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ECLAC’s Committee on South-South Cooperation Will Contribute to the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda

25 May 2016 | News

The member countries of the Committee on South-South Cooperation, a subsidiary body of ECLAC, approved today—as lines of action for the 2016-2018 period—the exchange of experiences on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the promotion of associations of multiple actors, and the exchange of experiences and good practices regarding methodologies and measurement of South-South cooperation. Meeting in the framework of the thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), being held in Mexico, the representatives also agreed t…

New Global Initiative Launches at COP21 to Boost Green Growth Financing

7 Dec 2015 | News

As part of a global effort to rapidly accelerate the financing of green growth projects in emerging economies, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), an intergovernmental organization that supports strong, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth in developing countries, announced today the launch of the Inclusive Green Growth Partnership, a new collaboration with top multilateral development banks and United Nations regional economic and social commissions. The Inclusive Green Growth Partnership, announced at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Conv…

Experts Address Local Finance Challenges in Ibero-American Countries

9 Sep 2015 | News

Authorities, experts and scholars from numerous Ibero-American countries met on September 1-2 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, to discuss the challenges of public provision of goods and services and its financing at different levels of government in the region, and its impact on economic development, equality, and social and territorial cohesion. During the IV Ibero-American Conference on Local Finance 14 research papers were presented—out of more than 50 submitted initially—regarding issues of fiscal and financial t…

Experts Call for New Rules to be Defined on Financing for Development

14 Jul 2015 | News

There is an urgent need to define new rules for financing sustainable development in the world, participants in the side event Regional Perspectives on Implementing an Ambitious, Transformative Sustainable Development Agenda agreed. The event was hosted on Tuesday, July 14 by the five United Nations regional commissions, of which ECLAC is one, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During the event—which took place in the framework of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, being held through July 16 in Ethiopia—the U.S. economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz called for “…

Ministers and Experts Will Debate in Addis Ababa the Challenges to Finance the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

8 Jul 2015 | Announcement

Ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, along with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, will participate in an event on the challenges faced by the region to finance its development, in the framework of the international conference on this matter that will take place on July 13-16 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event, which will address the domestic mobilization of resources and the international financial governance from the perspective of mi…

ECLAC Highlights Strategic Regional Action in Defining Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

24 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean remains committed to providing assistance to Caribbean countries, as the region prepares a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be included in the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda, declared today its Director, Diane Quarless. The head of the ECLAC Caribbean office opened the Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, organized by the UN Commission, with the support of …

Trinidad and Tobago will host a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

22 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean will convene a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Caribbean within the post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 24-25 June. This meeting, supported by the Caribbean Development Bank, brings together Ministers and senior policy makers in the fields of planning and development, the environment, and social affairs, to consider among the SDGs those goals that are central to the sustainable development needs of the Caribbean. Specifical…

ECLAC panel discussion explores innovative financing solutions for the Caribbean

8 May 2015 | News

The Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, moderated a panel discussion at the Forum on the Future of the Caribbean on Thursday 7 May 2015, where he outlined important areas of focus for countries of the region, like the need to address the issue of debt relief in a sustainable manner and the possibility of mobilizing resources through diaspora bond issue and increased remittances. The session, entitled Advocating innovative financing solutions, which examined opportunities that exist for domestic and international deve…

Regional Consultation on Financing for Development Will Be Held at ECLAC

11 Mar 2015 | Announcement

The Latin American and Caribbean Regional Consultation on Financing for Development will be held on March 12-13, 2015, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The meeting will be attended by authorities and ministers from various countries in the region as well as senior representatives from the United Nations and other regional organizations, who will address relevant matters in preparation for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which will take place in July in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event…

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…

Development Banking in the Region Offers Mechanisms for Internationalization of SMEs

2 Dec 2014 | News

Development banking in the region has made efforts to facilitate the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), given that most of their financing programs include these companies among their targets (92 %), establish flexible terms (36 %) and demand guarantees or endorsements adjusted to their possibilities, according to a report recently published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The figures of the study Financing of International Trade and the Role of Development Banking in Latin America and the Caribbean (available on…

Thirty Years after the Debt Crisis, the Region Has Better and Cheaper Access to International Bond Markets

5 Mar 2014 | News

Thirty years after the debt crisis erupted in 1982, Latin America and the Caribbean has higher-quality and cheaper access to the international bond market, which is the second-biggest source of external financing after foreign direct investment (FDI), according to a new study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The document, entitled Debt financing rollercoaster: Latin American and Caribbean access to international bond markets since the debt crisis, 1982-2012, shows that during the biennium of 2010-2011, bond flows toward Latin America and the Caribbea…

Study Analyzes the Viability of Expanding the Latin American Reserve Fund to Other Countries in the Region

5 Mar 2014 | News

A new study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), entitled A regional reserve fund for Latin America, analyzes the viability of expanding the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR) to five more of the region's countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay. In September, however, Paraguay was incorporated into the FLAR, whose other members include Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Founded in 1978, the FLAR is the only regional fund of Latin American reserves and it was formed as an organization in which members mak…

Mario Cimoli Analyzed the Socioeconomic Context in the Region in View of the Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Calling for Strengthening of Regional Cooperation

29 Aug 2025 | News

Mario Cimoli, Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), analyzed the complex socioeconomic context in the region today in view of the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine at a meeting with the permanent representatives of the regional Commission’s member countries held at United Nations headquarters in New York. The meeting was convened by the UN Permanent Missions of Costa Rica and Argentina in their respective capacities as outgoing and incoming president of ECLAC. The meeting was opened by Ambassador Rodrigo Carazo, Permanent Rep…

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