Regional Dialogues on External Financing and Climate-Resilient Development

Guided by an enhanced framework, UNCTAD led data collection field missions, identifying their current and potential external financial options, blockages and impediments to the uptake of innovative financial instruments, as well as the regulatory, institutional, and market-related changes required to encourage these innovations. These efforts culminated in the delivery of climate adaptation and mitigation reports for each country, assessing direct and indirect climate risks and proposing strategies to address these risks and achieve SDGs 17.4 and 13.b and will contribute to the regional d…

FFD4 Side event - Measuring development and its implications for international development cooperation: Challenges for middle-income countries

Building upon the experience of recently graduated Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean, this side event contributes to the global debate on measuring development and its impact on international cooperation, promoting a more inclusive and sustainable vision that better reflects the needs of developing countries. The objective of the event is to analyze the challenges posed by traditional metrics, as well as to explore possible alternatives for a more adequate measurement of development.…

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).…

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

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

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.…

Eighth Meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development 2025

Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2025 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum

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

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.…

Regional training workshop on the use of REDATAM for the dissemination of census and survey microdata

The overall objective of this regional workshop is to train staff from the statistical offices of Jamaica and Belize in the use of REDATAM for the development of web applications for online dissemination of census and survey microdata. With follow-up support from ECLAC to be provided as necessary, the two statistical offices will then use REDATAM for online dissemination of their 2022 census data.…

Virtual Expert Group Meeting on Human Capital Formation in the Caribbean

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

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.…

Eighth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

Confronting the challenges to resilient growth and sustainable development in the Caribbean: from dialogue to action post the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States…

Thirtieth Session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

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

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.…

ECLAC's Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs completes successful first visit to Washington D.C.

In his first official visit to Washington D.C. since being appointed Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs was a speaker at the 54th Annual Washington Conference: Advancing the Business Case for the Americas, organized by the Council of the Americas, and at the Wilson Center’s event No More Lost Decades: Opportunities From Nearshoring, the Energy Transition, and Other Drivers of Sustainable Growth, while also participating in meetings with the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Inter-American Dialogue…

Seventh Meeting - Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development 2024

The seventh meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will be held in Santiago, from 15 to 18 April 2024.…

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…

Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future

This past February 8th 2024, Andres Valenciano, Chief of Washington Office, had the opportunity to participate on the Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future event at Georgetown University Law Center. The event was organized by Center on Inclusive Trade and Development co-led by Jennifer Hillman and Katrin Kuhlmann.…

WTO Thematic Session: Trade contributions to energy transition efforts concerning climate adaptation and mitigation

How can trade and trade-related policy tools contribute to a just, climate resilient, low-carbon energy transition? Which goods, services and technologies can support efforts to increase the proportion of renewable sources in national energy mixes? · What trade-related measures have Members taken? What kind of approaches have worked? What are the specific opportunities and challenges faced by developing countries? · What is the WTO’s role in promoting these tools and providing an institutional framework? · From a business perspective, what are the main trade-related opp…

Spanish Public Policy Network (SPPN) Annual Meetings

SPPN Annual Meetings: Georgetown University…