Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

<p>The Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was established at the Thirty-fifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held in Lima in 2014, as one of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission with a view to contributing to the progress of political and social development activities of the region.</p>…

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

“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)…

Caribbean technical meeting on proposals for sustainable development goals within the context of the post-2015 development agenda

ECLAC subregional headquarters is strongly supporting the regional effort to identify among the sustainable development goals (SDGs), those representing the most crucial development challenges facing the Caribbean, with a view to consolidating support and action towards addressing them.…

ECLAC regional workshop on the development of REDATAM applications for the dissemination of census data

A team drawn from ECLAC’s subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the regional headquarters in Santiago, Chile will be holding a training workshop to support the statistical offices of Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, and Barbados in the development of web-based applications for the dissemination of national census data.…

XII Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo entitled: "Transformations in centre-periphery relations and their impact on development in Latin America and the Caribbean"

XI Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Danilo Astori entitled: "Innovation Is Essential for Increasing Productivity and Improving Competitiveness in Countries"

Tenth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by José Antonio Ocampo entitled: "Economic Growth is, above all else, a Process of Structural Change"

Ninth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Aldo Ferrer entitled: "Development and Globalization: Prebisch's Approach Today"

VIII Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Fernando Savater Martín entitled: "A Historical Look at ECLAC in its Era"

Seventh Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Tulio Halperin Donghi entitled: "A Historical Look at ECLAC in its Era"

Sixth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Enrique V. Iglesias entitled: "The return of the State in development strategies"

Fifth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Dani Rodrik entitled: "Policies for Economic Diversification?"

Fourth Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Rubens Ricupero entitled: "The contemporary relevance of Prebisch: placing international trade at the service of development"

Third Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Fernando Henrique Cardoso entitled: "Beyond the economy: interactions between policy and economic "

Second Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Joseph Stiglitz entitled: "Whither Reforms? Towards a New Agenda for Latin America"

First Raúl Prebisch Chair, dictated by Celso Furtado entitled: "The Roots of Globalization"