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ECLAC Will Deliver its Last Annual Report from 2025, with Updated Economic Growth Projections for this Year and 2026

10 Dec 2025 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Tuesday, December 16 its annual flagship report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025, in which it examines the behavior of the region’s economies over the current year and updates estimates for growth and other economic indicators in 2025 and 2026. Specifically, the document will present new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth estimates for the region and all of its countries in 2025 and 2026. In this edition, the report analyzes the economic and social dynamics of …

Latin America and the Caribbean Makes Headway with Concrete Actions for Gender Equality and the Care Society

2 Dec 2025 | News

The Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which carried out its sixty-seventh meeting on December 1-2, confirmed once again the continued relevance of the agreements that have made up the Regional Gender Agenda since 1977, particularly the Tlatelolco Commitment: A Decade of Action to Achieve Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society, adopted in August 2025, reaffirming the “commitment to accelerate its full and effective implementation” in synergy with other regional and international treaties and mechanisms. The Sixty-…

During a Lecture at ECLAC, the Undersecretary of State from Poland’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Points Up the Polish Transformation Model

2 Dec 2025 | News

In the last 35 years, Poland has gone from being a developing country to consolidating itself as a developed nation, and from a centrally planned economy to a fully market economy, Wojciech Zajączkowski, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, stressed today in a keynote lecture he delivered at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The diplomat gave a lecture entitled “The Polish transformation model” in which he analyzed his country’s development over the last three decades, reflected on t…

Ministers and Senior Authorities Will Meet to Discuss Implementation of the Tlatelolco Commitment and Participate in a Consultation Prior to the CSW70

27 Nov 2025 | Announcement

Ministers and senior authorities from women’s advancement mechanisms will participate in the Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will take place on Monday, December 1 and Tuesday, December 2, 2025 using a hybrid format (in-person and virtual) from the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. In addition to delegates from ECLAC’s Member States, other participants in the meeting will include representatives of the United Nations (UN),…

ECLAC Will Launch its Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 Report

20 Nov 2025 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Wednesday, November 26 its flagship annual report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025. How to escape the trap of high inequality, low social mobility and weak social cohesion, which includes the latest data available on poverty, income inequality and social spending in the region, among other indicators. The main conclusions of the document consisting of four chapters will be unveiled by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, at a hybrid (in-person…

Thirteenth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas Will Be Held at ECLAC

20 Nov 2025 | Announcement

Authorities and representatives from Latin American and Caribbean countries’ National Statistics Offices will debate issues relevant to the region’s statistical development at the Thirteenth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place on November 25-27, 2025 at the regional organization’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The meeting will be inaugurated on Tuesday, November 25 at 10 a.m. local time (UTC/GMT -3) by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, and Mild…

A new publication by the United Nations regional commission calls for turning the response to the climate crisis into an opportunity for the region.

17 Nov 2025 | News

The impacts of climate change are slowing development and deepening inequalities in the region, warns a new publication by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which identifies climate action as an opportunity to spur innovation, investment and sustainable development. The report The Economics of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025: Climate Action to Overcome Development Traps, to be presented at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, examines how global warming is deepening the region’s structural development traps — low capacity for growth, high inequalit…

ECLAC’s New Annual Report Analyzes the Effects of U.S. Tariffs on Latin America and the Caribbean’s Foreign Trade

12 Nov 2025 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release next Wednesday, November 19, its annual report entitled International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2025: International trade in a new era of weaponized interdependence. In addition to examining the evolution of foreign trade in the region’s economies during the first half of this year and to presenting its full-year projections for the export and import of goods and services, ECLAC in this report will provide a special analysis of the effects that the United States’ new tariff policy has had o…

New ECLAC publication assesses the effectiveness and challenges of carbon pricing instruments in the region

11 Nov 2025 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has published the report Overview of carbon pricing policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025: an analysis of their effectiveness and guidelines for implementation, which examines the progress, challenges and opportunities associated with carbon pricing mechanisms as a key climate policy tool for the region. The study analyzes both explicit instruments — such as carbon taxes and emissions trading systems — and implicit mechanisms — including fuel taxes, the social price of carbon, and the reduction of fossil fuel subsi…

ECLAC at COP30: economic instruments and multilateral cooperation for a just and sustainable transition

10 Nov 2025 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will take an active role, together with its regional partners, at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), held from 10 to 21 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil, under the global theme “COP30: the catalyst for a sustainable future.” COP30 is a milestone for the region: hosted in the Brazilian Amazon, it marks the starting point for the implementation of third-generation Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). In a complex geopolitical context, marked by relat…

Latin America and the Caribbean Must Scale Up and Improve its Productive Development Policies: LEO 2025 Report

10 Nov 2025 | News

To escape the trap of low capacity for growth in which it is caught, Latin America and the Caribbean must scale up and improve its productive development policies based on a new vision, experts from ECLAC, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Commission and the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean emphasized today upon presenting their joint report Latin American Economic Outlook 2025 (LEO 2025): Promoting and Financing Production Transformation. The 18th edition of this publication was launched at a special event held in the f…

UN Regional Commissions Should Play a Central Role in the Implementation and Follow-up of the Agreements Reached at the Second World Summit for Social Development

6 Nov 2025 | News

The five United Nations regional commissions, including the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), should play a central role in the implementation and follow-up of the Doha Political Declaration, the outcome of the Second World Summit for Social Development (Qatar, November 4-6), according to Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of ECLAC’s Social Development Division, who proposed this at the global gathering on behalf of the institution’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs. On Tuesday, November 4, Alberto Arenas de Mesa attended High-…

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Will Convene Its Second 2025 Consultations with Civil Society Organizations

4 Nov 2025 | Announcement

The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene its second 2025 Consultations with Civil Society Organizations on 12 November 2025 at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago de Chile, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time. The theme of the Consultations will be “Engagement with Latin American Civil Society & Palestinian Diaspora: A Call for Action to Ensure Recovery and Healing to Gaza and to End Israel’s Illegal Occupation”. Historically, Latin America has b…

A Social and Rights-based Approach is Crucial for Ensuring Full Participation of People with Disabilities and for Moving Towards a More Just and Inclusive Society

28 Oct 2025 | News

A social and rights-based approach is critical for ensuring the full participation of people with disabilities and moving towards a more just and inclusive society, a new document by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) emphasizes. The publication, Persons with Disabilities: From Statistical Visibility to the Exercise of Rights, indicates that at least 6.5% of the region’s population lives with some kind of disability, although it warns that this proportion could be higher due to limitations in the available methods of measurement. “By ensuring that populati…

ECLAC Calls for Accelerating the Achievement of Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society on the Occasion of the International Day of Care and Support

27 Oct 2025 | News

On 29 October 2025, the International Day of Care and Support, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2023, will be commemorated. This date seeks to raise awareness of the centrality of care in our societies and its contribution to people’s well-being and prosperity and to the achievement of gender equality and sustainable development. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has proposed a paradigm shift in development: the care society, a form of social organization and renewed multilateralism that prioritizes the sustainability of life and the c…

Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development Will Be Held at ECLAC on October 29-30

22 Oct 2025 | Announcement

Senior authorities from the ministries and areas involved in population and development-related matters in the region will meet in Santiago, Chile on October 29-30, 2025 to participate in the Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and chaired by the government of Colombia. This intergovernmental gathering will be inaugurated on Wednesday, October 29 at 2:30…

ECLAC to Launch its Report Panorama of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025

6 Oct 2025 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch the second edition of its report Panorama of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 on Thursday, October 9, 2025, in Mexico City. In this publication, the Commission not only reiterates the need to scale up and improve these policies to drive the productive transformation required for the region and escape the low-growth trap in which it is mired, but also sets forth specific ways to achieve it. The report will be presented by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinac…

ECLAC Proposes a New TOPP Institutional Capacity Approach for Countries to Move Towards More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Development

2 Oct 2025 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) released a document that proposes a new approach to strengthening countries’ technical, operational, political and prospective (TOPP) institutional capacities as an analytical and operational paradigm for managing the essential transformations needed in the region to advance towards more productive, inclusive and sustainable development. The publication sets forth a roadmap and related instruments to help institutions enhance their ability to design, implement, sustain over time, and flexibly adapt public policies in changing …

Third Edition of the Latin American Artificial Intelligence Index to Be Presented at ECLAC on October 3

29 Sep 2025 | Announcement

On Friday, October 3, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Chile’s National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) will present the results of the third edition of the Latin American Artificial Intelligence Index (ILIA). The report was developed with the support of the European Union–Latin America and the Caribbean Digital Alliance (EU–LAC) and a broad network of academic, public, and private partners. ILIA represents a pioneering effort to systematically measure the progress of artificial intelligence (AI) across 19 countries in the region. The 2025 edit…

How to Follow the Twentieth Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean’s Regional Council for Planning

27 Sep 2025 | News

On October 2-3, 2025, the Twentieth Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) will take place in Brasilia, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Brazil, through the National Secretariat for Planning of the Ministry of Planning and Budget. The conference will open on Thursday, October 2 at 9:00 in Brasilia (GMT-3), bringing together ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities from the region’s countries, along with represent…

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