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Second CELAC-China Academic Forum Seeks to Strengthen Cooperation between Both to Tackle New Global Challenges

11 Oct 2021 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, along with authorities, former heads-of-state and distinguished academics, opened the II High-Level CELAC-China Academic Forum and the VI China-LAC Think Tanks Forum. The two-day event will bring together government officials, university experts and international officials from both regions with the aim of exchanging experiences and promoting mutual cooperation to tackle new global challenges and build forward a better future. With sponsorship from Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Aff…

High-level Authorities from the Region Will Examine the Opportunities and Challenges of International Development Cooperation in the Context of the Post-Pandemic Recovery

18 Aug 2021 | Announcement

High-level authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean, including Ministers of Foreign Affairs and representatives of the region’s cooperation agencies, will participate on August 19-20 in the Extraordinary meeting of the Committee on South-South Cooperation: opportunities for renewed international development cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held virtually. The event will be inaugurated on Thursday, August 19 at 9 a.m. local time in Costa Rica (11 a.m. in Chile) by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribb…

Authorities from the Region Posed the Urgency of Renewed Cooperation with Development in Transition Countries Based on a Multidimensional Measurement of Sustainable Development

14 Jul 2021 | News

Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean along with international officials posed the urgency of renewing international cooperation on the basis of a multidimensional measurement of development, which would take into account the structural gaps that middle-income countries face, during a virtual event organized by the Government of Costa Rica and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the sidelines of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021. The virtual event entitled Multidimensional measurements of development: opportunities for …

The Pandemic Showed the Need to Move Towards Universal, Comprehensive, Sustainable and Resilient Social Protection Systems

14 Jul 2021 | News

The emergency measures taken by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have attenuated the social impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, but the pandemic’s duration over time and the region’s structural gaps show the urgency of moving towards universal, comprehensive, sustainable and resilient social protection systems, according to the Social Development authorities, international officials and specialists who participated in an event organized by ECLAC in the framework of the month-long series, “Development in Transition: Dialogues to chart new paths for Latin America and the Caribbean.” …

It is Urgent that the International Community Support the End of Middle-Income Countries’ Graduation from Official Development Assistance

5 Jul 2021 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, urged the international community to support the end of middle-income countries’ graduation from Official Development Assistance (ODA), during today’s opening segment of a month-long series entitled Development in Transition: Dialogues to chart new paths for Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by ECLAC, the European Commission and the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The senior United Nations official stressed that it is …

It is Time for Middle-Income Countries to Be Part of Debt Relief Initiatives for a Green and Inclusive Recovery: Alicia Bárcena

28 Jun 2021 | News

It is time for middle-income countries to be made part of debt relief initiatives for a green and inclusive recovery, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during an international conference entitled Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery, organized by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London, and the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. “We aspire to a new global multilateral mechanism for restructuring debt. We need to build a new architec…

A Feminist Foreign Policy is Needed to Achieve a Transformative Recovery with Equality in the Region: Alicia Bárcena

14 Jun 2021 | News

A feminist foreign policy not only means that States guarantee women’s rights both inside and outside their territories’ borders. It also implies that States promote multilateralism with the aim of addressing in a coordinated way the structural constraints of gender inequality, a key aspect for achieving a transformative recovery with equality in the region, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during the 2nd Cultural Congress Migrant Women from Mexico and the World (June 14-17), organized by the Consulate of Mex…

South-South and Triangular Cooperation Should Support the Forging of a Better and More Egalitarian Multilateralism, Especially in Times of COVID-19: Alicia Bárcena

1 Jun 2021 | News

We urgently need a new political and social compact at a national, regional and global level and, in that framework, South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation must be some of the main tools for achieving a better and more egalitarian multilateralism, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during an event organized on the sidelines of the 20th session of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation (June 1-4). Bárcena was one of the panelists at the event entitled The United Nations and the scaling …

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Highlights Joint Work with the OECD to Support the Sustainable Development of Latin American and Caribbean Countries

28 May 2021 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, highlighted the fruitful joint work carried out with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in support of the sustainable development of the region’s countries, during the 5th anniversary of the OECD’s Regional Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean. The High-Level Public Session of the Steering Group of the Programme (LACRP) took place virtually this Friday with the presence of Heads of State and authorities from numerous countries in the region, in…

Alicia Bárcena: Strengthened Inter-regional Cooperation on the Economy and Other Matters Would be a Great Boost for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

20 May 2021 | News

Inter-regional cooperation is an absolute must for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and tackling the many and difficult challenges that confront the world today, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), indicated during a high-level international event organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the permanent missions of Belarus and Barbados to the United Nations office in Geneva. The event entitled “Harnessing inter-regional integration for the SDGs” brought together autho…

Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean Will Review Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

1 Apr 2021 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and other high-level authorities from Latin American and Caribbean countries will review, on April 26-28, 2021, the progress and challenges related to regional implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, at a virtual meeting co-organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in its capacity as Coordinator of the United Nations Network on Migration. The meeting entitled Regional review meeting on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe,…

Urgent Support Must be Provided to Caribbean Countries So They Can Advance on Fulfilling the SDGs in the Context of the Pandemic

17 Mar 2021 | News

Government authorities, United Nations officials and representatives of civil society urged for providing urgent support to Caribbean countries so they can advance on fulfilling the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a context of acute financial weakness due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of natural disasters, among other factors, during a session of the fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development. The panel entitled Building forward better in the Caribbean post-COVID-19: Critical issues to keep the 2030…

Closure of Asymmetries, Financing for Development and Global Public Goods – Key to a Transformative Recovery Aligned with the 2030 Agenda

17 Mar 2021 | News

Participants in the debates taking place on the second day of the fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which is being held virtually under the Presidency of Costa Rica, posed the need to close the financial, climatic and health asymmetries present in the world today, to guarantee financing for development, and to create global public goods – including an equitable vaccine against COVID-19 – in order to move towards a transformative recovery in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. During Panel 1: Health and…

Alicia Bárcena: The Current Health and Climate Crises are the Result of an Unsustainable Development Model

5 Feb 2021 | News

“The current health and climate crises are the result of an unsustainable development model. Both are global public ills. They arise from the destruction of nature and require collective, simultaneous action along with international cooperation,” underscored Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), during a virtual keynote lecture organized by the Oxford University International Development Department (United Kingdom). The current development model, explained Bárcena, is associated with, among other things, a falling rate of pr…

ECLAC Urges Economic Recovery Based on Environmental Sustainability and Equality

1 Feb 2021 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, urged the countries of the region today to implement a post-pandemic economic recovery based environmental sustainability and equality, through new internal and international political coalitions and unprecedented forms of cooperation to sustain the change in development style. The United Nations high official made remarks today at the XXII Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Government of Barbados in its capacity as president of th…

ECLAC Analyzes the Behavior of the Region’s Foreign Trade during the COVID-19 Pandemic

18 Jan 2021 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Friday, January 22 its annual flagship report entitled International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2020, which examines the behavior of the foreign trade of the region’s economies in the last year, with the most recent figures available on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in distinct countries. More specifically, this edition of the document is composed of three chapters, examining the evolution of global and regional trade after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, analyzing the ev…

School of Latin American Development Studies Kicks Off 2021 Activities with a Seminar on Geopolitics, Trade and Economic Integration

8 Jan 2021 | Announcement

ECLAC’s School of Latin American Development Studies will commence its activities in 2021 on Monday, January 11 with an inaugural seminar on geopolitics, trade and economic integration, which will be held virtually. This is the twenty-first session of the School, which has been bringing postgraduate students from across the world together every year since 2000 to study development-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The School convenes prominent experts and researchers from universities in Latin America, Europe and the United States to offer an analysis (one that is plural and…

ECLAC: Concrete Opportunities Exist for Deepening the Partnership between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union with a View to a Green, Digital, Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery

14 Dec 2020 | News

"COVID-19 represents a time of choices. Both regions – Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean – need to take urgent measures to overcome the current health and economic crisis and to build a new path for development in the framework of a renewed partnership," Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during a high-level meeting between foreign affairs ministers from both regions that was organized by the Government of Germany. In her remarks, Bárcena stressed the importance of middle-income countries and the debat…

ECLAC Highlights the Importance of Industrial Policy to Build Back Better in the Region after the COVID-19 Pandemic

13 Nov 2020 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) highlighted today the importance of the region having an industrial policy that incorporates innovation, technical progress, equality and sustainability as drivers of economic growth, to be able to overcome the current crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and build back better, during a high-level virtual seminar organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The international webinar on “Industrial policy and the road to recovery” was commenced by the Director General of UNIDO, LI Yong, and…

Alicia Bárcena Urges for Restoring Policy as an Instrument of Change and Forging Compacts that Would Lay the Foundation for Building a Welfare State

11 Nov 2020 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, urged today for restoring policy as an instrument of change and for forging social compacts that would lay the foundation for building a welfare State, during a seminar entitled “Social and Economic Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Pandemic Period,” organized by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Flacso) Chile. ECLAC’s highest authority was one of the main speakers at the event, which featured the participation of Miguel Cera-Hatton, Minister of E…

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