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II Regional Dialogue "Policies for MSMES and competition to face the crisis and promote economic reactivation"

25 March 2021, 08:00 - 10:45 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

UNCTAD and ECLAC have joined forces in responding to the COVID19 crisis by holding a regional dialogue on the role of Competition Policy in supporting the economic recovery of MSMEs post COVID-19. During the regional dialogue, participants will discuss on the following topics: 1. Policies to support MSMEs in the pandemic and economic recovery in Latin American countries and the dimension of competition policy. 2. Discussion of national reports on Brazil and Mexico on the Analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on MSMEs and the role of competition policy. 3. Debate with governmen…

CORPYME: Hacia una infraestructura digital para promover la internacionalización de las pymes

24 - 29 September 2020 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Background Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) represent just 6% of the region's exports, yet they constitute 99% of the number of formal businesses and two thirds of employment. This partly reflects the low productivity of these companies and their difficulty in overcoming different obstacles to export, beyond the challenge of accessing credit. Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs) are the main responsible for supporting SMEs in their internationalization process. To do this, they offer various services and carry out different activities to help e…

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

13 May 2019, 05:00 - 14:00 | Event (Other events)

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…

Brazil: Financial Inclusion of Small Businesses Seminar

21 November 2017, 11:30 - 14:45 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Under the auspices of ECLAC, Sebrae organized a seminar on financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises, which was attended by nearly 50 professionals. For ECLAC, the seminar was an opportunity to present the results and broaden the discussion of its project on Financial inclusion of SMEs and innovation policies of development banks,” particularly focusing on the case study of Brazil that was debated with strategic partners from the country. The new Sebrae investigation on SME financing was also presented and discussed at the seminar.…

Costa Rica: Promoting financial inclusion via Development Bank innovation policies

13 November 2017, 05:00 - 22:30 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Within the framework of ECLAC's project, and counting on its sponsorship, the Costa Rican System of Development Banks (SBD) organized a seminar to promote financial inclusion with a focus on innovative development bank policies. The Seminar was used as a space for presenting the results of ECLAC’s project on “Financial inclusion of SMEs and development bank financial innovation policies, including the case study on Costa Rica.…

Chile: Seminar Promoting Financial Inclusion through Development Bank Innovation Policies

18 - 19 October 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Seminar is part of a greater ECLAC project whose aim is to promote the development of a greater array of financial instruments that would allow development banks to boost the financial inclusion of the SME sector, given that SMEs play a central role in the productive fabric and job creation in the regional economies. More specifically, the project centers on the state of financial inclusion in seven Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru) and on the policies that development banks could pursue in order to promote financial inclusion. The…

Study Tour for officials and policy makers from Latin America to Thailand’s SME Bank and the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives

29 September 2017, 12:35 - 15:00 | Event (Other events)

The purpose of this study tour is to provide officials and policy makers from Latin America the opportunity to learn first-hand how two important Thai national development banks, the SME bank and the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC), are enhancing the access of small and medium enterprises in Thailand and exchange views and experiences on the subject.…

Thailand: Workshop on small and medium enterprises’ access to finance and the role of development banks in Asia and the Pacific and Latin America

27 - 28 September 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is implementing a project on financial inclusion in various Latin American countries with the goal of identifying and promoting the development of a wide range of financial instruments that would allow development banks to foster financial inclusion of SMEs. Within the scope of the project, ECLAC will participate in a workshop on small and medium enterprise (SME) financing and the role of development banks in Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America, organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCA…

Ecuador: Promoting financial inclusion via development banks’ innovation policies

25 October 2016, 06:15 - 14:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) organized a technical workshop with the aim to promote financial inclusion through development bank financial innovation policies. The workshop is part of ECLAC’s Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Bank Financial Innovation Policies project whose aim is to analyze the state of financial inclusion in a number of Latin American countries . The final objective of the project is to identify and promote development of a spectrum of financial instruments which allow development banks to foster financial inclusio…

Colombia: Technical Workshop – Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Banks

6 October 2016, 05:00 - 12:15 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) organized a technical workshop with the aim to promote financial inclusion through development bank financial innovation policies. The workshop is part of ECLAC’s Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Bank Financial Innovation Policies project whose aim is to analyze the state of financial inclusion in a number of Latin American countries . The final objective of the project is to identify and promote development of a spectrum of financial instruments which allow development banks to foster financial inclusio…

Mexico: Seminar “Promoting Financial Inclusion via Development Banks’ Innovation Policies”

4 - 5 July 2016 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) organized a technical workshop with the aim to promote financial inclusion through development bank financial innovation policies. The workshop is part of ECLAC’s Financial Inclusion of SMEs and Development Bank Financial Innovation Policies project whose aim is to analyze the state of financial inclusion in a number of Latin American countries . The final objective of the project is to identify and promote development of a spectrum of financial instruments which allow development banks to foster financial inclusio…

Regional workshop: "Databases to identify and characterize exporting SMEs"

6 December 2013, 06:00 - 10:45 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The objetives of the seminar were as follows: a) To present experiences microdata crossing customs with other data sources (such as domestic tax, social security, census, directories and surveys) in some countries in the region to improve the classification by size and exporting deepen characterization of exporting SMEs; b) Meet the databases in some countries in the region that could be used to explore their potential. …

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