The 2030 Agenda is crucial for Latin America. It can break development traps and turn them into opportunities.

The SDGs in Latin America

Margarita Beneke de Sanfeliú explains how the SDGs give the region a common framework to work in. It helps create “national”, rather than “government” plans.

Challenges of implementation

It is urgent to increase awareness among policymakers and other stakeholders in the region that achieving the SDGs requires sustained efforts that span beyond government terms. The goal should be to identify what each country needs and what factors prevent them from escaping the development traps. Current hurdles include: 

The challenge of building a shared development vision for Latin America

In the last two decades, poverty and inequality in Latin America have decreased. As a result, the middle class has grown in size. And with it, expectations. Read article

Margarita Beneke de Sanfeliú

Director

Margarita is the Director of the Center for Research and Statistics at FUSADES. Her current interests are women´s economic empowerment, labour market, youth, and social programs’ evaluation. She can be reached at msanfeliu@fusades.org.

Andrea Rodríguez

Researcher

Andrea is a researcher at the Center of Research and Statistics (FUSADES). Her areas of interest are entrepreneurship and innovation, and women’s participation in society.

Stephanie Milan

Researcher

Stephanie is a development and policy economist, is a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Statistics at FUSADES,  and her research interests are in gender, education and labour. 

Marjorie Trigueros

Senior Researcher

Marjorie is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Legal Studies at FUSADES with experience in international trade, democratic institutions, state modernization and competitiveness.