XXXVII REGIONAL SEMINAR ON FISCAL POLICY

The XXXVII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy is organized by the Executive Secretary of theEconomic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) through the EconomicDevelopment Division. It is sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International DevelopmentCooperation (AECID) and supported by the IDB Group, the Organization for Economic Cooperationand Development (OECD), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).…

PTLAC and South Centre

PTLAC-South Centre Webinar on Illicit Financial Flows and its relevance in the context of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation…

XXXV Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy

The XXXV Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy is organized by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through the Economic Development Division. It is sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).…

Regional technical workshop on tax expenditures

This workshop was organized by ECLAC at its Subregional Headquarters in Mexico, with the support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany. The objective of the meeting was to engage in a technical exchange between authorities and international organizations on tax expenditures and provide tools to strengthen their design, measurement, and accountability. As part of the workshop activities, an ECLAC report was presented on the measurement of tax expenditures in Latin America. At the o…

XXXIV Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy

The XXXIV Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy is organized by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through the Economic Development Division. It is sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).…

European Union facility joint response to COVID-19: Fostering sustainable development models in LAC countries - Fiscal policies to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and foster investment for a sustainable recovery

This Experts Meeting will provide a space for a regional dialogue among country authorities, international organizations and fiscal experts to discuss domestic resource mobilization and public spending issues to reduce structural gaps, as well as to explore policy options to expand fiscal space to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and boost investments for a sustainable and inclusive recovery.…

Twenty-eighth Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy

Authorities and experts will analyze fiscal policy challenges in times of economic deceleration. The XXVIII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, organized by ECLAC, will be held March 16-17, 2016.…

FOURTH IBERO-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON LOCAL FINANCE - UPDATE: Presentations, videos and audios available for download

The IV Ibero-American Conference on Local Finance will be held on 1 and September 2, 2015 in the headquarter of ECLAC, Santiago de Chile.…

Launch of the Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014

On Monday 4 August, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014, in which it will update its growth estimates for the region's countries this year. The annual report, which is one of the flagship documents of this United Nations regional commission, will be launched at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, by its Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, at a press conference scheduled for 11.00 a.m. The Economic Survey 2014 analyses the economic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean during…

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