El apoyo de la CEPAL a los censos de población y vivienda de la década de 2010

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Population, territory and sustainable development: Summary

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Population, territory and sustainable development

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El apoyo de la CEPAL a los Censos de 2010

Contratistas, cambios tecnológicos y organizacionales en el agro argentino

Hasta no hace muchos años, en Argentina, la tenencia de la tierra era casi una condición suficiente para la producción agrícola. En los últimos años, el crecimiento en las cantidades obtenidas de granos, se ha dado en el contexto de una nueva forma de organización, donde son muy importantes otros factores productivos (capital –maquinarias-, capacidad empresarial), nuevos insumos (semillas transgénicas, nuevos agroquímicos y fertilizantes) y donde la tecnología que ambos tienen incorporada se potencia en agentes que acumularon un importante stock de conocimiento tácito. Más que por quién usa la tierra, el eje pasa por cómo la misma se utiliza. Los cambios tecnológicos y organizacionales tienen mucho que ver en la expansión agrícola argentina de las últimas décadas. Relacionado con estos factores e insumos, se destacan nuevos y remozados actores que, en conjunto con los productores y los eslabonamientos con la industria y los servicios, conforman y trabajan en forma de red (Bisang y Kosacoff, 2006). Como aporte a la descripción de este fenómeno, el objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar uno de esos protagonistas: los prestadores de servicios o contratistas. Se plantea como hipótesis que los cambios tecnológicos evidenciados en el agro fueron, en parte, canalizados hacia los productores por un actor (contratistas) que, especializado en la tenencia de un factor productivo (maquinaria), conjuga capacidad empresarial y financiera, necesidad por aplicar los cambios tecnológicos junto con conocimiento tácito, mayor posibilidad de diversificar el riesgo agropecuario y estrechas relaciones con el resto de los actores (dueños de la tierra, Centro de Servicios, etc.). A lo largo del trabajo se resume la interacción histórica entre los contratistas y la agricultura como una forma de caracterizar a estos empresarios y resaltar los aspectos que han influido en su expansión, convirtiéndolos en una peculiaridad de la agricultura argentina. Este repaso ofrece claros indicios sobre la hipótesis planteada -luego confirmados con información estadística- que, además, permite medir el peso de estos actores en la economía y su evolución reciente.

Censos y población indígena en México: algunas reflexiones

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Natural disasters workshops

.--Natural Disasters Workshops-Preamble.--Natural Disasters Workshops-Introduction.--Natural Disasters Workshops-Background.--Natural Disasters Workshops-The Methodology.--Natural Disasters Workshops-The Workshops.--The Y2K Caribbean Census.--Education and It's Impact on Poverty.-- Poverty in the Caribbean.-- Accessing Quality Education.--Impact of Education on Poverty.--Education and Poverty-The way forward.-- ENDNOTES for Education and Poverty Article.--ECLAC Experts Meeting on Maritime Transport.-- Introduction-Maritime Meeting.-- rationale for the Meeting.-- Highlights of the Experts Meeting.--The way Forward.-- Abstracts of Documents recently published by ECLAC.

Report of the regional workshop on microdata documentation and dissemination (IHSN Toolkit)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted a week-long Regional Workshop on Microdata Documentation and Dissemination. The workshop, which was funded by the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the Twenty-First Century (PARIS21) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), was held at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from 26 to 30 April 2010. The main objective of the workshop was to provide training to member States on the Microdata Management Toolkit. This toolkit was developed by International Household Surveys Networks (IHSN) to assist in the documentation, dissemination and preservation of household survey, census and microdata in accordance with international standards and best practices. The training was organized in response to numerous requests by directors of statistics in the region for the development of capacity in that area. It was specifically timed to meet the training needs of those offices ahead of the 2010 round of Population and Housing Censuses.

Socio-demographic analysis of youth in the Caribbean- a three country case study

Many Caribbean youth are doing reasonably well. They live in loving and caring families, attend school and are involved in various social activities in their communities. The health and well-being of the children and youth1 in the Caribbean is, and has been, the centre of attention of many studies, meetings and policy directives set at the regional, subregional and national levels. Programmes have been put in place to address the basic needs of young children in the areas of health and education and to provide guidance and directives to youth and adolescents in the area of professional formation and transition to adulthood. Critical issues such as reproductive health and family planning combined with access to education and information on these topics have been promoted to some extent. And finally, the Caribbean is known for rather high school enrolment rates in primary education that hardly show any gender disparities. While the situation is still good for some, growing numbers of children and youth cannot cope anymore with the challenges experienced quite early in their lives. Absent parents, instable care-taking arrangements, violence and aggression subjected to at home, in schools and among their friends, lack of a perspective in schools and the labour-market, early sexual initiation and teenage pregnancies are some of those issues faced by a rising number of young persons in this part of the world. Emotional instability, psychological stress and increased violence are one of the key triggers for increased violence and involvement in crime exhibited by ever younger youth and children. Further, the region is grappling with rising drop-out rates in secondary education, declining quality schooling in the classrooms and increasing numbers of students who leave school without formal certification. Youth unemployment in the formal labour market is high and improving the quality of professional formation along with the provision of adequate employment opportunities would be critical to enable youth to complete consistently and effectively the transition into adulthood and to take advantage of the opportunities to develop and use their human capital in the process. On a rather general note, the region does not suffer from a shortage of policies and programmes to address the very specific needs of children and youth, but the prominent and severe lack of systematic analysis and monitoring of the situation of children, youth and young families in the Caribbean does not allow for targeted and efficient interventions that promise successful outcomes on the long term. In an effort to assist interested governments to fill this analytical gap, various initiatives are underway to enhance data collection and their systematic analysis2. Population and household censuses are conducted every decade and a variety of household surveys, such as surveys of living conditions, labour force surveys and special surveys focusing on particular sub-groups of the population are conducted, dependent on the resources available, to a varying degree in the countries of the region. One such example is the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)-funded Multi-Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) that assess the situation of children and youth in a country. Over the past years and at present, UNICEF has launched a series of surveys in a number of countries in the Caribbean3. But more needs to be done to ensure that the data available is analyzed to provide the empirical background information for evidence-based policy formulation and monitoring of the efficiency and effectiveness of the efforts undertaken.

Proyecciones de población de cinco países sudamericanos: comparación con América Latina

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