Social Innovation for the Sustainability

Items tagged with LATIN AMERICA

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Impact of microfinance on the SDGs in Ecuador. The case of Banco Solidario

Adrián Blanco Estévez, Teresa Sánchez Chaparro, Julia Urquijo Reguera

Financial inclusion has the potential to make an important contribution to reducing poverty and inequality. However, there are still more than 1.7 billion people in the world without access to these services. 

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THE GLOBAL COMPACT FOR MIGRATION IN LATIN AMERICA: ON THE BRINK OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

Elena Sánchez-Montijano

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted migration systems globally. In this framework, and particularly, the effects on migration in Latin America are of great magnitude in different dimensions. In this text we ask precisely about this, about the effects of the pandemic on migration in the Latin American region and how these are linked to the lack of national and regional alignment with the Global Compact for Migration. 

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Evolution of Sustainable Finance in Latin America and The Caribbean

Carolina Yazmín López García

The Latin American and Caribbean region has been experiencing major advances in Sustainable Finance. In this sense, the main advances in each country will be analyzed, as well as their main regulations, where UNEP FI has provided its support over the years.