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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 “…

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Define in Mexico a New Digital Agenda With a View to 2018

22 Jun 2015 | News

A new digital agenda (eLAC2018), capable of responding to the new challenges faced by the region’s countries in the context of the global technology revolution, will be defined on August 5-7 during the Fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will take place in Mexico City, Mexico. The meeting is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the government of Mexico. Working groups will discuss matters such as access and infrastructure, digital economy, e-Government, governance of Internet and socia…

ECLAC Trains Officials of the Region in Assessment of Disasters

19 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, is strengthening the capacity of specialists and officials of Latin American and Caribbean countries to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters, with activities in Peru, Costa Rica and Saint Vicent and The Granadines. In the case of Peru, the training session in Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) was conducted in Cusco from 16 to 19 June at the request of the National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction. This course served as the first …

Chinese Premier Will Give Keynote Lecture at ECLAC

14 May 2015 | Announcement

Li Keqiang, the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, will give a keynote lecture on Monday, May 25, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he will be received by the Executive Secretary of the regional United Nations organization, Alicia Bárcena. The event will be held at 3:45 p.m., local time in Chile, in the Raúl Prebisch conference room. It will also be broadcast live on the Internet via ECLAC’s website: ://www.cepal.org/es/cepal-en-vivo The senior official will visit Chile during a tour…

ECLAC Will Host Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development

11 May 2015 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host from June 24 to June 26 the Second Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be attended by delegates from the region’s countries whose main objective will be to define an operational guide on population and development measures. This operational guide will be presented at the Second Meeting of the Regional Conference, which will be held in Mexico on October 6-9, and will serve as the basis for the implementation and follo…

Countries Will Launch Negotiations on a Regional Instrument on Rights Related to Access in Environmental Matters

30 Apr 2015 | Announcement

Representatives of countries in the region will meet from May 5-7, 2015, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, to start the negotiations phase for a regional instrument on access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters. The first meeting of the Negotiating Committee for the regional agreement on access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean will provide follow-up to the agreements adopted in the framework of the process initiated in …

ECLAC Participated in Education, Skills and Labour Market Panel during High Level Segment of ECOSOC

1 Apr 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), represented by its Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado, took part in the panel Finding the Opportunities: Matching Education and Skills to Market Demands, held this Wednesday 1 April in New York as part of the 2015 Integration Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The panel, moderated by Mr. Prado, was formed by Elizabeth A. Vazquez, CEO and Co-Founder, WeConnect International; Ron Bruder, Founder, Education for Employment; and Zach Sims, Co-founder and CEO, Codecademy. The experts discussed…

ECLAC and IDLO Join Forces to Advise the Region’s Countries on Economic Policies Oriented towards Sustainable Development

31 Mar 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) will cooperate on economic and juridical matters to support the region’s countries in the design of economic policies oriented towards boosting sustainable development, including those measures aimed at mitigating climate change impacts. The two organizations signed a cooperation agreement to this effect last January, which will contribute to the development and strengthening of ECLAC and IDLO’s scientific and research work. On the part of ECLAC, the implementation of t…

ECLAC and UNAIDS Sign Agreement to Support the Regional Response to HIV/AIDS

24 Mar 2015 | News

With the goal of promoting and facilitating cooperation on matters related to the regional response to HIV/AIDS, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Latin America signed a memorandum of understanding this month in Santiago, Chile. The agreement, signed by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and the Regional Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), César Núñez, states that both institutions share the commitment to promote universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support, reduce…

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 …

OECD, ECLAC and CAF to Launch their Joint Latin American Economic Outlook 2015

5 Dec 2014 | Announcement

The eighth edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook: Education, Skills and Innovation will be launched on Tuesday 9 December at 8:30am in the margins of the Ibero-American Summit at the Conventions Center, World Trade Centre, in Veracruz, Mexico. This year’s edition focuses on how the region can increase the levels and quality of education and skills in order to foster productivity and competitiveness as well as a more inclusive society, in a context of growth slowdown. The report will be presented by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America a…

“We Need a New State-Market-Society Equation”

11 Nov 2014 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, participated during the World Economic Forum (WEF), held from 9-11 November 2014 in Dubai, in the launch of the Global Think-Tank Community, which aims to generate analyses based on data and recommendations from a diverse array of geographic and substantive perspectives. The initiative brings together 25 leading policy and research institutes and will advise WEF members and constituents on key issues facing the international community, with emphasis on the new challenges of the …

Unasur's Secretary General Ernesto Samper Visited ECLAC

17 Sep 2014 | News

The new Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), former Colombian President Ernesto Samper, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile on Tuesday, September 16, meeting with Alicia Bárcena and Antonio Prado, the United Nations organization's Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretary. At the meeting, the senior representatives analyzed the challenges that Latin America and the Caribbean faces today and discussed how to strengthen the fruitful cooperation that has developed between the two …

ECLAC and Latin American Business Council Sign Agreement

20 Aug 2014 | News

A framework technical cooperation agreement aimed at facilitating the development of joint activities to support competitiveness and the technological modernization of the region's businesses was concluded on Tuesday 19 August 2014 by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Latin American Business Council (CEAL) in Santiago, Chile. The agreement - which was signed by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, and the President of CEAL, Samuel Urrutia - will be in force for five years, and includes actions to help devise strategies to enhance productio…

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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