Webinar on Measurement of the digital economy and trade in Latin America and the Caribbean

UN ECLAC, in collaboration with the IMF’s Statistics Department and UNCTAD. Context: The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of Latin America’s economy and trade. This region has been among the fastest growers of e-commerce worldwide, albeit at low levels, while exports and imports of digitally enabled services have also expanded. These trends and transformations pose serious measurement challenges, hindering policy formulation, monitoring, and evaluation. In this context, this webinar addresses conceptual and practical aspects related to measuring the digital economy and trade…

FEALAC’S Trade Facilitation in the context of the Digital Economy

In the framework of the annual FEALAC Working Group Meeting on “Trade, Investment, Tourism and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina co-organized the seminar "FEALAC’s Trade Facilitation in the context of the Digital Economy". The seminar aimed to find ways to improve regional connectivity among FEALAC member states and to nurture business capabilities of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in a digital economy. The meeting focused on the analysis of value chains and th…

Technical workshop on “Value chain development for deeper integration of FEALAC: Asian perspectives”

The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is organizing a technical Workshop from 10 to 11 July 2019, UNCC, Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop is part of the collaborative project between ESCAP, ECLAC and ADB in a project aiming to enhance value chain integration between Asia and Latin America. The workshop will gather policy analysts, researchers and policymakers working in Asia-Pacific member states of FEALAC. The purposes of the workshop are to review the study in intraregional value chains development and to identify emerging opportunities and challenges facing Asia-…

CORPYME Training workshop: Trade Single Windows for the Internationalization of SMEs

This training workshop will take place at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile on May 13th, 2019. It is part of the CORPYME project, which is an action plan sponsored by the Republic of Korea and implemented by ECLAC to strengthen the capacities of countries to promote the internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), through a more intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and export innovation. This workshop has three objectives: a) present the advances and challeng…

Meeting of International Cooperating Partners in Support of the Deep Integration Process of the Northern Triangle Countries

In December 2014, the Governments of the Republics of Guatemala and Honduras announced their willingness to advance in the deepening of the economic integration process, in accordance with the provisions of the Central American legal instruments. The investment for the establishment of the Customs Union model between Guatemala and Honduras began in 2016, and the Customs Union between Guatemala and Honduras was officially launched on June 26, 2017. In 2018, El Salvador signed the Adhesion to the Process of Deep Integration towards the Free Transit of Goods and of Natural Persons between the Rep…

The role of the entrepreneur in Latin American Integration

The Secretariat of the Andean Community (CAN) in coordination with the Chamber of Commerce of Lima is organizing the International Seminar: "The Role of the Entrepreneur in Latin American Integration" whose final objective is to open a space for entrepreneurs to express their concerns and proposals on regional integration. The event will cover topics such as the improvement of the Free Trade Zone from the business perspective; the facilitation of trade in customs matters; the elimination of non-tariff barriers in intra-CAN trade; and the advances and opportunities in land transport and th…

2nd Academic Seminar of the Latin America and Asia Pacific Observatory: Exploring spaces for productive integration between Latin America and Asia Pacific

International Seminar. Facilitating the Effective Integration of Developing Countries into the Global Economy through programs of Aid for Trade

Caribbean consultation: Optimizing the benefits of trade and regional integration for the Caribbean

Interregional Forum of the Development Account Project "Facilitating the Effective Integration of Developing Countries in the Global Economy through Aid for Trade Schemes"

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.…

Expert Meeting: "Facilitating the Effective Integration of Developing Countries into the Global Economy through Aid for Trade"