La desigualdad se soluciona con empleos productivos: Alicia Bárcena
Alicia Bárcena, secretaria ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), nos habla en esta entrevista de la importancia para América Latina de aprender de las lecciones de empresas internacionales en la extracción de recursos naturales, y dice: "La única forma de salir de la desigualdad es con empleos, empleos productivos, empleo con derechos, empleo de buena calidad y eso es responsabilidad social".
Hablamos con Bárcena durante la reunión anual del BID en Calgary, Canadá, en donde moderó el panel "Inversiones del sector privado y desarrollo socialmente responsable de los recursos naturales".
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