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ECLAC and CAF Will Hold Annual Conference “The Challenge of Scaling Up and Improving Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean"

2 Apr 2024 | Announcement

WHAT: CAF-ECLAC annual conference "The Challenge of Scaling up and improving productive development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean". The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean will hold their annual conference next Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at the United Nations economic regional commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The high-level event will gather Ministers, Viceministers, high authorities from intergovernmental organizations, experts from regional and international inst…

Lant Pritchett, a Development Economist from the University of Oxford, Will Deliver a Keynote Lecture at ECLAC

13 Mar 2024 | Announcement

Lant Pritchett, a development economist and former Research Director of the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) programme at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, will deliver a keynote lecture on Monday, March 18 at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The prestigious U.S. scholar will give a talk entitled “When does education drive growth and when does it not? Education policies for transformative growth.” He will be received by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secre…

Trinidad and Tobago Commuters Spend One Month of Life in Traffic Every Year… Direct Economic Cost of Traffic in T&T - $2.26B

22 Jan 2024 | News

Over the period June to September 2023, data was collected, using online field surveys, in which respondents answered questions on their traffic congestion experience in Trinidad and Tobago. A key assumption which underpinned the method is that commuters (both drivers and passengers) are best able to estimate the amount of time spent in traffic during their daily movements. Most respondents (56 per cent female and 44 per cent male), reported that they commuted at least three times per week in self-driven private vehicles (81 per cent), carrying no passengers. The problem of vehicu…

New Edition of ECLAC-OECD-CAF and European Commission Report Will Be Launched in Santiago, Chile

12 Dec 2023 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), and the European Commission, will present next Friday 15 December a new edition of their traditional annual report “Latin American Economic Outlook 2023: Investing in Sustainable Development” (known as LEO by its English acronym), at the United Nations regional commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. Latin America and the Caribbean needs an ambitious and comprehensiv…

ECLAC Will Present its Flagship Report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

7 Dec 2023 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Thursday, December 14 its annual flagship report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023, in which it examines the behavior of the region’s economies over the current year and updates estimates for growth and other economic indicators for 2024. Specifically, the document will present new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates for the region and all of its countries in 2023 and 2024. In this edition, the report analyzes the economic and social dynamics of the year that is ab…

Productive Development Policies are Key to a Better Production and Work Future and to Fostering Economies’ Global Integration

26 Oct 2023 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, participated on Thursday, October 26 in the “Dialogues on Uruguay’s Future,” where he reiterated the importance of Productive Development Policies (PDP) as catalysts for higher-quality international economic integration – especially in small economies – and for a better future in terms of production and work in the region’s countries. The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the two events held in Montevideo in the framework of the “Dialogues …

Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, Will Give XVII Raúl Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC

4 Oct 2023 | Announcement

Prominent economist Rebeca Grynspan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), will give the XVII Raúl Prebisch Lecture on Monday, October 30, 2023 at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), where she will be received by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the regional organization’s Executive Secretary. The former Vice President of Costa Rica will give a lecture entitled “Globalization disrupted: Prebisch, Trade Imbalances, and the Future of International Economics” at 11:00 a.m. local time in Chi…

Ricardo Hausmann, Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Will Give a Keynote Lecture at ECLAC

25 Sep 2023 | Announcement

Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Ricardo Hausmann, will visit the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile on Thursday, September 28, where he will give a keynote lecture and be received by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary. The renowned economist – founder and Director of Harvard University’s Growth Lab – will deliver a speech entitled “How can high, sustained, sustainable and inclusive growth be achieved?” The presentation, which will begin at 11 a.m. local time in Chile (UTC/GMT…

The Region Needs New-Generation Productive Development Policies that Enable it to Escape the Trap of Low Growth and Open the Door to Future Prosperity

31 Aug 2023 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, affirmed today that the region needs new-generation productive development policies that would enable it to escape the trap of low growth and open the door to its future prosperity, during a presentation at the TEDxPuraVida 2023 conference held in Costa Rica. “The toolbox for raising the rate of economic growth lies in productive development policies. It’s no longer a matter of putting protectionist tariffs in place, but rather of promoting technological sophistication…

ECLAC Presents its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023, with New Growth Projections for the Region’s Countries

30 Aug 2023 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release next Tuesday, September 5 its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023. Financing a sustainable transition: investment for growth and climate change action, one of the institution’s flagship annual economic reports in which it takes stock of the region’s economies in recent months and updates its growth estimates for each country. This document is the United Nations regional commission’s oldest periodic publication, with its first edition having been presented in 1948, the same year in which ECLAC …

ECLAC CARIBBEAN DIRECTOR: Caribbean Must Tackle Development Challenges Together & Capitalize on Resources 

10 Aug 2023 | News

“We are not small island states, we are large ocean states. We need to be taking full advantage of the potential and the possibility that you get from utilization of the resources of the sea. We need to sit down and plan that. When last did we have a meeting that speaks to the potential of the blue economy among ourselves, and we need to stop working in silos, that’s the next thing. That is one of the things that we need to look at going forward. You don't work at the national level when you can work regionally, you know, or inter-regionally. We all share the same challenges.”  Pr…

Fiscal Policy should Foster the Transformation of Development Models, Including Aspects of Growth and the Reduction of Inequalities

17 May 2023 | News

Fiscal policy should not only help to navigate the needs and urgencies in the short term, but also the transformations of development models in the longer term, including both aspects of growth and reduction of inequalities, said José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the closing of the XXXV Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, which concluded on Wednesday, May 17 at the organization's headquarters in Santiago, Chile. After three days of discussions in which the challenges of fiscal policy to boost economic an…

ECLAC Will Update Its Economic Growth Projections for 2023

19 Apr 2023 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release its new 2023 economic growth projections for the region’s countries tomorrow Thursday, April 20. In light of the behavior of the region’s economies in the first few months of this year, and taking into account the current situation of persistent volatility and international uncertainty, the United Nations regional organization will update the growth estimates that were released in its most recent flagship annual economic report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022, which wa…

New Study by ECLAC Analyzes the Impacts of the War in Ukraine on Uruguay’s Economy

23 Dec 2022 | News

What impact has the war in Ukraine had on the Uruguayan economy? A new publication of the Studies and Perspectives Series of ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo analyzes these precise effects. The study entitled Economic Impacts of the War in Ukraine: A View from the Region and Uruguay (in Spanish only) verifies initially that this war represents a crisis of major proportions that overlaps with others that are also very significant, such as the financial crisis of 2008 and the pandemic crisis – which constitute what ECLAC has called a “cascade of crises.” As a result, the world and Latin America and …

ECLAC Will Present its Flagship Report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022

12 Dec 2022 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Thursday, December 15 its annual flagship report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022, in which it examines the behavior of the region’s economies over the current year and updates estimates for growth and other economic indicators that reflect the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the region’s countries along with their subsequent recovery. Specifically, the document will present new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates for the region and all of its countries in 2022 a…

Latin America and the Caribbean Must Speak with a Single Voice and Build Consensus for a Transformative Reconstruction

26 Oct 2022 | News

Ministers of Foreign Affairs and high-level authorities from Latin American and Caribbean countries, along with prominent political figures from outside the region, agreed today on the urgency of consolidating efforts and spaces to move towards an integration that would allow the region to reach the global scenario with a single voice and lay the foundations for a transformative reconstruction with a view to a new development pattern. On the final day of the thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) – which took place from Monday, October 24 to…

Professor Mariana Mazzucato Will Present Policy Document for Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean

19 Oct 2022 | Announcement

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) of University College London (UCL), will present a new report in which she addresses transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean, at a side event of the thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place on October 24-26 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The document entitled Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Mission-Oriented Approach, which was commissioned by ECLAC, will be launched on Tue…

ECLAC convenes Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee meeting in Suriname

13 Oct 2022 | Announcement

What: Twenty-ninth (29) session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee. When: 14 October 2022 (Opening ceremony at 9 am). Where: The Royal Torarica Hotel, Kleine Waterstraat 10, Paramaribo, Suriname. Background Information Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) Member Countries and Associate Members will convene for the 29th Session. Pursuant to resolution 358(XVI) of 1975, the CDCC was created as a permanent subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), to promote development cooperation among Caribbean countrie…

Seventh Caribbean Development Roundtable focusses on recovery, repositioning and resilience

13 Oct 2022 | News

Convened by ECLAC Caribbean, and hosted by the Government of Suriname, the CDR was officially opened by the outgoing Chair, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Keisal Peters. The meeting was held at the Royal Torarica Hotel, in Paramaribo, Suriname. The Roundtable, Minister Peters said, was conceived as a forum to discuss critical issues that pose fundamental challenge to development in the Caribbean, and to explore solutions that will ultimately support inclusive growth and better living standards for our people, while protecting our environment. Reflecting …

ECLAC convenes Caribbean Development Roundtable meeting in Suriname

11 Oct 2022 | Announcement

What: Seventh (7th) meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable. When: 12 to 13 October 2022 (Opening ceremony at 8 am). Where: The Royal Torarica Hotel, Kleine Waterstraat 10, Paramaribo, Suriname. Background Information The Caribbean Development Roundtable brings together regional and international development thinkers and practitioners, leaders and senior policymakers from ECLAC member States and associate member countries, representatives of the UN System, regional and international financial institutions, academia, and civil society, including the private sector, as well as o…

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