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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…

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