Latin America and the Caribbean

The term Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is an English-language acronym referring to the Caribbean and Latin American region. The term LAC covers an extensive region, extending from The Bahamas and Mexico to Argentina and Chile. The region have over 670,230,000 people as of 2016, and spanned for 21,951,000 square kilometres (8,475,000 sq mi).

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24 July 2024 English

Africa, so when the UNHCR notes that 42% of the world’s new asylum seekers come from Latin America and the Caribbean, it underlies the dramatic human cost and the high level of insecurity that people and

UNHCR, because of criminal violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, 42% of the world’s new asylum seekers development and to economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. And the International Monetary Fund new asylum applications came from Latin America and the Caribbean” (emphasis added). At the risk of underlining number should be surprising since Latin America and the Caribbean are not seeing major wars, civil wars world’s new asylum seekers come from Latin America and the Caribbean, it underlies the dramatic human cost


IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 23 July 2024 English

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[Effects of climate change on coastal Latin America and the Caribbean: Impacts]”, Comisión Económica para development in Latin America and the Caribbean]”, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)


CWS: Church World Service · 19 July 2024 English

Idania*, a 36-year-old Central American woman, is traveling with her 8-year-old son and is one of the families forcibly evicted from Plaza Giordano Bruno in the Juárez neighborhood of Mexico …


SEACEN Research and Training Centre · 18 July 2024 English

liabilities, and US$208 billion. [...] Of which 24 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 23 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 21 in Africa, 20 in Asia, and 13 in the Middle East and North Africa.

Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 23 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 21 in Africa, 20 in Asia, and 13 in


UNDP: United Nations Development Programme · 17 July 2024 English

The 2nd Global Progress Report on SDG16 Indicators represents a unique and pivotal UN inter-agency effort toward supporting the realization of the 2030 Agenda. This report reveals critical trends that, …

resulted in the highest homicide rate in Latin America and the Caribbean while Africa has emerged as the region organized crime more prevalent than in Latin America and the Caribbean, the region with the highest homicide Europe and Northern America and 20 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Information remains more limited of robbery in the 15 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean with available data, at 5.0 percent Northern America (2 percent) than in Latin America and the Caribbean (1.6 percent) or in other regions (1


Australian Human Rights Commission · 17 July 2024 English

And so this is a really important event because it underscores how we still need you know the legal structures in place to ensure that all of these efforts coalesce …

in the Asia-Pacific region, and in Latin America, and the Caribbean, and Western Europe, and so forth


IADB: Inter-American Development Bank · 17 July 2024 English

This Poverty and Equity Assessment aims to inform efforts to reduce poverty and inequality at what could be an important turning point for Suriname. The assessment was written as Suriname …

Power (Koopkracht Versterking) LAC Latin America and the Caribbean M&E Monitoring and evaluation MICS the period from 1960 to 2019. LAC: Latin America and the Caribbean. Suriname’s high dependence on natural on par with that of the average for Latin America and the Caribbean and other upper-middle-income countries Caribbean small states and the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean. And while GDP per capita in the Caribbean Caribbean small states and the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean had more than recovered by 2022, this


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 July 2024 English

IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members' plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the …

six members targeted 15 measures. In Latin America and the Caribbean, six members targeted nine measures TPR questions Both 43% Europe 14% Latin America and the Caribbean 5% Middle East 5% Asia 33% AsiaIISD


World Bank Group · 17 July 2024 English

Edition and named the best PPP in Latin America and the Caribbean by the IFC. It enjoys high public


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 17 July 2024 English

Sociocultural globalization and environmental globalization have a positive impact on human development at the individual level.

Globalization Effects on Gender Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Globalization and the Myths of


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