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Alicia Bárcena Reaffirms Need for a New Development Model at High-level Forum alongside Noam Chomsky and Nobel Prize Winner Mario Molina

15 Nov 2017 | News

“Latin America and the Caribbean needs to move toward a new development paradigm based on equality and environmental sustainability as the drivers of growth. The current model, capitalism, doesn’t work,” Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated this Wednesday, November 15, at a high-level forum held in Mexico City. Bárcena participated in the opening session of the international forum The Siege Upon Civilization: From Wall to Wall – organized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the University o…

Specialists Underscore Importance of Integrating Statistical and Geospatial Information and Discuss Priorities for Regional Strategic Plan

14 Nov 2017 | News

In a context of accelerated geopolitical, economic and technological changes, with pressing phenomena such as migration and climate change, the countries of the region – via the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) –are working on a strategic plan to integrate statistical and geospatial data and thereby make progress on achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena, said today in Aguascalientes, Mexico. “Humanity will need all available instruments to transform our developmen…

Mexico will be Host to the Ninth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

10 Nov 2017 | Announcement

Authorities and representatives from national statistics offices and National Statistical Systems of the member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will gather in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico for the Ninth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region, which will be held on November 14-16, 2017. The event – organized by the government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), and ECLAC – will continue promoting inter…

ECLAC Advocates for the Combined Use of Traditional Statistics and Big Data for Measuring SDGs

19 Sep 2017 | News

Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), advocated today in New York for developing mechanisms for governance of official and unofficial statistics to measure the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which she said would entail the participation of all stakeholders, including States and major companies. “We have to combine traditional statistics with big data and georeferenced data for sustainable development and humanitarian purposes,” ECLAC’s most senior representative said at a high-level side event entitl…

ECLAC Will Launch Social Panorama of Latin America 2016

24 May 2017 | Announcement

On Tuesday, May 30, 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch a new edition of its flagship annual report on issues of social development. The report, published since 1991, will be unveiled at the regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The institution’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the document Social Panorama of Latin America 2016 at a press conference at 11:00 a.m. The launch will be broadcast live online via ECLAC’s website at: ://www.cepal.org/en. The study focuses on the measurement and analysis of diverse…

ECLAC Hosts Regional Meeting, the First of its Kind Globally, between the Statistics and Geospatial Communities of Latin America and the Caribbean

5 Apr 2017 | News

Members of the statistics community, represented by the Statistical Conference of the Americas, and of the geospatial information field, grouped together in a United Nations committee of experts, held today the first meeting of its kind carried out at a global level, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. This joint meeting was inaugurated by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena; Mario Palma, Vice President of Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), in his role as Chair of the Executive Comm…

ECLAC looks to expand access to data from 2010 and 2020 census

12 Oct 2016 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is seeking to expand public access to data from the 2010 round of population and housing censuses. These efforts will also provide a sound basis for a more rapid and effective dissemination of data from the upcoming 2020 round of censuses. In the long term, improved online access to these data sources will encourage their use in research, development planning and evidence-based policymaking. Online access to census data sets is provided through the REDATAM (REtrieval of DATa for small Areas by Microcomputer) software. RED…

Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development Will Follow Up on the 2030 Agenda

21 Jun 2016 | News

The creation of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development was approved by government representatives gathered at ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, held on May 23-27 in Mexico City. This new entity will constitute the regional mechanism for follow-up and review of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its targets, their means of implementation and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development. This is stated in the “Mexico Resolution,” approved by foreign affai…

Countries in the Region Will Analyze Statistics Framework for Follow-Up to the 2030 Agenda

13 Jun 2016 | Announcement

Representatives of national statistics institutes from countries in the region will participate on June 14-16 in Santiago, Chile in the XV Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), a subsidiary body of ECLAC, where attendees will analyze measurement and statistical coordination mechanisms for follow-up to the 2030 Agenda and will approve the activities planned for the 2016-2017 period. The meeting will be inaugurated by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena; the Vice President…

ECLAC and Argentina’s Ministry of Social Development Sign Cooperation Agreement

18 Apr 2016 | News

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Carolina Stanley, Argentina’s Minister of Social Development, signed on Monday, April 18 a Framework Agreement of Technical Cooperation between both institutions with the aim of facilitating joint activities. The agreement includes developing indicators and information systems for the design of public policies; assessing policies, instruments of support and institutions to foster sub-national areas; carrying out seminars, conferences and courses; and the training and exchange of staf…

South-South Cooperation is a Key Tool for Achieving the 2030 Agenda’s Goals

13 Apr 2016 | News

South-South cooperation is an essential tool and will play a key role in advancing towards the development pattern promoted by the 2030 Agenda, authorities from various countries and international experts said at a seminar held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The international seminar Ibero-America Faced With the Challenge of the Sustainable Development Goals: The South-South Cooperation Perspective—organized by the Ibero-American Program for the Strengthening of South-South Cooperation, the Chilean International Co…

New skills for government statisticians in Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and Saint Kitts and Nevis

4 Apr 2016 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) are jointly hosting a Regional Capacity Building Workshop in Kingston, Jamaica from 04-15 April 2016. The event, also a collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will provide technical training to 17 persons from the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Saint Kitts and Nevis to promote wider use and analysis of national Population and Housing Census data. Experts from ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile and its Caribbean office …

Mobile phone signals assist Caribbean in containing spread of Chikungunya

3 Mar 2016 | News

Information generated from mobile phones can be successfully used to contain the spread of non-communicable diseases, as was recently done to stem the spread of the Chikungunya virus in the Caribbean. This opportunity was explained in the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently published report titled “An assessment of big data for official statistics in the Caribbean”. The report notes that the use of big data through geospatial (or location) information was used to support healthcare, and to design social intervention measures to address …

Recapping this Year through the Lens of ECLAC

29 Dec 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published in 2015 diverse studies regarding the economic, social and environmental situation in the region, including six flagship annual reports that provided statistical information, timely analysis and short- and medium-term outlooks on issues as varied as the expansion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the behavior of foreign investment and international trade, and the evolution of poverty and inequality. On January 26, ECLAC presented the Social Panorama of Latin America 2014, in which it indicated that 167 million people …

Latin America and the Caribbean Adopts Regional Instrument to Harmonize Time-Use Surveys

3 Dec 2015 | News

The recently approved Classification of Time-Use Activities for Latin America (CAUTAL) enables countries to obtain a comprehensive and organized view of the activities that people carry out and the time they dedicate to each of these, providing in this way inputs and evidence for the formulation of public policies on gender equality. This tool for planning, processing, presenting and analyzing time-use surveys was adopted during the eighth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which took place in Quit…

Caribbean researchers to maximize use of census microdata

24 Nov 2015 | News

The options for expanding access to census microdata were the focus of discussion at a Webex expert group meeting (EGM) convened by ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 23rd November 2015, with participation from representatives of national statistical offices (NSOs), representatives of data archives and some United Nations agencies. The EGM examined how Caribbean census microdata can be made more widely available to researchers. It considered techniques for anonymizing microdata and options for the dissemination of anonymized data set…

Heads of Statistics Will Analyze the Challenges of 2030 Agenda in Quito

12 Nov 2015 | Announcement

Representatives of national statistics offices in American countries and experts from international organizations will attend the Eight Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCA-ECLAC), in Quito, Ecuador, on November 17-19, 2015, where they will analyze the statistical challenges of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, will open this event, which will be held in the Presidents’ Room at the Union of South American …

Data revolution for sustainable development: The Caribbean Challenge

21 Aug 2015 | News

The Caribbean region needs to take full advantage of the data revolution. Big data - a critical element of this revolution - is the term used to describe the enormous amount of digital information that is generated when people go about their daily activities, including shopping, talking, texting, internet surfing, and traveling. It also includes information about natural phenomena generated and/or transmitted by machines, including satellites. The main characteristics of these data that qualify them as Big data are that they are large in volume, they are generated very frequently and they cove…

ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

26 Jun 2015 | News

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…

ECLAC Recommends Improving Statistics to Measure Territorial Development

31 Mar 2015 | News

The international comparability of territorial statistics in Latin America has limitations that, among other factors, are associated with the scant coverage of sub-national indicators in the region’s countries and to the differences in the institutional and political-administrative structures that exist among them, a recent study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) shows. The document The Comparability of Territorial Statistics in Latin America (only available in Spanish) analyzes two key sources of information on economic and social matters: the sub-national…

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