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5 - 9 May 2025 | Event | Meetings and technical symposiums
National capacity building workshops in statistical analysis
The overall objective of the training is to strengthen the skills level of policymakers and technical officers of the Government of Grenada in statist...
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8 May 2025, 09:00 - 17:30 | Event | Meetings and technical symposiums
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15 May 2025, 09:00 - 12:00 | Event | Meetings and technical symposiums
Accelerator Session at the World Circular Economy Forum 2025
The event "Measuring progress and promoting circularity through public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean" is organized by ECLAC, UNOSD, UN-D...
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24 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00 | Event | Meetings and technical symposiums
Side Event Presentation of the document "Education and the development of digital competences in Latin America and the Caribbean"
The objective of the event is to deepen the debate on effective strategies to reinforce the school-to-work transition of future generations in order t...
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Macroeconomics for development: from "financierism" to "productivism"
22 December 2010 | Fact sheetFact sheet. Macroeconomics for development: from "financierism" to "productivism"…
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Global economic developments, 2000-2001
2 January 2002 | PublicationExecutive Summary The global economy is experiencing a recession, which originated in the United States and is affecting developed and developing economies alike. Between the second and third quarter of 2001, the United States GDP growth rate decreased from 2.6 per cent to 1.2 per cent. For the same period, the European Union's GDP growth rate declined from 2.4 per cent to 1.7 per cent. For Latin America and the Caribbean the growth will fall from 4 per cent in 2000 to 1 per cent in 2001. A central issue regarding the current recession is whether it will be short lived or rather …
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Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean
30 November 2018 | PublicationOn 4 March 2018, the Latin American and Caribbean region made history when it adopted the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, at Escazú, Costa Rica. The Regional Agreement is a ground-breaking legal instrument for environmental protection, but it is also a human rights treaty. Its main beneficiaries are the people of the Latin American and Caribbean region, particularly the most vulnerable groups and communities. It aims to ensure the right of all persons to have access to information in a ti…
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Gender Equality is not only Fair but also Indispensable for the Region’s Sustainable Development
30 July 2018 | Press ReleaseMaking progress on women’s autonomy and gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean is not just a matter of social justice – it is also an indispensable factor for the sustainable development of the region’s countries, ministers of women’s affairs, specialists and international officials emphasized today while participating in the fifty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The meeting, which will conclude on Tuesday, July 31, was inaugurated on Monday by Alicia Bárcen…
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Analysis and responses of Latin America and the Caribbean to the effects of COVID-19 on food systems N° 2
11 May 2020 | PublicationThe purpose of this bulletin, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the valuable collaboration of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is to support member countries in mitigating the various effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural societies, agriculture and food systems. This bulletin provides decision-makers in government, the private sector and civil society with useful information and resources to support the design and implementation of actions to combat the effects of the pandemic in Latin America and the Car…
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Accelerating Implementation of the Buenos Aires Commitment is an Opportunity to Improve the Lives of Women, Adolescents and Girls
Region's Countries Seek Participation of All Citizens in Environmental Issues
See photo gallery (6 November 2012) Representatives from the 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries that are signatories to the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development - which states that environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens - opened a meeting at ECLAC today to agree on new actions to apply this Principle in the region. At the meeting, which will be held until Wednesday 7 November, government delegates will make progress towards defining a roadmap for the 2012-2014 biennium in matt…
Implementation of the recommendations from the evaluation of the role of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Caribbean subregion
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* { text-align: justify; } Home Historical Projects Caribbean project RESULTS REPORT OF THE CARIBBEAN PROJECT Results of Assessment of Satisfaction and Improvements of Caribbean Project Final Report - Project to Strengthen Spatial Data Infrastructures in Member States and Territories of the Association of Caribbean States Central America Project Central America Project The project on Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information in Central America is financed by the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH), led by the…
ECLAC Will Present in Mexico its Report on the International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2018
Update of Redatam7
CELADE - Population Division of ECLAC announces to all REDATAM users an update of Redatam7 that includes improvements and new functionalities in the Create, Process and Admin modules.…
Preliminary overview of Caribbean economies 2005
ICT and knowledge management-based solutions to tackle multi-island challenges uncovered at ECLAC meeting
The adoption of e-governance and knowledge management solutions would increase the availability, quality and accessibility of public services and reduce delivery costs in multi-island States and territories across the Caribbean. This, according to experts in the field of information communication technologies (ICTs) and knowledge management (KM), who convened for an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. Held at ECLAC Caribbean headquarters on 03 October 2019 in Port of Spain…
Decentralization, territorial transfers and local development
Concerted action by political, social and private actors at the local level can be very useful for promoting economic competitiveness, but in order for it to become a reality it would be essential for the local communities to have greater autonomy and resources, as well as equal opportunities. This article begins by investigating the conditions required in order to ensure that the deeper political decentralization needed for local development will promote efficiency and equity, as well as the ways in which transfer systems can become decisive means for increasing equity and generating greater …
Emigration of nurses from the Caribbean: causes and consequences for the socio-economic welfare of the country, Trinidad and Tobago: a case study
The paper will examine the migration of nurses in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States over the last 50 years, focusing on the situation in Trinidad and Tobago. It will make an attempt to assess the scope of nurse migration by drawing on data available in Trinidad and Tobago as well as in the two main destination countries, the United States and the United Kingdom. The main push factors triggering this mass exodus in the homeland and the various counteracting strategies adopted will be presented. To capture the whole picture, the different pull factors in the receiving countries …
Port Report 2022–first quarter of 2023: The calm after the storm?
Shipping transports around 80% of global trade in goods by volume, and 70% by value (ECLAC, 2023). Global supply chains suffered unprecedented distortions, first as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, declared in March 2020, and then with the outbreak of the war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022. Maritime transport has clearly played a major role in international trade in recent decades, particularly since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The Infrastructure Services Unit of the Economic Commission for Latin America and th…
Fourteen Countries Sign New Generation Agreement at UN Headquarters on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters
Fourteen Latin American and Caribbean countries were the first to sign the “Escazú Agreement” on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters, at United Nations headquarters in New York, in the context of the 73rd session of the general debate by the world organization’s General Assembly. The historic Regional Agreement, the first environmental treaty of Latin America and Caribbean and the only of its kind in the world to emerge from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Río+20), will be available as of today for signature by any State th…
Compiling national accounts, balance-of-payments and foreign trade statistics in the framework of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) health emergency
In the context of the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is preparing a series of short publications with relevant policy recommendations for this period. This note includes several recommendations for the continued collection of information linked to national accounts, balance-of-payments and foreign trade statistics.…
