Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

China and Latin America and the Caribbean Must Advance Together Toward the Digital Revolution, the Green Economy, Job Creation and the Fight against Inequality: ECLAC
Latin America and the Caribbean Reaffirms the Importance of Planning as a Means to Implement the 2030 Agenda
Economic Activity in Latin America and the Caribbean Will Expand 1.2% in 2017 and 2.2% in 2018
Alicia Bárcena, Helen Clark, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Helle Thorning-Schmidt to Serve as Open Government Partnership Ambassadors

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President of Uruguay Will Inaugurate the Second Meeting of ECLAC’s Regional Conference on Social Development

President Tabaré Vázquez will kick off the gathering that will be held on October 25-27 in Montevideo.

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Commemoration in Havana of 40 Years of Advancement of Women’s Equality and Rights in the Region with a Focus on Pending Challenges

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, and Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, led the inauguration of the Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women.

IV Planning Sessions: Sustainable Territories and Cities.

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ECLAC Calls on Countries to Adopt Comprehensive Planning Approaches for Territorial and Urban Development

Experts, academics and decision makers participated today in the IV Planning Sessions: Sustainable Territories and Cities.

XV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Countries of the Region Call for Thinking of Planning as a Space Where Equality and Sustainability Converge

ECLAC’s XV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean was inaugurated today in Lima, Peru.

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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.