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The Power of Entrepreneurship: Women Transforming the Region with Courage and Vision

Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) are the engine of the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, representing more than 99.5% of the formal…

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Blog
Data in the Clouds, Centers on the Ground: The Role of Data Centers in LAC’s Digital Future

This #GraphForThought uses data from the Data Center Map -a database tracking data center locations worldwide- to explore how Latin America and the Caribbean …

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Youth and Regional Alliances: Innovating for the Future of Youth Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean

In an increasingly interconnected and challenging world, SDG 17 plays a key role in promoting regional partnerships that strengthen the implementation of the…

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From Vulnerability to Resilience: Innovating Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

The event aims to present and promote UNDP’s comprehensive social protection services offer for the Latin America and Caribbean region, and to highlight the…

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Placing Poverty at the Heart of the Conversation

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) made significant progress in reducing poverty until the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, when this trend…

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Our focus is to help countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean region build and share solutions in their sustainable development pathways, with inclusive and effective democratic governance, building climate and disaster resilience.

In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights, capacity development, knowledge and experience-sharing and the empowerment of women.

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Regional Human Development Report 2021

Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of great contrasts, where wealth and prosperity coexist with vulnerability and extreme poverty. The list of contrasts is long and familiar. The region is also characterized by very volatile and low average growth, explained by low productivity. This Regional Human Development Report argues that the region is caught in a trap of high inequality and low growth. These two phenomena interact in a vicious circle that limits the ability to advance on all fronts of human development. Understanding the nature of the trap is critical to breaking free from it.

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UNDP LAC Working Paper Series

This series aims to disseminate research in progress relevant to advancing our understanding of complex development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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UNDP LAC Policy Documents Series

This series aims to draw from UNDP's own global experience and knowledge and from the expertise and capacity of our partner think tanks and academic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to promote a collective reflection on the region's development challenges.

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UNDP LAC Policy Notes

The purpose of the UNDP LAC Policy Notes series is to make visible the work carried out by our offices in the region.

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Graph For Thought

Graph For Thought is a series of technical articles that shows data illustrating how different economic, social or environmental problems are taking shape in the region.

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Learning from Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Learning from Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean is a thematic knowledge brief series jointly developed by the UNDP's Regional Bureau for LAC and the UNDP Accelerator Labs

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A Better World for Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean

This book is the result of a joint research initiative between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to improve the welfare conditions of migrants in LAC and contribute to facilitating their assimilation into society through information and influence in policy design.

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Development Futures Series

Analysis and practical insights for the future of sustainable development

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Dialogues

Reimagining our Future in Latin America and the Caribbean

A series of talks and dialogues that will take place throughout 2025. Policy Dialogues and Democracy & Development Talks will take place on a monthly basis with the aim of bringing together global events and local perspectives engaging experts, decision-makers, and UNDP partners, in collaborative, evidence-based debates.

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Stories

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Stories
The Power of Entrepreneurship: Women Transforming the Region with Courage and Vision

Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) are the engine of the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, representing more than 99.5% of the formal…

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Towards Beijing +30

This March 8, we share UNDP initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean that, in line with the 12 areas of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, seek to drive…

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Innovation in Brazil’s Judiciary Brings Families Together Through Adoption

Discover the stories of three families united through Brazil’s National Adoption and Foster System (SNA), modernized under the Justice 4.0 Program, a partnership…

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Towards a democracy with and for youth in Latin America

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The voices of the youth, for the people and the planet

In Latin America and the Caribbean, just over 140 million people are young, and nearly a third of them (39%) live in poverty, a figure that increases in rural…

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Poverty and Inequality Funding Window

UNDP has been a strategic partner of national governments, donors, and international financial institutions in the development of social protection systems in…

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Roadmap for transgender inclusive social protection and poverty alleviation programmes in Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica

Transgender and gender-diverse individuals in Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica face significant barriers in accessing social protection and essential services. This…

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Low-emission transport to achieve the Paris Agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean

This study aims to take stock of the progress in meeting national climate commitments in the transportation sector for 20 countries in Latin America and the…

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Toward a Regional Approach to Social Protection

This paper analyzes a regional approach to social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), grounded in the universal principle that all individuals…

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Governance for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

A year ago, CAF and UNDP decided to join forces around a shared agenda on the interdependence between governance and development in Latin America and the…

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