Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Alicia Bárcena: “The Eradication of Poverty is a Moral Imperative for our Societies”
Alicia Bárcena: “Today more than ever, cooperation must be promoted and expanded on multilateral bases”
ECLAC Expresses Solidarity and Offers Support to Caribbean Countries Affected by Storms
ECLAC Advocates for the Combined Use of Traditional Statistics and Big Data for Measuring SDGs

News

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary.

Press Release

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis: “A favorable macroeconomic environment is essential to attaining inclusive growth”

The Chilean economist delivered the XV Prebisch Lecture today at ECLAC’s headquarters in Chile, where he was received by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the UN regional organization.

The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, with ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena.

Press Release

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Gave Keynote Lecture at ECLAC

Andrew Holness advocated for greater integration among the countries of the Caribbean and Latin America and gave his backing to the Caribbean debt relief proposal presented by the organization.

Ambassador Juan José Gómez Camacho, Co-facilitator of the intergovernmental consultations and negotiations on the global compact on migration; Louise Arbour, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for International Migration; Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary; and Laura Thompson, Deputy Director General of the IOM.

Press Release

ECLAC and IOM Host Preparatory Meeting on the Global Compact for Secure, Orderly and Regular Migration

The meeting’s opening session was headed by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary; Louise Arbour, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for International Migration; Ambassador Juan José Gómez Camacho, Co-facilitator of the intergovernmental consultations and negotiations on the global compact on migration; and Laura Thompson, Deputy Director General of the IOM.

From left to right: Peter Sauer, Minister-Counselor from the German Embassy in Chile; Marcos Barraza, Chilean Social Development Minister; Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary; and Laís Abramo, Director of ECLAC’s Social Development Division.

Press Release

Strengthening Social Institutionality is Fundamental for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Authorities and international specialists participate in a seminar inaugurated on Monday at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

More news

Statistics

More data at CEPALSTAT

Publications

More publications

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Centred on sustainable development and based on equality as an aim and as an ethical principle.
Subsidiary bodies and Intergovernmental meetings
Permanent intergovernmental bodies of ECLAC and other intergovernmental meetings that examine various public policy issues in the region, adopt regional stances in their respective areas of competence and devise mandates to the secretariat of the Commission.
Observatories
ECLAC has created different observatories which track the region's economic and social situation.
Horizons 2030: Equality at the centre of sustainable development
ECLAC proposes a new pattern of development through structural change based on equality and an environmental big push.