Latin America & the Caribbean

Publications

Democratic governance | Millenium Development Goals | Poverty reduction

Democratic governance

Democracia/Estado/Ciudadanía: Hacia un Estado de y para la Democracia (in Spanish)
This book is a continuation of the discussion initiated with the publication of UNDP’s Report on Democracy in Latin America: Towards a Citizen’s Democracy. It centers the debate on the necessity to rethink the State as a challenge of the first order in the advancement of democracy throughout the region

Millenium Development Goals

Ethnicity and the Millenium Development Goals (en inglés)
This publication concentrates its analysis on ethnicity, exploring the situation of indigenous and afro descendant people in terms of poverty, educational achievement and gender equality.

Meeting the Millennium Poverty Reduction Targets in Latin America (2002)
A first report was prepared for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Brazilian Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA) by a team of experts.

The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective
The purpose of this report is to clarify the method used to identify and quantify the progress made by the Latin American and Caribbean region and the challenges that remain to be met.

Regional Report on the achievement of the MDGs in the Caribbean Community
The study identifies broad trends relevant to the achievement of the MDGs at the regional level and highlights issues deriving from the peculiarities of the Caribbean Community which comprises a large number of small island developing countries.

Poverty reduction

Crecimiento con Equidad: El Combate contra la Pobreza en Centroamerica (2005 - in Spanish)
This book analyzes what causes poverty and inequality in the six Central American countries: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panamá.