Regional preparatory process for Latin America and the Caribbean

In the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Meeting Preparatory to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which was held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, from 7 to September 9 2011, countries agreed to a joint conclusion.…

Latin American and Caribbean Labor Markets and the Global Economy

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…

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

Tenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

The tenth meeting of the Executive Committee will review the status of implementation of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2009-2011; of resolution 6 (V) adopted by the Conference at its fifth meeting; and of the agreements adopted by the Executive Committee at its ninth meeting. At its tenth meeting, the Executive Committee will also review the operating modalities of the working groups of the Conference in order to propose measures aimed at strengthening their achievements. In addition, the Executive Committee must decide upon the preliminary agenda…

Forty-fifth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Los días 6 y 7 de diciembre se realiza en Santiago la XLV Reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe. La reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia reúne a las delegaciones de los países miembros de la Mesa Directiva. Esta reunión se lleva a cabo para identificar las prioridades de los gobiernos de los países y de la Secretaría de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer con miras a cumplir los acuerdos adoptados en el Consenso de Brasilia, celebrados durante la undécima Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer. La inauguración de la Reuni…

Regional Meeting of the National Transfers Account Project in Latin America and the Caribbean - Cuba

Havana, Cuba; as part of the IV congress of the Latin American Population Association (ALAP)…

Third Ministerial conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

En el Marco de la eLAC, en febrero de 2008, ​se llevó a cabo la Segunda Conferencia Ministerial sobre laSociedad de la Información de América Latina y del Caribe, en la ciudad de San Salvador, República de El Salvador, Durante este evento, el Gobierno del Perú ofreció dar continuidad al proceso de la eLAC y celebrar la Tercera Reunión Ministerial de la Sociedad de la Información de América Latina y el Caribe en el Perú, en 2010.…

XI session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The eleventh session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was convened by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in compliance with ECLAC resolution 658(XXXIII) and was held in Brasilia, from 13 to 16 July 2010. …

Sub-regional meeting Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean

Representatives of national mechanisms for the advancement of women and national statistical offices of the Caribbean countries met in Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia with representatives of ECLAC, CARICOM, INSTRAW, PAHO, UNFPA and UNIFEM, and discussed the progress made and challenges faced by the Caribbean countries to obtain statistical information on the Observatory's strategic indicators.…

Thirty-third session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The thirty-third session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was held in Brasilia, from 30 May to 1 June 2010. By resolution 643(XXXII), adopted at the thirty-second session of ECLAC (Santo Domingo, 9-13 June 2008), member States agreed that Brazil would be the host country of the meeting. The session is the most important event of each biennium for ECLAC. It provides a forum for the consideration of issues of importance for the development of the countries of the region and an opportunity to review the activities of the Commission.…

Committee on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the thirty third session of ECLAC

The ECLAC secretariat presented for consideration by delegations the report on the activities of the ECLAC system to promote and support South-South cooperation during the biennium 2008-2009, which examines the characteristics of South-South cooperation and multilateral assistance channelled through the United Nations.…

ECLAC Special Committee on Population and Development: Chile 2010

The ECLAC Special Committee on Population and Development held its meeting on 12-14 May 2010 at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago.…

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

Ninth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

The ninth meeting of the Executive Committee will be concerned with follow-up to the implementation of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2009- 2011, resolution 6 (V) adopted by the Statistical Conference of the Americas at its fifth meeting. In particular, at its ninth meeting, the Executive Committee will have a mandate to review and approve the programmes of work of the working groups for the period 2010-2011. It will also have the opportunity to review forthcoming goals and tasks related to major international statistical cooperation activities, su…

Twenty-third session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Fourteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development And Cooperation Committee

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean convened the fourteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) at its headquarters in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 8 September 2007. The meeting was attended by representatives of the following CDCC member countries: Belize, Cuba, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. The participating associate member was the United States Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands attended in an observer capa…

Substantive issues: Seminar on the 2010 census round

Esta reuni'on se realiza bajo el marco de la Quinta reunión de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la CEPAL…

Seminar on the development of national statistical systems: recent experiences, learning and assessment

This meeting is held under the framework of the Fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC…

Fifth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

Forty-third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and Caribbean

The meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Trinidad and Tobago by the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs. At this, their forty-third meeting, the Presiding Officers examined the main challenges identified by member countries as part of the preparatory process for the eleventh session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, scheduled to be held in Brasilia in 2010. The member countries and observers attending the meeting also had the opportunity to take stock …