SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Government Secretary of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, says the LAC must comprehensively handle at the least 5 elements underlying social inequality within the area.
Addressing the inaugural fourth Regional Seminar on Social Growth on Social Safety and Inequality, titled “Social Safety and Inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean in the direction of the Second World Summit for Social Growth of 2025,” Salazar-Xirinachs mentioned the international locations within the area might begin by growing financial progress via new-generation productive improvement insurance policies.
The convention, which ends on Thursday, has introduced collectively social improvement, social inclusion, labor ministers from the area, different authorities officers, lecturers, and specialists.
This system factors up thematic panels, three keynote speeches, and three facet occasions.
“As now we have been saying, Latin America and the Caribbean are in a improvement disaster manifested in three traps: one involving low capability for progress; one other, excessive inequality and low social mobility and social cohesion; and a 3rd involving weak institutional capability and ineffective governance.
“This regional seminar seeks to delve deeper in assessments and proposals for breaking away from the core causes that decide, specifically, the entice of excessive inequality and low social mobility,” Salazar-Xirinachs mentioned.
In response to the UN official, inequality has been central to ECLAC’s pondering and reflections for over 75 years.
“Inequality not solely goes towards primary ideas of social justice, it’s inefficient for progress and corrosive to social cohesion and the soundness of social compacts.”
Salazar-Xirinachs mentioned the 5 elements that the area should urgently handle to scale back inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean embody the productive heterogeneity that characterizes the area’s international locations and doesn’t enable for creating high quality employment for almost all of the inhabitants, the persistence of regressive tax programs, and limited-scope social and social safety insurance policies.
He mentioned the still-insufficient protection and low high quality of training, gender inequality, and the discrimination towards and violations of the human rights of indigenous, Afro-descendent, and different inhabitants teams are additionally among the many elements.
“Low and mediocre progress charges make it very tough, to not say not possible, to advertise productive transformation, scale back poverty, scale back informality, create high-quality jobs, and generate fiscal income for impactful social insurance policies.
“All of this factors to productive improvement insurance policies being a part of the answer to productive heterogeneity as a reason behind earnings inequality, insurance policies that might invigorate progress and scale back the main variations in productiveness between sectors, that would scale back productive dualism and stimulate a structural shift in manufacturing and employment in the direction of sectors and firms with greater productiveness,” Salazar-Xirinachs mentioned.
The regional occasion additionally featured remarks by Manfred Haebig, Principal Advisor of the ECLAC-BMZ/giz Cooperation Programme; Laura Oroz Ulibarri, Director of the Directorate of Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean on the Spanish Company for Worldwide Growth Cooperation (AECID); and Ximena Andión, Deputy Director on the Ford Basis’s Mexico and Central America Workplace.
“I hope that this Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Growth will contribute to evaluation, debate, and alternate in order that the area’s international locations can design and implement public insurance policies to assist make the triple transition within the digital, ecological, and socioeconomic realms, leaving nobody behind,” Manfred Haebig mentioned.
Laura Oroz Ulibarri mentioned, “The strategic partnership between AECID and ECLAC, which is already 30 years previous,” and she or he introduced that in a brand new part of this collaboration, they are going to search to contribute to strengthening the social, institutional framework within the area to advertise social cohesion insurance policies centered on equality and the efficient enjoyment of rights.
Ximena Andión of the Ford Basis additionally expressed appreciation for “the collaborative work now we have achieved with ECLAC lately as a result of ECLAC is an establishment that has at all times been on the forefront of discussions on inequality.” She agreed that this subject “runs North and South, very prominently affecting all of the world’s international locations, which suggests we should proceed analyzing it from totally different views.”
President of the United Nations Financial and Social Council (ECOSOC), Paula Narváez, in an handle, urged convergence among the many varied multilateral processes underway which are centered on selling social improvement on the earth.
“The Second World Summit for Social Growth, which might be held in 2025, is a crucial pillar in our collective efforts to create an impetus that might speed up progress on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth,” she mentioned.
The primary day of the regional seminar additionally featured the presentation of the ebook Non-contributory Pension Methods in Latin America and the Caribbean: In direction of Solidarity with Sustainability, edited by Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of ECLAC’s Social Growth Division, and Claudia Robles, a Social Affairs Officer from the identical Division, within the framework of the ECLAC-BMZ/giz venture entitled “Transformative reactivation: overcoming the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
“That is the primary ebook revealed by ECLAC to completely concentrate on the research of non-contributory pension programs within the area. That is elementary as a result of these programs represent a primary pillar for reaching common, complete, sustainable, and resilient social safety programs. As well as, these programs are important for reaching inclusive social improvement,” Salazar-Xirinachs mentioned.
In response to the publication, non-contributory pension programs have skilled a outstanding improve within the cove, or simply over a million individuals, to cowl 31 p.c of this inhabitants in 2022, or almost 20 million individuals. In 2022, solely 5 international locations within the area wanted one of these system.
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