Compacts for equality
Subtitle: towards a sustainable future : thirty-fifth session of ECLAC, Lima, 5-9 May, 2014
By: coordinated by Alicia Bárcena
Contributors: CEPAL (Conference) (35th : 2014 : Lima, Peru)
Publisher: United Nations, ECLAC; United Nations Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Santiago, Chile?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789211218503
Subjects: Income distribution; Sustainable development; Consumption (Economics); Economic conditions
Work titles: Pactos para la igualdad. English
Description: Discusses the two major challenges to development in Latin America and the Caribbean today: to achieve greater equality and to make development sustainable for future generations. The various chapters examine the social, economic, environmental and natural resource governance constraints on sustainability, as well as the challenges associated with strategic development options. They also further explore the equality approach developed by ECLAC at previous sessions, treating the world of work as a key arena. Consumption is analysed as it relates to the economic, social and environmental spheres, highlighting its potential to increase well-being as well as its problematic externalities in terms of environmental sustainability, the fiscal covenant and the production structure, among others. The dynamics existing between production structures and institutions are explored, drawing attention to ways in which the efficient organization of institutions can help to maximize contributions to development. The document concludes with a set of medium- and long-term policy proposals that need to be enshrined in social covenants and policy instruments for implementing, in a democratic context, the policies and institutional reforms that the Latin American and Caribbean countries need to resolve the dilemmas they face at the current crossroads.
Notes: Presented by ECLAC to the States members at the thirty-fifth session of the Commission and completes a trilogy of volumes along with Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails (Brasilia, 2010) and Structural change for equality: an integrated approach to development (San Salvador, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references.