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Agricultural Sector Expected to Be Worst Affected by Climate Change in Bolivia

6 Aug 2014 | News

The Study of the Economics of Climate Change in Bolivia, presented on Monday 4 August in La Paz, provides the first estimate of the costs of climate change based on biophysical and economic analyses of the links between climate and production sectors. The document was coordinated by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with contributions from the Ministries of Environment and Water, Economy and Public Finances, Development Planning and External Relations of Bolivia. On average, total losses caused by climate cha…

Central America Grew More than Latin America As a Whole between 1990 and 2011, but Inequalities Remain

2 Jun 2014 | News

Between 1990 and 2011, Central America and the Dominican Republic posted an average annual growth rate of 4.6%, which was higher than the figure of 3.2% for Latin America as a whole. However, this growth did not result in a dramatic reduction of the huge inequalities among the subregion's countries and inside each one, according to a new publication from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The publication Structural change and growth in Central America and the Dominican Republic - an overview of two decades, 1990-2011, has been coordinated by the Director …

Experts Will Discuss the State of Latin American and Caribbean International Insertion and Integration

2 Jun 2014 | Announcement

The role played by foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in development, as well as integration agreements of Latin American and Caribbean countries and their place in global value chains, will be analysed at a two-day seminar to be held in Santiago, Chile, on 3 and 4 June. Osvaldo Rosales, Director of the International Trade and Intregration Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Michael Penfold, Director for Public Policy and Competitiveness at CAF (Latin American Development Bank), and Masataka Fujita, Head of the Investment Is…

Governments Will Discuss Innovation and Cooperation for Inclusive Development at ECLAC

2 Jun 2014 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Uruguay-among other countries-will participate on June 9-10, 2014, in the First Meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The meeting, which will also be attended by international officials and representatives of cooperation agencies, is organized by ECLAC and Chile's Foreign Relations Ministry, with the support of the German Agency For…

ECLAC Holds in Buenos Aires Seminar on Macroeconomic Policy and Production Structure in the Region

2 Jun 2014 | News

In Buenos Aires on 24 and 25 April, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a Seminar-workshop on production structure, institutions and economic dynamics, which was attended by Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado. The meeting was also attended by the Director of the Buenos Aires Office, Martín Abeles, various other ECLAC officials and economists working in universities, research centres and public institutions in Argentina. Antonio Prado stated that "macroeconomic policy must be linked with the development process". According to the senior ECLAC of…

Authorities and Civil-Society Representatives Discussed Situation of People with Disabilities

2 Jun 2014 | News

The situation of people with disabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean was analysed at a meeting held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, on 30 May. At the event, representatives of organizations for people with disabilities and their families took part in a dialogue with observers from the Government of Chile, local human-rights organizations and United Nations system agencies. The aim of the meeting, which was opened by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Mauro Tamayo Rozas, Director of the Chile…

Energy Efficiency Strategies Are Urgently Needed to Improve Competitiveness of Region's Ports

2 Jun 2014 | News

More than 95% of South America's exports is moved through ports. Therefore, the energy consumption of the port infrastructure is increasingly relevant to the competitiveness and sustainability of infrastructure services and the activities of the transport and logistics sector. This point is emphasized in a report by ECLAC's Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division that was published recently in the latest edition of the FAL Bulletin on Facilitation of Transport and Trade in Latin America. According to the study, the traffic of refrigerated containers with perishable goods in Sou…

ECLAC Organizes Seminar in Quito on Public Policies in Light of Climate Change

28 May 2014 | News

To provide a space for reflection on public policies related to climate change, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold a seminar this Thursday and Friday, May 29-30, in Quito, Ecuador, called "Public Policies in the Face of Climate Change: Pro-development Measures, Environmental Tax Reforms and Progress on Universal Social Protection in Latin America." The event-which will take place in the framework of the EUROCLIMA Program, funded by the European Union-will be attended by government officials and international experts from Europe and Latin America. The …

UN Women Calls on Global Citizens to Bring Gender Equality into Focus

22 May 2014 | News

New York - UN Women today launched a major campaign in the lead-up to the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the historic Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. A year of activities around the world will aim to mobilize governments and citizens alike to picture a world where gender equality is a reality and to join a global conversation on empowering women to empower humanity. Events will focus on achievements and gaps in gender equality and women's empowerment since 189 governments adopted the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This visionary blueprint pa…

ECLAC Will Present in Lima Proposals for a Sustainable Future in the Region

14 Apr 2014 | News

"The sessions are ECLAC's most significant event because they gather together all its Member States and Associate Members to analyze the situation in Latin America and the Caribbean," Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations organization, said during an informational meeting with ambassadors held this Monday, April 14, in Santiago, Chile. This was the last meeting of its kind before the Thirty-fifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place May 5-9 in Lima, Peru. The previous informational meetings were held in …

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…

ECLAC Publishes Three Studies Analyzing Cities' Responses to Climate Change

5 Mar 2014 | News

Diverse strategies for urban planning and climate change mitigation and adaptation are examined in three documents published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which alert countries to the consequences that this phenomenon can trigger in the region's big cities. Even though Latin America and the Caribbean generates only 5 percent of the planet's greenhouse gases (GHG), the impact of climate change could be devastating, according to the study Low Carbon Development Strategies in Latin America's Megacities (Spanish only), prepared in the framework o…

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…

Climate Change Could Prompt a Drop of up to 50% in Central America's Basic Grains Production

5 Mar 2014 | News

By the end of the century, climate change could prompt a decline in the production of corn, beans and rice in Central America-key to its people's food security-of 35 %, 43 % and 50 %, respectively, according to a recent study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The report, entitled Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Basic Grains in Central America (only available in Spanish) and published by ECLAC's Sub-regional headquarters in Mexico, calculates this on the basis of two scenarios projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch…

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…

ECLAC Promotes Better Governance of Natural Resources to Maximize their Contribution to Regional Development

5 Mar 2014 | News

In a new publication, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) poses the need to promote better governance of natural resources in the region to maximize their contribution to development with equality and sustainability, as well as to foster the long-term structural change associated with innovation and technological development that reduces dependence on extractive sectors. The report, entitled Natural resources: status and trends towards a regional development agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, is an ECLAC contribution to the debates inside …

ECLAC presents a forward-looking document about global transformations in Latin America

13 Jan 2014 | News

The promotion of long-term regional thinking is an imperative for Latin America that can't be put off, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and Michael Shifter, President of the Inter-American Dialogue, agreed in the prologue of the document Global Trends and Latin America's Future, by Chilean Sergio Bitar, which will be presented this Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at the Mexican Embassy in Santiago, Chile. Along with the author and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the presentation will be attended by the Ambassador of Mexico…

Germany's Government Seeks ECLAC's Support for Regional Initiative on Sustainable Management of Mining Resources

26 Dec 2013 | News

The First Secretary of Economic, Technological-Scientific and Cooperation Matters at Germany's Embassy in Chile, Annette Weerth, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, on Friday, December 20. That day she delivered an official note to the director of the United Nations organization's Programme Planning and Operations Division, Raúl García-Buchaca, in which Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) requested ECLAC's support to implement a regional cooperation project for the sustainable managem…

ECLAC and Peru's Government Launch Political Dialogue to Boost Women's Economic Autonomy

18 Dec 2013 | News

A few months before the thirty-fifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is to be held in Lima, Peru, representatives of the Peruvian government and officials from the United Nations organization agreed to launch the project "Political Dialogue for the Economic Empowerment and Autonomy of Women." The project -which will get technical assistance from ECLAC, specifically from the Economic Development and Gender Affairs divisions- aims to bring to light the situation of Peruvian women in the productive, labor and economic arenas and identify public poli…

Quito, Cuenca and Panama City Were Net Recipients of Immigration in the Past Decade

2 Dec 2013 | News

Quito, Cuenca and Panama City were net recipients of migration in the past decade, whereas Mexico City and Guayaquil posted a negative migration balance, according to a study published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to analyse the migratory pull of eight Latin American cities and the impact on suburban spread. The research published in Notas de Población N° 96 Review, entitled "Internal migration in the major Latin American cities: effects on demographic growth and population composition" (only in Spanish), was carried out by the sociologist and dem…

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