América Latina: Recuperación, oportunidades y agenda de reformas
En 2020, al calor de la pandemia de la COVID-19, la Fundación Iberoamericana Empresarial y la
Fundación Euroamérica, con el patrocinio de CAF, lanzaron una colección de publicaciones de seguimiento
de la evolución económica en América Latina. El cometido de los informes publicados
hasta la fecha1 ha sido acotado y pragmático, centrándose en los efectos económicos de la pandemia
y en la forma en que se podían evitar sus peores escenarios de impacto.
Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services
Critically assessing meanings of the term “public”, this book situates the emergence and expansion of “public services” within market-based forms of production and consumption. It highlights the potential for making public services more progressive within market societies, but underscores their ongoing capture by private interests and emphasises the inherent limits of reform within a “bourgeois public sphere”.
The landscape of B2C e-commerce marketplaces in Latin America and the Caribbean
The digitization of economy, and particularly the e-commerce can encourage innovation and contribute to the process of digital transformation of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) through the implementation of digital technologies and new business models, which can improve the efficiency and productivity of companies beyond its effects on access to new markets.
Report of the First Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean
This document is the official report of the First Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Quito on 22 and 23 November 2022. The Forum was convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Aligning Climate Policy Engagement with Net-Zero Commitments
This paper supports asset owners in assessing the climate policy engagement
approaches of one of their most important strategic partners: their asset managers.
This paper provides key principles to evaluate and engage asset managers on both their
in-house climate policy engagement and on their portfolio stewardship activities regarding investees’ climate policy engagement.
EUROPE – AFRICA RELATIONS IN A MULTI-CRISES WORLD
This report is the outcome of a partnership initiative launched in 2022 by the European Think Tanks
Group (ETTG) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Bureau of Africa.
It follows earlier cooperation on AU-EU relations between the two organisations in 2020 and 2021.
Our partnership has aimed to assess the status of Africa-Europe relations in the follow-up of the
EU-AU Summit in Brussels.
Consumer Loans, Heterogeneous Interest Rates, and Inequality
Using the Brazilian administrative credit registry data with the universe of all
consumer loans originated by banks in the country from 2013 to 2019, we document
high borrowing interest rates, which vary systematically with individual’s
characteristics. In particular, even after controlling for several observable
individual attributes (such as income, occupation, and default probabilities,
low-income), individuals pay higher interest rates than high-income borrowers.
Increasing market acceptance ELTI position paper on the targeted recast of the EU Financial Regulation
On 16 May 2022 the European Commission published a targeted amendment of the EU Financial Regulation, “aiming to strike the right balance by focusing on changes that are really necessary” and included “targeted improvements”, not least on “strengthening the protection of the Union financial interests”.
AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAINS AND TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: OPPORTUNITIES STEMMING FROM THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA
Agriculture is the backbone of the African economy, and a major source of income in African countries (African Development Bank (AfDB), 2016). Fifty-five per cent of jobs in Africa are in the agricultural sector, which generates more than 70 per cent of the income of those living in poverty. However, outdated agricultural practices, the agricultural sector’s vulnerability to climate change and variability, and the continent’s high levels of subsistence farming continue to undermine agricultural productivity. Boosting productivity, which could help address many of the continent’s socioeconomic challenges, including unemployment, entrenched poverty and food insecurity, was therefore identified as a priority area in Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, of the African Union.
Volunteer-based solution for the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development
This is a policy brief, and hence it represents the synthesis of a reflection. The views and opinions expressed in it are those of the authors and is the product of professional investigation. It is not meant to reflect the official policy, position or opinions of IDEP, neither its Member countries nor its staff members. Any errors are the fault of the authors. Copies of papers can be requested from IDEP Library by writing to: Knowledge Management and Library Division, African Institute of Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), Rue du 18 Juin, Dakar, Senegal. Please request papers by number and title.