One of the major social advances achieved in the last years has been the advances made for the effective equality between men and women. But, this March 8, the International Women’s Day, is marked by the threat of significant regressions in this area.
Rubalcaba warns that the adjustment policies, the liberalizations and privatizations of the Washington consensus which were implemented in Latin American in the 90s and are intended to be transferred to the EU “only brought about unemployment, inequities and social unrest”
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During the plenary session of political leaders of the I Latin American Progress Conference organized by the IDEAS Foundation, Zapatero affirmed that globalization “is already our play ground and we must work to make it multipolar and not unipolar, which China, India the USA, Europe and Latin America playing the role of regional leaders.”
Madrid, March 2, 2012
Increase the quality of education, especially at low levels, undertake productive model structural reforms so that the GDP growth is not solely based on the exploitation of natural resources, invest in R&D and strengthen redistributive social policies are the challenges facing Latin America in order to continue growing in a sustainable way.
Madrid, March, 1 2012