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States Require Integrated, Coordinated, Multilevel Support to Meet the 2030 Agenda

17 Jul 2019 | News

During a side event today to the 2019 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said that the 2030 Agenda is complex and that the support UN member States require to meet the Agenda’s goals must be integrated, coordinated and multilevel. At the event entitled “Beyond July: an integrated support to member States in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda,” representatives of the governments of Chile, Guatemala and Guyana, along with resident coordinators of the…

ECLAC Wants to Get to Know Case Studies on Impact Investments for Sustainable Development in Brazil

13 Jun 2019 | News

The United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Brazil Office, invites researchers, private-sector professionals, businesspeople, representatives of civil society, policymakers and civil servants to submit case studies on impact investments for sustainable development in Brazil, which will form part of the “Big Push for Sustainability in Brazil” project. In simple terms, the “Big Push for Sustainability” represents an approach for analyzing the articulation and coordination of policies (public, corporate and community-based, national, regional a…

New Study Addressing Uruguay’s Public Policies for Childhood is Presented

10 Dec 2018 | News

The publication Public Policies Aimed at Childhood: Contributions from Uruguay was presented at a seminar held on November 12, 2018. The study arose from collaboration between Uruguay’s Ministry of Social Development (MIDES, through the National Office for Evaluation and Monitoring), ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and it reflects these institutions’ efforts to contribute elements of interest for public policy design. The seminar was led by Uruguay’s Minister of Social Development, Marina Arismendi; the Director of ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo, Ver…

United Nations Course on International Law Begins its Second Session at ECLAC

23 Apr 2018 | News

For the second straight year, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host the United Nations Regional Course on International Law for Latin America and the Caribbean, an activity that will convene 25 lawyers from 21 countries in the region at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The course, which will last for four weeks, is organized by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (which is headquartered in New York), in collaboration with Chile’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and ECLAC. Its objective is to enable qualified professionals, particularly…

Distinguished Economist Samuel Bowles Will Give a Keynote Lecture at ECLAC

8 Mar 2018 | Announcement

The distinguished US Economics Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute (in Santa Fe, New Mexico), Samuel Bowles, will give a keynote lecture at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, next Tuesday, March 13. In the framework of a visit to Chile, Professor Bowles will offer a talk entitled “The Origins and Future of Economic Inequality: Institutions, Technology and Politics” at 11 a.m. in ECLAC’s Raúl Prebisch conference room. He will be welcomed by the Executive Secretary of the Unit…

Cities Conference Concluded at ECLAC with Session on Mobility and Sustainable Urban Transportation

6 Oct 2017 | News

After five days of debates and of exchanging experiences, the Cities Conference held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile concluded on Friday, October 6 with a call for dialogue among public and private stakeholders on the implementation of safe, affordable and sustainable urban mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean. On the last day of the gathering – co-organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Assembly of Ministers and High Authorities of Housing and Urban Development of Latin America and the Caribbean (MINURVI), and UN-Habitat – author…

Peru Will Host Two Important Meetings on Development Planning in Latin America and the Caribbean

4 Oct 2017 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and senior authorities involved in development planning and public administration, along with representatives of civil society and United Nations bodies, will gather at the XV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the XVI Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning, which will take place on October 11-13 in Lima, Peru. Both meetings are organized by the governments of Guatemala and Ecuador – which currently serve as co-presidents of the Council – the government of Peru, as the host, and the Economic Commission for Lati…

ECLAC will Hold XXIX Regional Fiscal Policy Seminar

17 Mar 2017 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold its traditional Regional Fiscal Policy Seminar at its central headquarters in Santiago, Chile on March 23-24, drawing ministers and undersecretaries of finance from countries in the region. The meeting, carried out uninterruptedly for 29 years, has become a point of reference for fiscal debate among authorities, policymakers, economists and academics throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It has the support of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Organisation f…

ECLAC Analyzes Social Protection and Access to Public Goods and Services in Colombia’s Rural Areas

1 Mar 2016 | News

Two new documents by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) identify the main gaps in social protection and access to public goods and services in Colombia’s rural areas and make recommendations to help close them. The studies were prepared by ECLAC’s Office in Colombia in the framework of a technical cooperation agreement with the National Department of Planning as a contribution to the Mission for the Transformation of the Countryside, a government initiative that seeks to overcome the limitations that persist in rural areas and to define public policies for that…

Ecuador to Host Regional Meeting on Planning for Development

28 Oct 2015 | Announcement

Ministers and senior authorities, as well as experts and officials from international organizations, will participate on November 18-19 in Yachay (Ecuador) in meetings organized by the Government of Ecuador and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), where they will analyze the contribution of planning to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. On November 18, the XIV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean will take place. It will be inaugurated by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and the …

ECLAC Advocates a New Architecture to Position the State as the Driver of Development

7 Sep 2015 | News

One of the main challenges today is to position the State in the most fitting place for the future and create a new state architecture that allows it to be the driver of development strategies in the region’s countries, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, said during the inauguration of a seminar that was held in Brazil on September 3-4, 2015. The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the International Seminar on the Role of the State in the 21st Century: Challenges for Public Management,…

Study Proposes Public Policy Priorities for Colombian Cities in Accordance with their Social Development

31 Mar 2015 | News

A new study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) classifies Colombia’s 23 main cities into six groups according to their social development levels, and proposes priorities in differentiated public policies tailored to each metropolis’ stage of demographic transition. The report Differentiated Social Policies for Cities in Colombia: A New Generation of Social Policies (only available in Spanish) distinguishes between cities that are elderly, mature, adult, big and young, adolescent and embryonic, according to their demographic features, levels of economic pover…

ECLAC and IDLO Join Forces to Advise the Region’s Countries on Economic Policies Oriented towards Sustainable Development

31 Mar 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) will cooperate on economic and juridical matters to support the region’s countries in the design of economic policies oriented towards boosting sustainable development, including those measures aimed at mitigating climate change impacts. The two organizations signed a cooperation agreement to this effect last January, which will contribute to the development and strengthening of ECLAC and IDLO’s scientific and research work. On the part of ECLAC, the implementation of t…

Latin America Makes Progress on Tax System Reforms

31 Mar 2015 | News

Numerous countries in the region have made tax reforms in recent years. In its report Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2015: Policy Space and Dilemmas, released in March, ECLAC presents a summary of the modifications implemented by 16 countries in 2014. Among the broad variety of reforms, one that stands out is the emphasis a number of countries have placed on income tax, indicating an aim to improve the impact of their tax systems on income distribution, one of the weakest points in the region’s tax policy. The reforms encompassed distinct aspects of taxation, such as modifi…

Economist Thomas Piketty to Visit ECLAC Headquarters

14 Jan 2015 | Announcement

As part of his trip to Chile, French economist Thomas Piketty will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago on Thursday 15 January 2015 at 2.00 p.m. to take part in a lunch meeting with the Commission’s officials and discover first hand ECLAC’s proposals on equality in its trilogy of documents on the subject: Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails (2010); Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development (2012); and Compacts for Equality: Towards a Sustainable Future (2014). The meeting wi…

Officials and Experts Emphasize Regional Think Tanks’ Contribution to Building a Climate Change Agreement

11 Dec 2014 | News

Think tanks in the region can provide information on political and technical matters related to climate change negotiations that contribute to forging a consensus in Paris in 2015, senior United Nations officials and representatives from research centers said during an event held in Lima, Peru in the framework of the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20). The meeting, held on December 10, was attended by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). ECLAC organized this …

Network of Region's Public Investment Institutions Expands

2 Dec 2014 | News

The Network of National Public Investment Systems (Red SNIP, in Spanish), which groups the state institutions that are responsible for evaluating the social impact of public investment projects, launched a platform (only available in Spanish) that brings together information about national authorities, methodologies and legislation pertaining to this issue from its 16 Latin American member countries. This Network was created in 2010 with the goal of improving management of public investments by exchanging experiences, documents and training systems, among other things. It is backed b…

ECLAC Organizes Seminar in Quito on Public Policies in Light of Climate Change

28 May 2014 | News

To provide a space for reflection on public policies related to climate change, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold a seminar this Thursday and Friday, May 29-30, in Quito, Ecuador, called "Public Policies in the Face of Climate Change: Pro-development Measures, Environmental Tax Reforms and Progress on Universal Social Protection in Latin America." The event-which will take place in the framework of the EUROCLIMA Program, funded by the European Union-will be attended by government officials and international experts from Europe and Latin America. The …

Repository Will Systematize the Region's Planning Information

5 Mar 2014 | News

During the last decade, many Latin American and Caribbean countries have developed different programs and public policies with medium- and long-term objectives aimed at bringing about structural change. According toECLAC, this trend has been stronger in South America, but some Central American nations have also started to incorporate this agenda. In the context of renewed interest in planning in the region, the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) of ECLAC is developing the Planning Digital Repository (PDR), which will be launched in th…

Strengthening Social Protection Systems in the Framework of a Welfare State is an Urgent Task in Latin America and the Caribbean for Tackling Multiple Crises

2 Sep 2025 | News

Strengthening social protection systems in the framework of a welfare state is an urgent task in Latin America and the Caribbean amid the prolonged COVID-19 crisis, the economic and social repercussions of the war in Ukraine and the widespread vulnerability of the region’s countries to ongoing emergencies and disasters, according to the speakers at the opening session of the International Expert Meeting “Towards the consolidation of a welfare state in Latin America and the Caribbean: the future of social protection in an era of uncertainty”, which is taking place virtually this Wednesday, June…

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