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ECLAC Announces Winners of International Short Essay Contest about the Future of Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

6 June 2018 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), along with the Southern Cone edition of Le Monde diplomatique and the NODAL Latin American and Caribbean News Portal, announced the results of the international short essay contest on the future of equality in the region. In the framework of the commemoration of ECLAC’s 70th anniversary, which is being celebrated in 2018, 80 young people (48 men and 32 women) from 20 countries and from a multiplicity of fields and professions presented previously unpublished works in the form of short essays, which contribute to the discussio…

The European Union launches the Regional Facility for Development in Transition

2 May 2018 | News

The Regional Facility for Development in Transition for Latin America and the Caribbean is an EU-led initiative, developed with the support of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and its Development Centre and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Stefano Manservisi, Director-General for International Cooperation and Development at the European Commission said: "The objective of this Facility is to promote sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean, while countries transition to higher levels of income. It will support…

ECLAC Participates in First Meeting of G20 Employment Working Group

27 March 2018 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) participated in the first meeting of the G20 Employment Working Group from February 20-22, 2018. The meeting took place in the city of Buenos Aires in the context of the G20 international forum, of which Argentina currently holds the presidency. During the meeting, ECLAC provided a regional look at job trends in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as informal labor – taking into account the formalization options available and limitations – and the impact of new business models on jobs. On this occasion, participants requ…

The Manufacturing Industry Continues to be Decisive in Development Processes in the Region, ECLAC says

14 December 2017 | News

What do we mean when we talk about structural change? And what do we mean by industrial policy? These are the first two questions that the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) tries to answer in its recently launched book Manufactura y cambio estructural: aportes para pensar la política industrial en la Argentina (Manufacturing and Structural Change: Contributions for Thinking about Industrial Policy in Argentina). The 336-page book describes the main restrictions faced by the Argentine manufacturing industry in recent decades, analyzes the scope and e…

ECLAC Analyzes Structural Gaps in Development in Argentina’s Provinces

4 September 2017 | News

ECLAC’s Office in Buenos Aires presented, in two new publications, studies about the main conditioning factors to achieving inclusive and sustainable development found in the Argentine provinces of Tucuman and Chaco. The studies were carried out based on the perspective of structural gaps, with a view to contributing along with subnational governments to determining strategic areas for public intervention to close the existing gaps and to producing an assessment that serves to support strategies to attract financing in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The studies w…

Buenos Aires Will Host New Round of Negotiations for Regional Agreement on Rights of Access in Environmental Matters

27 July 2017 | Announcement

The Latin American and Caribbean countries that adhere to the regional initiative for the effective application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in the region – which refers to access to environmental information, participation and justice – will meet next week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to continue negotiations toward a regional agreement on these matters. Authorities, government officials, representatives of civil society and experts from international bodies will gather from 31 July to 4 August in the Seventh Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the …

ECLAC Began Training Program for Public Officials in Argentina

14 June 2017 | Announcement

In May, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) began a training program in quantitative analysis techniques for public administration officials in Argentina. The program is made up of five independent courses of a theoretical-practical nature, which will be implemented as workshops with an emphasis on the application of the concepts and techniques presented via software that corresponds specifically to each one. The first course was carried out between May 23 and June 9 and was given by Soledad Villafañe from ECLAC’s Office in Buenos Aires and Agustín Arakaki, of t…

ECLAC Organized Seminars in Buenos Aires on Financialization and Functional Income Distribution

9 December 2016 | News

The Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Buenos Aires organized two seminars this quarter on macroeconomics and development, with participation by representatives from international organizations, central bank officials from Argentina and Brazil, and academic and private-sector experts. In the first seminar-workshop (Productive Structure, Institutions and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Latin America), held September 1-2, participants debated the specific ways in which financialization plays out in the region: where the great capital influx that has entere…

ECLAC Will Train Argentine Public Officials in Quantitative Analysis Techniques

17 June 2016 | Announcement

In July, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch a training program in quantitative analysis techniques for officials from Argentina’s public administration. The program consists of four independent courses of a theoretical-practical nature, 20 hours each, which will be implemented as workshops with emphasis on the application of concepts and techniques presented using software that is suited to each specific one. The first course will take place on July 26-29 and will be given by Alejandra Silva, of ECLAC’s Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Cente…

ECLAC and Argentina’s Ministry of Social Development Sign Cooperation Agreement

18 April 2016 | News

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Carolina Stanley, Argentina’s Minister of Social Development, signed on Monday, April 18 a Framework Agreement of Technical Cooperation between both institutions with the aim of facilitating joint activities. The agreement includes developing indicators and information systems for the design of public policies; assessing policies, instruments of support and institutions to foster sub-national areas; carrying out seminars, conferences and courses; and the training and exchange of staf…

Economist Mariana Mazzucato Will Give Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC

31 March 2016 | Announcement

Renowned Italian-American economist Mariana Mazzucato will deliver next Tuesday, April 19 the XIV Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture Series at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where she will be received by the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena. Mazzucato, who is a Professor in the Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, will present at 11.00 a.m. a lecture entitled “Entrepreneurial State: Creation of Markets…

Ninety-Five Percent of Jobs in Argentina Are Concentrated in Half of the Country’s Regions

3 December 2015 | News

Ninety-five percent of employment in Argentina is concentrated in half of the 52 micro-regions in which the country can be divided, according to a study published recently by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) that investigates the relationship between production and territories and its importance for planning public investment in infrastructure that is at the service of the productive framework. The report Productive Complexes and Territory in Argentina: Contributions for the Study of the Country’s Economic Geography (only available in Spanish) presents the re…

Macroeconomics for Development, the Focus of a Seminar Held in Argentina

8 September 2015 | News

External restrictions, financial integration and income distribution were some of the topics addressed during the second seminar-workshop on productive structure, institutions and economic dynamics held on August 20-21 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in which government officials and experts participated. The event began with a regional assessment made by Martín Abeles, Director of the Buenos Aires Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Sebastián Valdecantos, an expert from the same institution. Following that, a series of academic studies related to the…

Evolution of Argentinian Productive Structure Assessed at Seminar in Buenos Aires

5 December 2014 | News

The main problems Argentina faces in terms of its industrial activity and the current dynamics of international technology were some of the issues discussed at a seminar organized by the office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Buenos Aires on October 1-3. The event, which also included a workshop component, was intended to contribute ECLAC's own structural approach to the debate on the industrial policies and technology Argentina requires. The old discussion of static or dynamic economic efficiency was resumed and the problems of the manufacturing secto…

ECLAC Holds in Buenos Aires Seminar on Macroeconomic Policy and Production Structure in the Region

2 June 2014 | News

In Buenos Aires on 24 and 25 April, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a Seminar-workshop on production structure, institutions and economic dynamics, which was attended by Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado. The meeting was also attended by the Director of the Buenos Aires Office, Martín Abeles, various other ECLAC officials and economists working in universities, research centres and public institutions in Argentina. Antonio Prado stated that "macroeconomic policy must be linked with the development process". According to the senior ECLAC of…

Narrowing Social Inclusion Gaps for Young People Is Key for Latin America

1 October 2013 | News

Latin American young people currently suffer from high unemployment, low social security coverage and labour market participation characterized by low productivity and wages, according to the Officer in Charge of the Argentina Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Martín Abeles, speaking at the International Meeting on Social Inclusion, Youth and Gender Equality. IXth Forum of Ministers of Social Development for Latin America, organized by UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme, and held at the Palacio San Martín i…

ECLAC and Argentine Province of Santa Fe Developed New Economic Activity Index

2 July 2013 | News

A statistical and econometric instrument to measure a province's economic activity simply and in real time has been developed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in conjunction with the Secretariat for Planning and Economic Policy of the Province of Santa Fe in Argentina and the Provincial Institute of Statistics and Censuses (IPEC). The Synthetic Index of Provincial Economic Activity (ISAE), created as part of the Programme of Technical Assistance to Provinces by the ECLAC Office in Buenos Aires, will provide information for diagnostics and the pl…

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