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ECLAC Recognizes Mexico’s Progress on Energy Efficiency for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Goals

25 Jun 2018 | News

In Mexico, energy consumption in the residential sector was reduced by 45.9% thanks to targeted public policies, meaning that if the same effort is made with industry, commerce and services, transportation and agriculture, the country will be able to achieve the target of doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency as part of Sustainable Development Goal 7, according to the National Report on Monitoring the Energy Efficiency of Mexico, 2018 (available only in Spanish). The research indicates that “Mexico is one of the countries in Latin America with a greater tradition and imp…

The Economies of Central America and the Dominican Republic Will Grow 4.4% in 2018

22 Mar 2018 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) estimates that average growth for the economies of Central America and the Dominican Republic (CADR) will reach 4.4% in 2018, representing a 0.4 percentage point increase over what was recorded in 2017. This is according to the report Central America and the Dominican Republic: Economic Evolution in 2017 and Prospects for 2018. Preliminary Overview, published recently by the organization’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico. The document adds that consumption and investment are expected to decelerate, due to fresh increases in…

Financial Inclusion of Small Rural Producers is a Key Strategy for Sustainable Rural Development with Equality: ECLAC

22 Dec 2017 | News

Progressive structural change in rural areas requires innovative strategies and tools for its implementation, together with greater capacity for coordination among multiple actors and instruments, where the public sector is strategically placed to serve as a catalyst, according to a new publication by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The Financial inclusion of small rural producers reveals the vast inequalities existing in rural areas where, according to the latest estimates, poverty and indigence rates practically double those of urban areas. This means tha…

In a New Report, ECLAC Analyses Trends in Regional Poverty and the Situation of the Pension Systems in Latin America

18 Dec 2017 | Announcement

On Wednesday 20 December, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will unveil its report Social Panorama of Latin America 2017, which examines the evolution of regional poverty and presents an analysis of the pension systems in Latin America and their challenges in the face of the current demographic transition. The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will give a press conference at 9 a.m. (GMT-6) in the building of the Commission’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico, to present the main findings of the publication. The presentation will be …

Alicia Bárcena Underscored Potential of Universal, Unconditional Basic Income for Young People in the Region

27 Nov 2017 | News

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), analyzed on Monday 27 November the potential benefits that a universal and unconditional basic income could have on the 145 million young people in the region, during her presentation of the book Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, by authors Phillippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, published by Grano de Sal. According to Bárcena, this could be “a redistributive, intergenerational and emancipating instrument” for young people in the region,…

Alicia Bárcena Reaffirms Need for a New Development Model at High-level Forum alongside Noam Chomsky and Nobel Prize Winner Mario Molina

15 Nov 2017 | News

“Latin America and the Caribbean needs to move toward a new development paradigm based on equality and environmental sustainability as the drivers of growth. The current model, capitalism, doesn’t work,” Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated this Wednesday, November 15, at a high-level forum held in Mexico City. Bárcena participated in the opening session of the international forum The Siege Upon Civilization: From Wall to Wall – organized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the University o…

Specialists Underscore Importance of Integrating Statistical and Geospatial Information and Discuss Priorities for Regional Strategic Plan

14 Nov 2017 | News

In a context of accelerated geopolitical, economic and technological changes, with pressing phenomena such as migration and climate change, the countries of the region – via the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) –are working on a strategic plan to integrate statistical and geospatial data and thereby make progress on achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena, said today in Aguascalientes, Mexico. “Humanity will need all available instruments to transform our developmen…

Experts Agree Role of Region’s MSMEs Must Be Rethought to Integrate Them into Fourth Industrial Revolution

10 Oct 2017 | News

The fourth industrial revolution underway is forcing a rethinking of the role of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean and requires policies that enable the development of capacities to successfully compete in today’s productive systems, which are characterized by their dynamism, experts agreed during a meeting organized by the Euromipyme project in Mexico City. The Regional Seminar Latin America and Europe in the Face of Technological Disruption: A New Era of Policies and Institutions for MSMEs began today in Mexico with the participation of Susa…

ECLAC Organizes Seminar in Mexico to Debate New Generation of Policies and Institutions for Region’s MSMEs

2 Oct 2017 | Announcement

On October 10-11 in Mexico City, the Regional Seminar Latin America and Europe in the Face of Technological Disruption: A New Era of Policies and Institutions for MSMEs will be held to examine the technological changes that are producing sharp tensions in agents of production and government authorities of the region. The event will be streamed live via the Internet. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the framework of the Euromipyme project, developed with the European Union, this gathering is aimed at policy makers, specialists and representativ…

Financial Inclusion Creates Opportunities and Allows for Achieving the SDGs, ECLAC Sustains

4 Sep 2017 | News

Financial inclusion is a tool that boosts the creation of opportunities and strengthens the ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates in two studies carried out by the organization’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico. In the first study, ECLAC underscores that El Salvador faces the challenge of institutionalizing a national strategy for financial inclusion, while in the second, it stresses that Honduras must seek to strengthen its National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS), adopted by that count…

Strategies to Support MSMEs in the Region Will Be Discussed at Two Events in Chile and Mexico

4 Sep 2017 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is organizing two international events to discuss support strategies for the region’s micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), in the framework of the Euromipyme project carried out by the United Nations regional organization and the European Union. The first of these, entitled International Gathering and Commercial Networks for Business Development Centers, will be held on September 12-14 at the Intercontinental Hotel and at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, drawing more than 200 participants. Currently, Busi…

Economic Performance of Latin American and Caribbean Countries during 2017 will Be Analized in New ECLAC Report

19 Jul 2017 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Thursday, 3 August, its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2017, a publication updating growth estimates for the region’s countries in the current year. ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the report during a press conference that will be held at 11:00 a.m. (GMT – 04:00) at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, and will be broadcast live via Internet at the institution’s Web site. The Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean is one of ECLAC’s most…

ECLAC Promotes a Life Cycle Approach to End Inequalities Determined by People’s Age

14 Jun 2017 | News

Age is one of the structural elements in the social inequality matrix in Latin America and the Caribbean, which overlaps with and potentiates other core elements, such as socioeconomic status, gender, ethnic-racial origin and territory, according to one of the chapters in the Social Panorama of Latin America 2016 annual report, which was presented recently by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). “Each stage of the life cycle presents specific opportunities, challenges and risks,” ECLAC indicates in the chapter entitled “The social inequality matrix: Age as an ax…

Central America Should Have a Regional Competition Authority, New ECLAC Study Proposes

14 Jun 2017 | News

The coordination of Central American competition policy would contribute to improving market functioning in the subregion and would reinforce competition in each country, according to the study Overview and challenges of competition policy in Central America (Spanish only). The publication by the Subregional Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico analyzes how the requirements of the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union – which establishes that all countries must have an effective competition policy – have co…

ECLAC Will Launch Social Panorama of Latin America 2016

24 May 2017 | Announcement

On Tuesday, May 30, 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch a new edition of its flagship annual report on issues of social development. The report, published since 1991, will be unveiled at the regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The institution’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the document Social Panorama of Latin America 2016 at a press conference at 11:00 a.m. The launch will be broadcast live online via ECLAC’s website at: ://www.cepal.org/en. The study focuses on the measurement and analysis of diverse…

South-South and Triangular Cooperation, New and Effective Cooperation Models for Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda: ECLAC

4 May 2017 | News

South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation provide a new cooperation model among equals that allows for protecting the interests of middle-income countries, strengthening the participation of developing nations in global forums for fiscal cooperation and addressing harmful fiscal competition through integrated regional programs, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, sustained this Thursday, May 4. The senior ECLAC official participated in Panama City in the Forum to launch Panama Cooperates, a National Coop…

Authorities and Specialists Agree that Latin America and the Caribbean Needs to Understand Emerging Technologies to Assess their Opportunities and Risks

27 Apr 2017 | News

To board the fourth industrial revolution “train” and avoid being razed by the technological “tsunami,” the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must first understand what this global process is about, identify the sectors that can harness new technologies and assess the potential benefits and costs of their use, authorities and specialists agreed at a special session on artificial intelligence that took place during the first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development in Mexico City. The goal of this session was to have a first …

It is Imperative that the Gender Approach be Mainstreamed throughout the 2030 Agenda, Alicia Bárcena says

27 Apr 2017 | News

The gender approach must be mainstreamed throughout the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a special view to achieving women’s economic, physical and political autonomy, Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, said at a side event entitled Commitments and Roadmap Towards a 50-50 Planet by 2030, held in the framework of the first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which is taking place through Friday in the Mexican capital with ECLAC’s sponsorship. The gathering was organized by the regional Inter-Agency Gender Gr…

2030 Agenda and Multilateral Cooperation are Indispensable for Confronting Global Tensions: ECLAC

26 Apr 2017 | News

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, multilateralism, integration and regional cooperation are indispensable instruments for confronting the economic, social and environmental tensions provoked by the uncertain international scenario, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), asserted today. The senior United Nations official, along with Mexican Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, initiated the work of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable D…

ECLAC Calls for Strengthened South-South Cooperation to Attain the Sustainable Development Goals

25 Apr 2017 | News

Only by combining initiatives and efforts will the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean be able to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), since what is needed is global governance and new partnerships between States, their citizens and the private sector. In responding to that imperative, South-South cooperation can and must make a significant contribution, says the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Daniel Titelman, the Director of the Economic Development Division of ECLAC, representing the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Regional Co…

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