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Population, territory and sustainable development

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of current trends, contexts and issues in the spheres of population, territory and sustainable development and examine their public policy implications. Three themes run through the report. The first two are laid out in the empirical chapters (III through X); the third is taken up in the closing chapter. Using the most recent data available (including censuses conducted in the 2010s), the first theme describes and tracks location and spatial mobility patterns for the population of Latin America, focusing on certain kinds of territory. The second explores the linkages between these patterns and sustainable development in different kinds of territory in Latin America and the Caribbean. The third offers considerations and policy proposals for fostering a consistent, synergistic relationship between population location and spatial mobility, on the one hand, and sustainable development, on the other, in the kinds of territory studied.

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of current trends, contexts and issues in the spheres of population, territory and sustainable development and examine their public policy implications. Three themes run through the report. The first two are laid out in the empirical chapters (III through X); the third is taken up in the closing chapter. Using the most recent data available (including censuses conducted in the 2010s), the first theme describes and tracks location and spatial mobility patterns for the population of Latin America, focusing on certain kinds of territory. The second explores the linkages between these patterns and sustainable development in different kinds of territory in Latin America and the Caribbean. The third offers considerations and policy proposals for fostering a consistent, synergistic relationship between population location and spatial mobility, on the one hand, and sustainable development, on the other, in the kinds of territory studied.

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60<br />

Figure IV.7<br />

POVERTY IN RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, BY TYPOLOGY<br />

(Percentages of all households in each group)<br />

100<br />

74.4<br />

90<br />

68.3<br />

80<br />

57.1<br />

59.7<br />

70<br />

60<br />

35.5<br />

37.0<br />

43.5<br />

45.1<br />

50<br />

40<br />

31.8<br />

30<br />

14.7<br />

20<br />

10<br />

6.4<br />

9.9<br />

0<br />

Uruguay<br />

Chile<br />

Costa Rica<br />

Brazil<br />

Panama<br />

Mexico<br />

Ecuador<br />

Dominican Rep.<br />

Paraguay<br />

Guatemala<br />

Bolivia<br />

(Plur. State of)<br />

Honduras<br />

Total Agricultural Non-agricultural Multi-activity Transfer-dependent<br />

Source: Economic Commission for Latin America <strong>and</strong> the Caribbean (ECLAC), on the basis of special tabulations of data from<br />

national household surveys conducted in the relevant countries.<br />

a<br />

The numbers above the bars denote the poverty in all rural households.<br />

Figure IV.8<br />

TYPOLOGY OF RURAL ECONOMIES, ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES OF EMPLOYMENT<br />

IN AGRICULTURE AND POVERTY RATE BY HOUSEHOLD<br />

80<br />

70<br />

Traditional agrarian<br />

rural economies<br />

HN<br />

BO<br />

60<br />

GT<br />

PY<br />

Poverty rate in rural households<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

Diversified rural economy<br />

DO<br />

MX<br />

Rural economies<br />

in transition<br />

PA<br />

EC<br />

BR<br />

Mainly non-traditional<br />

rural economies<br />

CR<br />

10<br />

CL<br />

UY<br />

0<br />

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80<br />

Rate of rural employment in agriculture<br />

Source: A. Rodríguez <strong>and</strong> J. Meneses, “Condiciones socioeconómicas y laborales de los hogares rurales en doce países de América<br />

Latina”, paper presented at the forty-eighth Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Management <strong>and</strong><br />

Sociology (SOBER), Campo Gr<strong>and</strong>e, 25- 28 July 2010.

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