Programa de Cooperación CEPAL-GTZ: memoria anual marzo 2007-marzo 2008

Incluye Bibliografía

An assessment of fiscal and regulatory barriers to deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in Guyana

Includes bibliography.

Modernización portuaria: una pirámide de desafíos entrelazados

Modernización portuaria: una pirámide de desafíos entrelazados. Así se titula curso presentado por la Unidad de Transporte de la CEPAL en una serie de países en cuatro continentes, con la participación de autoridades ministeriales y portuarias, transportistas, exportadores, importadores y sindicalistas.

Measures for controlling traffic congestion

Traffic congestion has become a severe scourge in large cities, in both the industrialized and developing countries. Increasing demand for urban transport and transit has led to longer travel times, and a greater incidence of accidents, environmental problems and deterioration in the quality of life than is considered acceptable for citizens. A multidisciplinary approach is required in order to keep the negative effects of congestion under control and to ensure standards of living remain sustainable. In view of the seriousness of the problem, ECLAC with the support of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) is carrying out a project to study measures that contribute to traffic control. As part of this project, initiatives regarding the supply of, and the demand for, transport have been examined, and a programme to disseminate information is being conducted.For further information, please contact Mr Alberto Bull .

Port modernization: a pyramid of interrelated challenges

This is the name of the course presented by ECLAC's Transport Unit in range of countries in four continents for ministerial and port authorities, transport companies, exporters, importers and trade unions.

Traffic congestion: the problem and how to tackle it

As the culmination of a project financed by the Technical Cooperation Agency of the Federal Republic of Germany (GTZ), ECLAC has just published Congestión de tránsito - El problema y cómo enfrentarlo, Cuadernos de la Cepal series, No. 87. The text of 194 pages analyses the negative impacts of congestion and the multidisciplinary efforts that are needed to keep it under control, through the design of appropriate policies and measures. Congestion control is part of the development of a strategic vision of how a city should develop which can make it possible to harmonize the needs of mobility, growth and competitiveness, which are so necessary today and in the future, with the sustainability of cities and the improvement of their quality of life.The task is complex and it is not easy to find appropriate solutions. The present publication presents tools for tackling this crucial problem. Everything indicates that it calls for high professional and leadership qualities on the part of the authorities, and that it must have the active support of the citizens.This edition of the Bulletin presents a summary of the main conclusions of the publication and it is stressed that ECLAC can conduct local workshops to analyze the problem and how to tackle it.

ECLAC contributes with new workshops towards the goal of easing traffic congestion

A number of cities in Latin America played host to workshops on measures for reducing traffic congestion, as part of efforts to publicize the results of a project recently completed by ECLAC, and which received support from the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). Congestion is beginning to pose a threat to the quality of life of the cities of the region; the most obvious manifestation of this congestion is the increase in daily travel time, especially in peak hours.The workshops are a contribution to efforts to curb congestion, since they help foster awareness of the extent of the negative consequences generated by the phenomenon, and are a means of publicizing options for dealing with it. This edition of the Bulletin outlines the contents of the workshops and their results. The workshops are offered to urban authorities and other institutions interested in training staff employed in positions involving traffic management.

Third ordinary meeting of the conference of South American ministers of transport, communications and public works

The third ordinary meeting of the Conference of South American Ministers of Transport, Communications and Public Works was held from 6 to 8 November 1996 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela took part. Representatives of the following organizations were present as observers: the Latin American and Caribbean Federation of National Associations of Cargo Agents, the Latin American Railways Association, the Latin American Association for Automated Highway Transport, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Road Federation/German Agency for Technical Cooperation (IRF/GTZ); and other representatives from both the private and public sectors.

Energy efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and challenges of the past five years. Executive summary

The present document analyses the progress of national programmes and activities associated with the promotion and development of energy efficiency between the years 2008 and 2013 in the 27 Latin American and the Caribbean member countries of the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE). The new study is based on the original report —prepared by ECLAC and OLADE between July 2008 and July 20091— taking into consideration any progress made over the past four to five years, an interval long enough to justify an update both of the current status of energy efficiency and its prospects, developments and challenges in the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Formación para el trabajo: ¿pública o privada?

La formación profesional, definida como un bien público de apropiación privada, desdibuja la primitiva dicotomía del título del presente volumen de Cinterfor/OIT. América Latina esconde, bajo la aparente unidad de su denominación, a un continente. Esto es, un vasto espacio donde se entremezcla una abigarrada trama de diversas relaciones sociales, culturales, históricas, políticas, geográficas y económicas. El resquebrajamiento de los dos conceptos vertebrales que reúnen los trabajos que aquí se presentan permite que asome una heterogeneidad imposible de ocultar pero que se quiere común. Estructuras dínamicas, complejas y modernas coexisten con sectores atrasados, y aun marginados, resistiéndose a la simplificación. Habilidades básicas, caliicaciones y competencias no son meras palabras: reflejan la realidad de un continente que se desarrolla inarmónicamente en un proceso, político y económico, que desborda el campo de la formación profesional.

Planificación para el desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe: regreso al futuro. Primer informe de los diálogos ministeriales de planificación

Incluye bibliografía.

Innovación sustentable: espacios para mejorar la competitividad de las PYMES argentinas

Incluye bibliografía.

El sistema contributivo de pensiones como locus de rivalidad y de un nuevo pacto social en Chile

En este estudio se realiza un diagnóstico del sistema contributivo de pensiones en Chile y se formulan algunas recomendaciones de reforma, desde una perspectiva de derechos sociales que generan expectativas de satisfacción: el objetivo primordial de un sistema de pensiones es proveer seguridad del ingreso en la vejez y las pensiones contributivas deben reflejar el ahorro realizado a lo largo de la vida laboral para garantizar que, a niveles semejantes de esfuerzo, se obtendrán protecciones similares o proporcionales.