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“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…
The ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will launch the flagship publication Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean.…
ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena launches the flagship report: “Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014”.…
This international seminar was carried out at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, on 11 and 12 June 2014 and has the support of the Regional Delegation for Cooperation in the Southern Cone and Brazil, Embassy of France. Current standards of environmental sustainability in industrialized countries and some examples of public-private partnerships from agricultural sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean will be reviewed. These experiences provide tools seek to implement strategies to climate change, and calculate and mitigate the environmental footprint of food. …
This international seminar takes place at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, on 3 and 4 June 2014 and has been organized jointly by UNCTAD and the CAF.…
The Interregional Forum was attended by representatives of the five participating Regional Commissions as well as relevant stakeholders including experts from the respective regions, development partners, and selected focal points of participating projects.…
The objetives of the seminar were as follows: a) To present experiences microdata crossing customs with other data sources (such as domestic tax, social security, census, directories and surveys) in some countries in the region to improve the classification by size and exporting deepen characterization of exporting SMEs; b) Meet the databases in some countries in the region that could be used to explore their potential. …
Organized by UNCTAD, in collaboration with ECLAC, SELA and the University of Chile. This Dialogue aims to bring together stakeholders from different countries and regions within LAC and various development partners and donors to (i) exchange views on the topic of promoting services sector development and trade-led growth, and (ii) identify elements of a LAC agenda relating to policy-making and trade negotiations in services.…
Organized by UNCTAD/Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).…
This workshop organized jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the University of Adelaide’s Institute for International Trade (IIT), with the generous financial support of the Australian Government’s Overseas Aid Program (AUSAid). The workshop, held at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago from 26 to 28 March 2012, brought together experienced trade negotiators from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the eleven member countries of the Arco del Pacífico Latinoamericano group.…
This seminar held on December 5, 2011 in Buenos Aires, was organized by ECLAC and the Government of India, included the presence of R. Viswanathan, Indian Ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay y Paraguay; Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes, Secretary General of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR); Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Senior Director and Head of Latin America at the World Economic Forum (WEF); Embajador Horacio Salvador, Director General of International Economic Negotiations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina; and Osvaldo Rosales, Director, Division of International Trade and Integrati…
This Latin American and Caribbean Regional Conference on Trade and Employment is part of the ongoing International Collaborative Initiative on Trade and Employment (ICITE), supported by a number of leading international organizations, including the OECD, ILO, WTO, UNECLAC, IDB and the World Bank. This regional conference aim to: 1) Take stock and expand the range of empirical and institutional analyses on the relationship between international integration and labor markets, 2) Promote dialogue and exchange of relevant literature among stakeholders, and 3) Inform policy-makers and the public of…
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