Latin America: finding a path to the post pandemic recovery relying on the global 2030 agenda

Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) belongs to the regions where Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus pandemic has become a true disaster. As estimated, the 8.4% of the world's population accounted for 27.8% of Covid-19 deaths. The pandemic burst forth in a complex economic, social and political scenario of low growth, rising poverty and growing social tensions, leading to a multidimensional crisis. As a result of the steep economic recession, the region’s GDP declined by 9 per cent in 2020. ECLAC estimates that the total number of poor people rose to 209 million by the end of 2020, this means that the poverty rate affected 33.7% of the population. Experts do not hide the fact that such consequences have jeopardized the implementation of the SDGs on most of the targets, primarily on “decent work and economic growth”, poverty reduction, achieving “good health” and “quality education”, and reducing social inequality. In the fight against the pandemic, Latin American governments tried to apply international experience, using measures acceptable in the LCA conditions in relation to displacement and isolation, health, education and social protection. On March 2021, dealing with priority tasks of recovery, Commission reiterates the need of big push for sustainability based on the core elements of the 2030 Agenda. This article aims to evaluate the main measures taking by Latin American governments to tackle the Covid-19 spread, as to analyze the action strategy proposed to them by the international think tanks. To achieve the goal set in the article, the author considered the latest reports of ECLAC, the World Bank and Inter-American Bank, the United Nations Development Program, etc. Digital databases regarding the current situation of key aspects of the SDGs in the LCA region was also tracking. An attempt was also made to compare the Latin American trends with the ongoing transformations in other parts of the planet. The author concludes that the incorporation of the SDGs into national plans to overcome the consequences of the corona crisis is justified in the conditions of Latin-Caribbean America, however, it requires closer interregional cooperation.