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Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Antigua and Barbuda

26 - 30 May 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Grenada

19 - 23 May 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…

Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2025 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum

26 - 27 March 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

25 - 29 November 2024 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…

Virtual Expert Group Meeting on Human Capital Formation in the Caribbean

11 November 2024, 07:00 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Labour productivity has been on a declining trend in the Caribbean. An examination of this trend revealed a growing concern of skills mismatch in the labour market. At the same time, youth unemployment is high in many countries, with young women and girls twice as likely not to be in education, employment or training. These are troubling signs for human capital formation at a time when Caribbean economies are experiencing low growth, and the global economy is becoming increasingly knowledge based.…

An Introduction To CGE Modeling focus upon trade and tax policy

7 - 8 October 2024 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

An Introduction to CGE Modeling is designed to introduce fundamental concepts and practices of tax and trade policy assessment. The primary tool used is Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling. The workshop will be a brief introduction to the practice of economic impact analysis, and a presentation of how CGE models are used to provide evidence-based analysis for Caribbean countries. The presentations will explain standard economic theory behind general equilibrium and will provide examples of CGE applications for tax policy and international trade analysis.…

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Saint Kitts and Nevis

8 - 12 July 2024 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…

The MonCom Seminar: Positioning the Caribbean in the knowledge economy: The role of data

1 - 2 November 2023 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

CDCC member countries and associate members will convene for the twenty-first meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee. This is preceded by the MonCom Seminar. This year's theme Positioning the Caribbean in the knowledge economy: The role of data…

Thirty-ninth session of ECLAC

24 - 26 October 2022 | Event (Sessions of the Commission)

The thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will be held from 24–26 October 2022, at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires, pursuant to resolution 753 (PLEN.36), adopted at the thirty-sixth session of the ECLAC Committee of the Whole, held in New York on 3 December 2021. The meeting will be held in accordance with the ECLAC calendar of conferences for the period 2021–2022.…

Seventh meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

12 - 13 October 2022 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Seventh meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable - The Caribbean: Recovery and Repositioning in the context of COVID-19 and beyond The Caribbean Development Roundtable will bring together regional and international development thinkers and practitioners, leaders and senior policymakers from ECLAC member States and associate member countries, representatives of the UN System, regional and international financial institutions, academia, and civil society, including the private sector, as well as other development partners. All are invited to contribute to the discussions. (Meeting documen…

High-level meetings on the ECLAC Caribbean Resilience Fund

26 - 29 July 2022 | Event (High-level visits)

The Caribbean Resilience Fund (CRF) is an innovative mechanism to leverage absolutely necessary finance for development while simultaneously reducing the growing and onerous debt burden. In-depth discussions will address the main elements of the CRF; its structure, participation and governance. This will include reflection on optimal housing of the CRF and scope for capitalization of the Fund. The meeting will also explore important next steps for initiating debt swap negotiations.…

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

13 July 2021, 04:30 - 06:15 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

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.…

Big Push for Sustainability

26 May 2020, 12:00 - 14:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe das Nações Unidas (CEPAL) vem desenvolvendo o Big Push para a Sustentabilidade, que é uma abordagem renovada para apoiar os países da região na construção de estilos de desenvolvimento mais sustentáveis, baseada na coordenação de políticas para promover investimentos transformadores desses estilos. Em 2019, foi realizada a Chamada Aberta de Estudos de Casos de Investimentos para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável no Brasil, pela CEPAL em parceria com a Rede Brasil do Pacto Global e o Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), com o apoio d…

India – Latin America and the Caribbean Conclave

28 - 29 November 2016 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), supporting the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and in cooperation with the Ministry of External Affairs of India, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and the Government of Jalisco, is organizing the Seventh India-Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Conclave in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 28 and 29 november 2016. Between India and Latin America and the Caribbean, there are important linkages in terms of trade, foreign direct investment and the potential for south-south cooperation. The growting economic relationship…

Seminar: Economic Integration in Central America and its productive dimension: challenges and opportunities to foster regional development

3 November 2016, 05:30 - 15:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Los objetivos de la Reunión son: Analizar la integración productiva de la región y los retos y oportunidades que ésta presenta para el proceso de integración regional. Analizar información relevante sobre la evolución económica reciente de la región, particularmente en los temas de comercio, inversión y crecimiento. Promover un debate informado sobre las oportunidades y desafíos de Centroamérica para fortalecer la integración económica e impulsar con ello, el desarrollo humano y bienestar de su población. Contribuir a la formación de opinión pública informada y estimular el diálogo social y p…

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

2 December 2014, 08:00 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

On Tuesday 2 December 2014, ECLAC will release its development overview of the region's economy in 2014 and growth projections for 2015. Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary, will give a press conference at the Commission headquarters in Santiago, Chile, which will take place at 11:00 a.m. and be broadcast live on the institution's Website. This panorama is part of the annual report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014, to be published shortly.…

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

4 August 2014, 06:00 - 07:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

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…

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