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Relations with China are Important for Latin America and the Caribbean to Move Towards More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Development

7 Aug 2024 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, stressed the importance today of the strategic and historical relationship between China and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, during a high-level international seminar held at the United Nations regional commission’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile. “The region is immersed in a trap of low growth capacity, from which it must urgently escape. ECLAC recommends that countries energize and redirect their economic growth, making it not only higher and…

ECLAC’s New Annual Economic Report Will Update Growth Projections for the Region’s Countries in 2024 and 2025

5 Aug 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release next Tuesday, August 13 its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024: Low-growth trap, climate change and employment trends, one of the institution’s flagship annual economic reports in which it takes stock of the region’s economies in recent months and updates its growth estimates for each country in 2024 and 2025. In this edition corresponding to 2024, the report analyzes the regional economic performance and presents economic growth projections for this year and next year. In addition to exa…

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary: Accurate, Up-to-date and Comprehensive Data are Crucial for Measuring Development Gaps and Traps

29 Jul 2024 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, stressed the importance today of data and statistics for moving towards more productive, inclusive and sustainable development, during Brazil’s National Conference of Data Producers and Users, where he spoke on behalf of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. “It is only through open and transparent cooperation among public institutions, academia, the private sector and civil society that we can make significant advancements in the production of high-qualit…

ECLAC Will Present Updated Figures on Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean and Proposals for Increasing It

25 Jul 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch on Thursday, August 1, at 11 a.m. local time in Chile (UTC/GMT-4) an annual report entitled Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, which provides an overview of how these flows have evolved at a global, regional and national level. This year the publication also proposes a series of guidelines for increasing this kind of investment on a national and subnational scale, as well as for boosting its impact on productive transformation. The document’s main conclusions will be unveiled by José…

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Presented in Spain a Special Edition of the CEPAL Review with his Vision for a More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Development

22 Jul 2024 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, presented today in Spain a recent special edition of the CEPAL Review, the organization’s main academic publication, published on the occasion of the Commission’s 75th anniversary (celebrated in 2023), in which he offers his vision regarding the major transformations needed for the region to move towards a more productive, inclusive and sustainable development model. The senior United Nations official gave a keynote lecture based on his own article published in the Rev…

ECLAC Participated in Special Meeting of the Economic and Social Council on Care and Support Systems

19 Jul 2024 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed today its commitment to a society where care is a central part of prosperous, sustainable, and just economies during a special meeting on care and support systems organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York. In a recorded message, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, stated that “care is at the foundation of life’s sustainability and is key to achieving social justice and renewing the social contract. The concept of a care society excites, calls upon, and r…

ECLAC Reaffirms its Proposal for Economic and Social Transformation to Hasten Implementation of the 2030 Agenda at High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

17 Jul 2024 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed its proposal for economic and social transformation to hasten implementation of the 2030 Agenda, during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), which is taking place through Thursday, July 18 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, actively participated in several of the global forum’s plenary sessions and side events, where he shared his vision for moving towards a more productive, inclusive and sustai…

Experts Address Financing for Biodiversity Protection

12 Jul 2024 | News

On May 2, 2024, a seminar entitled Financing for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Towards a New Financial System for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action was held in Bogotá, Colombia, organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia. The event aimed to facilitate discussion of the importance of the financial system playing a more active role in the transition to nature-positive development models that would foster improved productivity and great…

Seminar: Teaching and Doing Research on Macroeconomics with a Gender Perspective

12 Jul 2024 | News

On March 19-20, 2024, the Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Uruguay organized an international seminar and discussion on gender and macroeconomics, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Economics Department of the University of the Republic (UDELAR) of Uruguay, and the Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI-INET). The event, which took place at UDELAR’s School of Economic Sciences, featured a keynote lecture by the distinguished Professor Özlem Onaran of the University of Greenw…

SIDS4: Charting the Course Toward Resilient Prosperity for Islands… and the World

11 Jul 2024 | News

The Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) has produced a wide-ranging and ambitious outcome document: the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for SIDS (ABAS), which establishes a clear action path for the survival, resilience and sustainable development of small islands around the world. ABAS is the fourth international agreement on road mapping a sustainable development path for small islands. It follows the Barbados Program of Action (1994), the Mauritius Strategy (2005) and the Samoa Pathway (2014). It is a long-negotiated document that seeks to address how the sm…

Exports Between MERCOSUR Countries Showed Resilience Amid a Fall in the Rest of the Bloc’s Sales Abroad

5 Jul 2024 | News

Exports of goods from the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) fell by 4.1% in 2023, driven by a 7.2% drop in international prices for the exported goods, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates in a new document. This occurred in the context of normalization of the international supply of goods after the COVID-19 pandemic and the start of the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and it was offset by a 3.2% rise in volume attributable to improved agricultural harvests in Brazil and Paraguay. A new edition of the Foreign Trade Bulletin of MERCO…

Authorities, Experts and Academics from Across the World Meet at ECLAC to Examine Industrial and Trade Policies Using Input-Output Analysis

2 Jul 2024 | News

More than 250 academics, scientists, researchers, innovators, educators and policymakers from across the world and from diverse fields will be gathering on July 2-5 in Santiago, Chile at the 30th International Input-Output Association (IIOA) Conference and 12th Edition of the International School of I-O Analysis. The event – convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the IIOA – is supported by Andrés Bello University, the Central Bank of Chile and the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main theme of the conference is “Rethinking industrial and tra…

How to Follow the Fifth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

30 Jun 2024 | News

The Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on July 3-4 at the Convention Center in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The meeting will be preceded on July 2 by side events and activities carried out by civil society. The Conference will be opened by Luis Gilberto Murillo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia; Javier Medina Vásquez, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Susana Sottoli, the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the …

Colombia’s Foreign Minister, ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, UNFPA’s Regional Director and Other Senior Authorities Will Inaugurate Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development

28 Jun 2024 | News

WHAT: Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Luis Gilberto Murillo; the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Javier Medina Vásquez; the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Susana Sottoli; the Minister of Development Planning of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Sergio Cusicanqui; and the Ambassador-at-large of Honduras for Women’s Affairs and Chair of the 5…

ECLAC: Recognizing and Measuring the Multiple Dimensions of Social Inequality is Crucial for Achieving Sustainable Development

27 Jun 2024 | News

The evaluation of social well-being requires adding other indicators, including other social inequality indicators, to the Gini index on income. Recognizing and measuring the multiple dimensions of social inequality is a necessary precondition for overcoming the trap of high inequality and low social mobility and social cohesion in which Latin America and the Caribbean is caught and which hinders the region’s progress towards sustainable development, Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of the Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), empha…

ECLAC Urges for Implementing a New Governance to Properly Manage the Transformation of Development Models in the Region

26 Jun 2024 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, stressed the importance today of having new governance systems to properly manage highly necessary transformations in development models in the region, during the inauguration of the First International Congress on Open State and Governance, organized by ECLAC, the International Academic Open Government Network (RAGA Internacional) and the National University of Costa Rica (UNA). “Governance comprises the institutional dynamics, coordination dynamics and incenti…

ECLAC’s Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development Will Take Place on June 25-27, Focused on Social Protection and Inequality

10 Jun 2024 | Announcement

WHAT: Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development “Social Protection and Inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean towards the Second World Summit for Social Development of 2025” Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), this event will take place on June 25-27, 2024, using a hybrid format, with the participation of senior government officials, academics and specialists from international organizations. The seminar – which will be inaugurated on Tuesday, June 25 at 9:30 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT-4) at ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago …

Latin America and the Caribbean represent 7.3% of global GDP

30 May 2024 | News

The International Comparison Program (ICP), in which the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) participates, today published the new Purchasing Power Parities (PPP) for the 2021 cycle. According to the results of the 2021 cycle, Latin America and the Caribbean represent 7.3% of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 8% of the world's population. This report is based on data collected during the 2021 cycle, in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The results show that the size of the world economy was almost 152.4 tri…

Colombia Will Host the Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

27 May 2024 | Announcement

WHAT: Fifth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Senior representatives of governments, regional and international institutions, the private sector, academia and civil society will address the achievements of the Montevideo Consensus along with its implementation challenges 30 years after the adoption of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), during the Fifth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, which will take place on July 3-4 at the Convention Ce…

High-Level Country Representatives To Explore How Climate Change Legislation Can Bolster Climate Finance In The Caribbean

14 May 2024 | News

The OPCC is a network of Latin American and Caribbean parliamentarians and governmental technical officers that aims to bolster the region's environmental and climate change legislation. It promotes cooperation among parliamentarians to achieve sustainable, low-carbon economies and enhanced resilience. National legal frameworks in the Caribbean need to evolve to rapidly address the increasing challenges of climate change. OPCC members benefit from participating in this initiative by accessing and sharing expertise with peers from the region, providing a valuable knowledge resource in the proce…

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