First International Forum on Global Value Chains

How to Integrate, Benefits, Opportunities and Potential Sectors …

6th Regional Meeting on Public Policy Analysis With Computable General Equilibrium Models

The 6th Regional Meeting is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with the collaboration of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Universidad del Pacífico.…

Special meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development

Second Meeting of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Chile: Seminar Promoting Financial Inclusion through Development Bank Innovation Policies

The Seminar is part of a greater ECLAC project whose aim is to promote the development of a greater array of financial instruments that would allow development banks to boost the financial inclusion of the SME sector, given that SMEs play a central role in the productive fabric and job creation in the regional economies. More specifically, the project centers on the state of financial inclusion in seven Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru) and on the policies that development banks could pursue in order to promote financial inclusion. The…

Fifth Workshop of the Latin American and Caribbean Network on the Environmental Footprint of Coffee

On October 17 and 18, 2017, the Fifth Workshop of the Latin American and Caribbean Network on the Environmental Footprint of Coffee was held in Lima, Peru, seeking to incorporate environmental sustainability as a factor in export competitiveness.…

Sixteenth Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning

La XV Conferencia de Ministros y Jefes de Planificación de América Latina y el Caribe y la XVI Reunión del Consejo Regional de Planificación (CRP) del Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social (ILPES) tendrán lugar en la ciudad de Lima, del 11 al 13 de octubre de 2017.…

Seminar on Export Promotion Policies in Asia and Latin America

The objective of the seminar is to make a comparative analysis of export promotion policies in Asia and Latin America. Prof. Yukiko Fukagawa of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan will present on export promotion policies in Asian countries, ECLAC will present the experience of Latin America, and representatives of ProChile and SOFOFA will discuss the experience of Chile.…

Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The fifty-sixth meeting of the Presiding Officers was held from 5 to 6 October 2017 in Havana, Cuba.…

Cities Conference: Implementing the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

One year on from Habitat III, the Cities Conference focused on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean for inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities.…

Study Tour for officials and policy makers from Latin America to Thailand’s SME Bank and the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives

The purpose of this study tour is to provide officials and policy makers from Latin America the opportunity to learn first-hand how two important Thai national development banks, the SME bank and the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), are enhancing the access of small and medium enterprises in Thailand and exchange views and experiences on the subject.…

Thailand: Workshop on small and medium enterprises’ access to finance and the role of development banks in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is implementing a project on financial inclusion in various Latin American countries with the goal of identifying and promoting the development of a wide range of financial instruments that would allow development banks to foster financial inclusion of SMEs. Within the scope of the project, ECLAC will participate in a workshop on small and medium enterprise (SME) financing and the role of development banks in Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America, organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCA…

VI REDLAS Conference: Trends and Perspectives for Production and Trade in Services in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Latin American and Caribbean Network on Services Research -REDLAS- (www.redlas.net) is a network of research groups and individuals actively involved in service trade research and policy formulation. REDLAS members come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and they are mostly part of universities and research institutes, while others are employed in governments, international organizations and the private sector. The VI REDLAS Conference will discuss topics such as new niches of services based on automation, trade negotiations, public policies and Public and Private Partnership to p…

Workshop on population projections in Latin America. Methodologies and future challenges

This training workshop is intensive, and will be taught in Spanish for a duration of 4 hours and will be held in the morning as a parallel event to the XIV Argentine Conference on Population Studies and I International Congress on Population in the Southern Cone. During the workshop, the methodology used in the CELADE and the United Nations Population Division will be introduced to prepare population estimates and projections. As well as, the experience of the countries in the preparation of population estimates and projections at the sub national level, and the future challenges of the proces…

Interagency meeting on implementation of road safety measures in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Organized by ECLAC and PAHO…

Latin American and Caribbean regional preparatory meeting of international migration experts on the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration

The aim of the meeting will be to generate inputs that the governments will use in negotiations on the global compact.…

Workshop on Economic Analysis Using Input-Output Matrices

A workshop on Economic Analysis Using Input-Output Matrices was held from August 23 to 25, 2017 in Quito, Ecuador. The workshop reviewed fundamental methods in the analysis of input-output matrices and integrated practical examples to support the work of public officials in the countries of the Andean Community (CAN). Participants in the workshop included public officials from central banks and statistical institutes of the countries of the Andean Community, as well as officials from various institutions in Ecuador (Central Bank of Ecuador, Ministry of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Tourism, Natio…

Launch of the South American and Andean Subregional Input-Output Matrix

On August 23, 2017, as part of the 90-year celebration of the creation of the Central Bank of Ecuador, ECLAC presented the South American Input-Output Matrix for 2005 and the Andean Subregional Input-Output Matrix for 2005 and 2011 in Quito, Ecuador. These tools will enable policymakers and analysts to identify productive chains and analyze the effects of changes in the final demand for goods and services on production and employment. During the event, the Central Bank of Ecuador presented the Ecuadorian Social Accounting Matrix for 2007 and 2014.…

Redatam workshop on Database creation and development of Redatam web applications for data processing and dissemination

This is an intensive hands-on training and will be conducted in Spanish. The course will have duration of 72 hours during nine days. It is aimed at professionals, technicians and users in general with experience and knowledge in data management and processing and ideally with some knowledge of Redatam. This workshop is part of the technical advisory activities that CELADE-Population Division continuously provides to national institutions related to the use and dissemination of sociodemographic and sectoral information, especially population census and surveys. During the workshop the process o…

Peru: Latin American and Caribbean seminar promoting financial inclusion though development bank financial innovation policies

ECLAC and the Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE) are co-organizing a seminar to promote financial inclusion of SMEs through development bank financial innovation policies.…