI) in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Main challenges of social development in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

The economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: Paradoxes and challenges of sustainable development

The robust growth of Latin American and Caribbean economies in recent years has led to an improvement in economic and social conditions in the region. It has also had collateral negative effects, however, such as more air pollution in urban areas and a serious deterioration of various natural assets, including non-renewable resources, water resources and forests. There are economies and societies within the region that are highly vulnerable to all sorts of adverse impacts of climate change, and whose production structures and consumption patterns still tend to leave a large carbon footprint. This situation has reached the point of undermining the foundations of the region’s economic buoyancy. Latin America and the Caribbean therefore needs to make the transition in the years to come towards a sustainable form of development that will preserve its economic, social and natural assets for future generations and leave them with a legacy of a more equal, more socially inclusive, low-carbon form of economic growth. Viewed from this standpoint, the climate change challenge is also a sustainable development challenge, and if it is to be addressed successfully, a global consensus that recognizes the asymmetries and paradoxes of the problem will have to be reached..