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High-level seminar on the future of economic statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

18 November 2019|Event

This is an event related to the tenth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas and will be held at ECLAC headquarters. Organized jointly by ECLAC, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Organized jointly by ECLAC, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss data needs for evidence-based policymaking, recent experiences in innovation in statistical production and the integration of data sources, and institutional mechanisms for developing economic statistics.

The results and recommendations of the seminar will be included in the report of the tenth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas.

  • Session 1 and 2

Seminario Alto Nivel sobre el Futuro de las Estadísticas Económicas en AL y el Caribe

  • Session 3 and 4

Seminario Alto Nivel sobre Futuro de las Estadísticas Económicas en AL y el Caribe

  • Session 5 and 6 (After of the opening session of the tenth meeting of the SCA)

Décima Reunión de la Conferencia de Estadísticas de las Américas de la CEPAL

18 Nov 2019

  • Registration of participants and Welcome and opening remarks

    08:30 to 09:10
    • • Rolando Ocampo, División de Estadísticas de la CEPAL / ECLAC Statistics Division
      • José Antonio Mejía, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) / Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
      • Ivo Havinga, División de Estadísticas de Naciones Unidas (DENU) / United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
  • Introduction of the Friends of the Chair Group on Economic Statistics and the Future of Economic Statistics - Initiative on the update of the system of economic

    09:10 to 09:30
    • Susie Fortier, Statistics Canada
      Friends of the Chair (FOC) Group on Economic Statistics
      Ivo Havinga, DENU / UNSD
      Global Coordination and Governance for the Update of the System of Economic Statistics
  • Sustainable economic development and the need for statistics - a user and policy perspective

    09:30 to 10:00
    • Daniel Titelman, División de Desarrollo Económico de la CEPAL / ECLAC Economic Development Division
      Desarrollo económico sostenible y necesidad de estadísticas desde una perspectiva de usuario y de políticas
  • Session 1: Priorities and initiatives for institutional arrangements to advance the integration of economic statistics

    10:00 to 11:30

    » Moderator: ECLAC

    • Daniel Oviedo, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadísticas (DANE) de Colombia
      Enrique Ordaz, INEGI de México
      Subsistema Nacional de Información Económica
      Peter van de Ven, OCDE
      It’s time for a change: broadening the SNA framework to account for sustainability and well-being
  • Session 2: Priorities and initiatives for the update of the statistical operations and statistical infrastructure of the system of economic statistics

    11:30 to 13:00
    • Lourdes Erro, Banco Central de Uruguay
      1) Necesidades de información hacia los ODS 2020 y los desafíos para la base estadística (presentación)
      2) Necesidades de información hacia los ODS 2020 y los desafíos para la base estadística (documento)
      Banco Central de Costa Rica
      Cimar Azeredo Pereira, Instituto Brasileño de Geografía y Estadística (IBGE) de Brasil
      Uso de registros administrativos para la producción de estadísticas: demandas y desafíos
  • Session 3: Priorities and Initiatives on the conceptual framework of the system of economic statistics to measure beyond traditional metrics

    14:30 to 16:30
    • Santiago Segovia, Banco Central de Ecuador
      El Banco Central y la Estadística del Futuro
      Ignacio Flores Beale, World Inequality Lab de Francia
      Desafíos de medición de las desigualdades - Datos, problemas y soluciones
  • Session 4: Coordination and governance for the update of the system of economic statistics

    16:30 to 18:00
    • Ivo Havinga, DENU /UNSD
      Shyam Upadhyaya, Organización de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo Industrial (ONUDI) / United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
      UNIDO’s role in organization and dissemination of global industrial statistics

19 Nov 2019

  • Session 5: Global and regional priorities and initiative to provide access to new technological infrastructure, methods and services

    10:30 to 13:00

    (Plenary of the Statistical Conference of the Americas)

    » Moderator: ECLAC

    • Daniel Titelman, División de Desarrollo Económico de la CEPAL / ECLAC Economic Development Division
      Ivette Fernández, Francisco Ruiz, Banco Central de Chile
      Nuevas fuentes de información y herramientas tecnológicas
      José Antonio Meade, México
      Datos, narrativa y bienestar
  • Session 6: Conclusions and recommendations on the global and regional priorities and initiatives

    12:00 to 13:00

    » Moderator: ECLAC

    • Ivo Havinga, DENU / UNSD
      Resumen e informe del primer día del seminario
      - Debate plenario sobre conclusiones y recomendaciones / Plenary discussion on conclusions and recommendations