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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 …

Alicia Bárcena: Parliaments Have a Critical Role to Play in the 2030 Agenda’s Implementation, Follow-up and Review

26 Apr 2021 | News

Parliaments have a critical role to play in the implementation, follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), underscored today during a virtual presentation made before the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. “You are the ones who enact laws that support fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals, adopt budgets, monitor accountability, promote the integration of distinct citizen perspectives, and debate on how the SDGs can be meaningfully adapted at national …

Experts Stress the Need to Create a New Financing Model, at the Conclusion of the Thirty-Third Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy

23 Apr 2021 | News

The XXXIII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, one of the main forums of reference for discussing issues related to the public finances of Latin American and Caribbean countries, concluded this Friday, April 23, with three webinars featuring prominent specialists who debated matters of financing for development, tax evasion and illicit flows, as well as climate finance. The final day of the seminar – which has served for 33 years as a high-level, multilateral regional space for exchanging opinions about the region’s macroeconomic and fiscal policies and challenges – began with a webinar entitle…

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…

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: 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 Will Update its Economic Growth Estimates for the Region’s Countries in 2020 and Provide New Projections for 2021

11 Dec 2020 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Wednesday, December 16 its flagship annual report entitled Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2020, which examines the performance of the region’s economies this year and updates growth figures and other indicators that reflect the impact countries have borne as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. More specifically, the document will contain new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates for the region and all of its countries in 2020, and it will provide a first growth estimate…

The Caribbean Needs Urgent International Support to Face High Indebtedness, Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Costs of the Pandemic: ECLAC

28 Oct 2020 | News

Caribbean countries, especially the small island States, need support from the international community to confront the “perfect storm” that is looming over them: heavy indebtedness and a liquidity crisis, vulnerability to climate change, and high expenditures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said on Tuesday 27 October during a panel on “Challenges for the Caribbean to build back better,” held in the framework of the thirty-eighth session, which is taking place virtually through Wednesday, O…

Foreign Ministers and High-level Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean Sign a Political Declaration for a Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Recovery in the Region

26 Oct 2020 | News

Ministers of Foreign Affairs and high-level authorities from Latin American and Caribbean countries signed a political declaration today for a sustainable, inclusive and resilient recovery, in the framework of the thirty-eighth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is taking place virtually from October 26 to October 28. The declaration was unveiled during the Dialogue of ministers of foreign affairs and high-level authorities of Latin America and the Caribbean on the post-pandemic economic recovery, which was inaugurated by Rodolfo Solano, Minis…

Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda in the Post COVID-19 World Will Necessitate a New Global and Regional Compact: ECLAC

25 Sep 2020 | News

Presentation by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary (PDF in Spanish). The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stated this Friday that fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the post COVID-19 world necessitates a new global and regional compact that would include a renewed development model oriented towards greater well-being and environmental sustainability, in remarks made during a dialogue entitled “SDG acceleration as a road map for building back better,” which was organized by the govern…

Alicia Bárcena Reviewed with Caribbean Authorities Progress on the Debt for Climate Adaptation Swap Initiative, Including the Creation of a Resilience Fund

23 Sep 2019 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, met this Monday, September 23, with Prime Ministers Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda, Allen Chastanet of Saint Lucia, and Ralph Gonsalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, to review progress on the Debt for Climate Adaptation Swap Initiative, including the creation of a resilience fund proposed by the Commission for small island Caribbean states. During the meeting – which took place in the framework of the Climate Action Summit and the 74th session of the United Nations Gene…

Caribbean Countries Face Complex Challenges to Advancing on Fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda

24 Apr 2019 | News

The current international political and economic context has meant that Caribbean countries face a difficult situation today in diverse areas, ranging from the effects of natural disasters to a shortage of resources, complex access to financing, narrow fiscal space for introducing social reforms, and the burden of high levels of indebtedness, among other problems. All these challenges, which hamper progress toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, were analyzed today by authorities from various countries of the subregion in the framework of the third meeting of the Forum o…

The Private Sector Has the Opportunity to Contribute to Mobilizing Resources for Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in the Region

22 Apr 2019 | News

The role of the private sector is key to the challenge of mobilizing financing sources and mechanisms for implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the region, business representatives, delegates and international officials agreed during the Business Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019: Public-Private Strategies for the Financing and Monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals, held on Monday, April 22, in Chile. The event, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Uni…

International Cooperation Must Change its Approach to Respond to Latin America and the Caribbean’s Own Needs

3 Oct 2018 | News

International development cooperation must change and move from the traditional approach to one that responds to the particular needs of Latin America and the Caribbean, senior government authorities from various countries in the region and United Nations officials indicated today during the Eighth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation, which took place at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The meeting – carried out in the framework of “Development in transition week,” which runs from October 2 to 5 – was inaugurated by the Executive Sec…

ECLAC, the European Union and the Government of Chile Organize a Week Dedicated to “Development in Transition”

28 Sep 2018 | Announcement

On Thursday, October 4, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, a high-level dialogue entitled “Development in transition: development challenges in a changing world” will take place, with keynote addresses by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization; Neven Mimica, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development of the European Union (EU); and Roberto Ampuero, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile. After these speeches, the authorities in attendance wi…

Alicia Bárcena: “We Must Advance toward a Regional Agenda on Inclusive Social Development on the Road to 2030”

26 Oct 2017 | News

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), called today for progress in designing a regional agenda on inclusive social development that would allow countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contained in the 2030 Agenda, which was approved by the international community in 2015. ECLAC’s most senior representative presented the position document Linkages between the social and production spheres: Gaps, pillars and challenges, which is the subject of debate at the Second Meeting of the Regional Conference on Soc…

Middle Income Countries Require Differentiated and Fair Access to Financing for Development: Alicia Bárcena

21 Sep 2017 | News

Middle income countries require differentiated access to the mobilization of external resources, capital markets, concessional financing and trade, along with bolstered instruments to attract quality foreign direct investment, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), contended today. The regional organization’s most senior representative participated in the second high-level ministerial meeting of like-minded nations that support middle income countries, which was held in New York and coordinated and organized by the Foreign Mi…

ECLAC Analyzes Structural Gaps in Development in Argentina’s Provinces

4 Sep 2017 | News

ECLAC’s Office in Buenos Aires presented, in two new publications, studies about the main conditioning factors to achieving inclusive and sustainable development found in the Argentine provinces of Tucuman and Chaco. The studies were carried out based on the perspective of structural gaps, with a view to contributing along with subnational governments to determining strategic areas for public intervention to close the existing gaps and to producing an assessment that serves to support strategies to attract financing in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The studies w…

Financial Inclusion of SMEs is Fundamental for their Productive Insertion

4 Sep 2017 | News

In the last three decades the financial sector has grown significantly, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, where it has expanded about 18% on average. According to ECLAC, this growth necessitates the design and construction of an inclusive financial system dedicated to productive financing, which is particularly relevant to the region’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The financial inclusion of SMEs, and the innovation policies that regional development banks can apply in this area, were the subject of a seminar held on August 16-17 in Lima, Peru, organized by the Econom…

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…

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