Roundtable for policymakers: Public Policies based on input-output approach

Plenary session on Public Policies based on input-output approach As part of the international input-output 2024 conference, which will take place between July 1 and 5 in Santiago de Chile at the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, a Roundtable for policymakers has been organized in which four experts linked from various points of view will participate, with decision-making linked to policy applications. Some of the applications to review are the signing of free trade agreements, the analysis of the effects of globalization on trade, employment, and economic growth…

30th International Input-Output Association Conference and 12th Edition of the International School of I-O Analysis

Introduction We are delighted to announce that ECLAC, along with the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) will be hosting the 30th IIOA Conference at the ECLAC Headquarters in Santiago, Chile, between July 2 and July 5, 2024. This is a remarkable reflection of the close collaboration by the two global organizations in the development and promotion of methods, statistical data, analytical results, and policy application in the field of input-output. This event is supported by Andrés Bello University, the Central Bank of Chile and the Chilean Foreign Ministry. Moreover, in conjunction w…

First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Santiago, 19 de junio de 2024…

Inter-regional expert meeting on the measurement of South-South cooperation

The inter-regional expert meeting will strengthen South-South cooperation, enhancing its global visibility by leveraging recent developments. It will host high-level debates on integrating and measuring South-South cooperation in future agendas, amplify the global South's voice and introduce a UN project for pilot studies and training on measurement methods.…

Thirty-Seventh Session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC

Digital Trade: Building a Competitive Regulatory Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean

September 21 and 22, 2023 / Hybrid Event / Celso Furtado Room, UN-ECLAC, Santiago / Zoom…

Call for papers - XII REDLAS Conference regional integration in services

Background Services represent approximately two-thirds of GDP and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). However, this sector still represents a small part of the region's exports. Although services include several modern activities delivered by digital means and that are knowledge-intensive (such as telecommunications, computing, software, finance, and various types of creative and business services), most services in the region are traditional, low productivity, and informal. This situation has a negative impact on services exports, slows down the growth of the manufacturing an…

First session of the Regional Conference on South South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Regional Conference was established by virtue of resolution 752(PLEN.36) adopted by the member States of ECLAC at the thirty-sixth session of its Committee of the Whole in December 2021. In that meeting member States approved the renaming of the Committee on South-South Cooperation as the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean.…

JRC/ESTAT – ECLAC Collaboration on FIGARO ACT II

Meeting of the JRC/ESTAT - ECLAC will discuss the collaboration on FIGARO ACT II. FIGARO tables are a new statistical product for economic modelling. Since 2021, they are produced annually, linking national accounts with data on business, trade and jobs for EU Member States and 18 main EU trading partners; a ‘rest of the world’ region completes the FIGARO tables. Date: 30 - 31 March 2023 Location: Seville, Spain Chair: José Manuel Rueda Cantuche Short Agenda: a) FIGARO framework and ECLAC IOTs b) Data collection and transformation process c) Main challenges and problems of assembling…

An in-depth look at the GVC Development Report 2021

The Global Value Chain (GVC) Development Report 2021, the third edition of a biennial series among different partners, explores the long-term trends in GVCs and the factors shaping them. The report breaks new ground by providing an analysis of GVCs beyond manufactured goods, detailing how value-added in GVCs is increasingly generated through intangible products, such as services and intellectual property. The report also highlights that GVCs have proven to be resilient in the face of the challenges posed by the COVID 19 pandemic as well as environmental and geopolitical shocks and sheds light …

Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement on the Triangular Supply Chains of Caribbean Exporters

Before the departure of the UK from the European Union (EU), commonly known as Brexit, third-country exporters faced the same customs union rules for shipping goods both to the UK and the EU. Once entered either in the UK or the EU these goods could freely move within the single market. The Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) between the UK and the European Union, which came into effect in January 2021, has altered these arrangements, affecting the operations of triangular supply chains of ACP countries including 12 Commonwealth members in the Caribbean region. This joint workshop will disc…

Online Course: "Use and interpretation of trade indicators, including Input-Output analysis"

On Friday, December 17th, 2021, the ECLAC Headquarter in Santiago in conjunction with the Caribbean ECLAC Headquarter in Port of Spain gave the Online Course: "Use and interpretation of trade indicators, including Input-Output analysis" for Central Bank economists and trade ministry officials from five Caribbean countries: Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Grenada and Dominica. The workshop was conducted by José Durán Lima, Ira Ronzheimer, Daniel Díaz and Carlos Ludeña of the Regional Integration Unit of the International Trade and Integration …

Thirty-Sixth Session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC

El trigésimo sexto período de sesiones del Comité Plenario ha sido convocado por la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y el Gobierno de Costa Rica, en su calidad de Presidente del Comité Plenario de la CEPAL.…

Extraordinary meeting of the Committee on South-South Cooperation: opportunities for renewed international development cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Extraordinary meeting of the Committee on South-South Cooperation: opportunities for renewed international development cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held virtually on August 19 and 20, 2021.…

Regional Integration for Economic Recovery

As part of the month of Development in Transition: Dialogues to chart new paths for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, together with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission, organized the Event: Regional Integration for Economic Recovery. The panel was attended by a group of high-level officials from international organisations and regional integration mechanisms in the Americas and the Caribbean. The specialists who participated in the event made an urgent call to boost regional integration to achieve a transformative recovery after th…

Expert meeting: EU FACILITY JOINT RESPONSE TO COVID-19: “Fostering sustainable development models in LAC countries”

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) harder than any other region in the world. The region suffered a 7.7% GDP drop in 2020, and over a million lives have been lost. With around 60% of informal workers and 40% of all workers in the region surviving without any form of social safety net before the pandemic hit, the most vulnerable members of society are bearing the brunt of the crisis today. A series of pre-existing development traps, outlined in the Latin American Economic Outlook 2019, have increased the crisis´ toll in the region. As LAC countries chart the pat…

EU FACILITY JOINT RESPONSE TO COVID-19: “Fostering sustainable development models in LAC countries”

The expansion of global value chains (GVC) has opened new opportunities for economies in transition, which seek to expand and diversify their international trade and gain access to new technologies. However, the current pandemic has left the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in a very vulnerable position. Against this background, high-level officials from international organizations and regional integration mechanisms will address the following questions: What is the state of intraregional trade within your integration mechanism? What weaknesses has the pandemic exposed? What oppor…

ECLAC’s participation in the launch of a platform that analyzes Global Value Chains

In recent years, studies on global value chains, which depict how interconnected countries are in terms of trade and production, have multiplied. To contribute to this objective, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) presented the Regional Integration and Value Chain Analyzer (RIVA) tool. This initiative was carried out in collaboration with the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FOCALAE) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). RIVA is an online tool that uses data from the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Multiregional …

Water dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean to accelerate SDG 6

More than 3000 people from different social, economic, and environmental sectors in the region registered for the virtual event co-organized by ECLAC, UNESCO IHP, CONAGUA and the Federal Government of Germany, to exchange information on how to speed up the completion of SDG 6.…

ECLAC participates in the XIV Meeting of National Committees and Focal Points of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (IHP-LAC)

The UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (IHP-LAC) organized the event that took place virtually from April 26 to 29, 2021. This instance convened the Presidents of the National Committees and Focal Points of the PHI-LAC, with the objective to evaluate the results achieved since the last meeting and planning future activities. Silvia Saravia Matus, Economic Affairs Officer of the Natural Resources Division of ECLAC, participated in the session on cooperation with other United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental or…