Roundtable "Opportunities to move towards universal social protection…

This online event is organized under the framework of two projects: “Social protection and vulnerability: universal social protection systems in Latin America” of the Facility for Development in Transition, financed by the European Union, and the ECLAC-BMZ/giz project “Transformative Reactivation: Overcoming the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean”. This event also contributes to the preparative works of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean to be held next October. Simultaneous interpretation spanish-english-spanish will be available.

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 opening of the event, Ms. Marita Brömmelmeier, Resident Director of GIZ Mexico, highlighted that the decades-long alliance that unites the German Cooperation and ECLAC, in this case through its project on Recover Better: Overcoming the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, " highlights the role of public policy to build consensus, focus efforts and resources for the sake of a more inclusive and friendly development for our climate and environment." Aware of the need to mobilize resources to finance sustainable and inclusive development in the region, this project aims, as Ms. Brömmelmeier said, to build "better understanding and analysis of tax spending to redesign and eliminate ineffective tax incentives for investment or identify tax expenditures that are inequitable or that promote economic activities that may be harmful to our environment and climate”.

Second Regional Seminar on Social Development: "Social Security and…