Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

A Transformative Recovery after the COVID-19 Pandemic Requires a Global Covenant with Inclusion of Middle-Income Countries in All Forms of Cooperation and Finance
A Feminist Foreign Policy is Needed to Achieve a Transformative Recovery with Equality in the Region: Alicia Bárcena
Labor Markets in the Region Will Be Slow to Recover from the Severe Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020
ECLAC Reaffirms its Commitment to Working with Central American Countries, Mexico, UN Agencies and the Cooperating Community to Implement the Comprehensive Development Plan

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Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary, during her presentation.

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Alicia Bárcena Calls for Reclaiming the Urban Agenda and Conceptualizing the City as an Opportunity and Global Public Good

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated today in the presentation of the global report “Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future,” organized by UN-Habitat and the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.

foto de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL.

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ECLAC Asks for Reconsidering the Criteria to Measure and Classify Development, and Suspending the “Graduations” of Middle-Income Countries During the Pandemic

The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated in a debate on the second day of the 20th session of the United Nations High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation.

Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL.

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Alicia Bárcena Calls for Prioritizing Nature-based Solutions to Protect Ecosystem Integrity and Biodiversity, and Place Value on their Contribution to the Economy and Society

At an event organized by the Regional Office of UNEP and the National College of Mexico, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary urged for changing the development paradigm that has led to overshooting the planet’s limits, with high economic and social costs.

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Reform on the Multilateral Tax Debate is Needed in the Framework of the United Nations: Alicia Bárcena

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated in a session on a new global tax agenda as part of the Jobs Reset Summit organized by the World Economic Forum.

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Publications

Employment Situation in Latin America and the...

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Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the...

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Building forward better: Action to strengthen the...

Financing for development in the era of COVID-19...

Social Panorama of Latin America 2020

The economic autonomy of women in a sustainable...

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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
Examine various public policy issues in the region, adopt regional stances and devise mandates to the secretariat of the Commission.
Treaties
Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Observatories
ECLAC has created different observatories which track the region's economic and social situation.
Building a New Future
Transformative Recovery with Equality and Sustainability