The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean
The COVID-19 pandemic is a disaster that combines a biological threat with various vulnerabilities, such as the organizational and response capacity of health systems, overcrowding, informality, social work practices, and public transport. The human and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are...
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oai:dspace6-d1:11362-46732 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean COVID-19 VIRUS EPIDEMIAS MEDIO AMBIENTE DESASTRES NATURALES RIESGO CONDICIONES ECONOMICAS CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO POLITICA FISCAL POLITICA SOCIAL SALUD BIENESTAR SOCIAL EMPLEO IGUALDAD DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE COOPERACION REGIONAL MODELOS DE DESARROLLO AGENDA 2030 PARA EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE COVID-19 VIRUSES EPIDEMICS ENVIRONMENT NATURAL DISASTERS RISK ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMIC GROWTH FISCAL POLICY SOCIAL POLICY HEALTH SOCIAL WELFARE EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT MODELS 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The COVID-19 pandemic is a disaster that combines a biological threat with various vulnerabilities, such as the organizational and response capacity of health systems, overcrowding, informality, social work practices, and public transport. The human and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented. According to World Health Organization (WHO) figures, by November 2020 it had caused more than 18 times more deaths than all the epidemics that took place in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1970 and 2019. For the first time since records began, all the countries of the region have seen their economies contract at the same time, destroying jobs and driving up poverty and inequality. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the cracks in the existing development pattern, and revealed its limitations, around the world, but particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. The pandemic has hit at a time when a development model with serious structural flaws has been the norm: growing inequality, high labour informality, weak and fragmented institutions —especially those related to social protection— and production and business structures with limited technological capabilities that are concentrated in sectors which depend on static comparative advantages, such as natural resources and low wages. Governments have taken health, social and economic measures to address the emergency and reduce the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable. Most of the countries in the region have made notable efforts, considering their reduced fiscal space. However, in addition to short-term relief, there must be a response to structural problems. The goal cannot be to reinstate the previous development pattern, but to move towards a new one. After the emergency has passed, a renewed commitment is needed, to move towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the central principles of which are increasingly relevant: the need for a sustainable development model and the interdependence of its social, environmental and economic dimensions. Foreword by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) .-- Foreword by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction .-- Introduction .-- I. Socioeconomic effects of COVID-19 on the Caribbean .-- II. Towards a systemic approach to disaster risk in the Caribbean .-- III. Challenges, opportunities and recommendations for a risk-informed recovery and development in the Caribbean. 2021-03-19T11:38:03Z 2021-03-19T11:38:03Z 2021-03-19 Texto Documento Completo http://hdl.handle.net/11362/46732 en .pdf application/pdf AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ECLAC UNDRR |
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean COVID-19 VIRUS EPIDEMIAS MEDIO AMBIENTE DESASTRES NATURALES RIESGO CONDICIONES ECONOMICAS CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO POLITICA FISCAL POLITICA SOCIAL SALUD BIENESTAR SOCIAL EMPLEO IGUALDAD DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE COOPERACION REGIONAL MODELOS DE DESARROLLO AGENDA 2030 PARA EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE COVID-19 VIRUSES EPIDEMICS ENVIRONMENT NATURAL DISASTERS RISK ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMIC GROWTH FISCAL POLICY SOCIAL POLICY HEALTH SOCIAL WELFARE EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT MODELS 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT |
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean |
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean |
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean |
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean |
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coronavirus disease (covid-19) pandemic: an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the caribbean |
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COVID-19 VIRUS EPIDEMIAS MEDIO AMBIENTE DESASTRES NATURALES RIESGO CONDICIONES ECONOMICAS CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO POLITICA FISCAL POLITICA SOCIAL SALUD BIENESTAR SOCIAL EMPLEO IGUALDAD DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE COOPERACION REGIONAL MODELOS DE DESARROLLO AGENDA 2030 PARA EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE COVID-19 VIRUSES EPIDEMICS ENVIRONMENT NATURAL DISASTERS RISK ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMIC GROWTH FISCAL POLICY SOCIAL POLICY HEALTH SOCIAL WELFARE EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT MODELS 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT |
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a disaster that combines a biological threat with various vulnerabilities, such as the organizational and response capacity of health systems, overcrowding, informality, social work practices, and public transport.
The human and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented. According to World Health Organization (WHO) figures, by November 2020 it had caused more than 18 times more deaths than all the epidemics that took place in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1970 and 2019. For the first time since records began, all the countries of the region have seen their economies contract at the same time, destroying jobs and driving up poverty and inequality. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the cracks in the existing development pattern, and revealed its limitations, around the world, but particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The pandemic has hit at a time when a development model with serious structural flaws has been the norm: growing inequality, high labour informality, weak and fragmented institutions —especially those related to social protection— and production and business structures with limited technological capabilities that are concentrated in sectors which depend on static comparative advantages, such as natural resources and low wages.
Governments have taken health, social and economic measures to address the emergency and reduce the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable. Most of the countries in the region have made notable efforts, considering their reduced fiscal space. However, in addition to short-term relief, there must be a response to structural problems. The goal cannot be to reinstate the previous development pattern, but to move towards a new one. After the emergency has passed, a renewed commitment is needed, to move towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the central principles of which are increasingly relevant: the need for a sustainable development model and the interdependence of its social, environmental and economic dimensions. |
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