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Secretary-General meets staff at ECLAC’s headquarters

4 Mar 2015 | News

Staff members from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) thanked United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his support in rebuilding the organization’s headquarters, an icon of modern Latin American architecture, after an earthquake that affected central and southern Chile in February 2010. Ban Ki-moon visited Santiago on an official mission from February 26 to March 1. During his third official visit to Chile, Mr. Ban participated in a high-level event organized by UN Women and Chile’s government, and his agenda included a town-hall meeting at ECLAC’s hea…

Secretary-General of the United Nations visits Paraguay and Chile

24 Feb 2015 | Announcement

The Secretary-General will travel for an official visit to Asuncion, in Paraguay, on Tuesday, 24 February, before heading to Santiago of Chile on 27 February. In Paraguay, the Secretary-General will hold bilateral meetings with President Horacio Cartes and Foreign Minister Eladio Loizaga, as well as other senior officials and civil society representatives. In Chile, the Secretary-General will attend the high-level event on “Women in power and decision-making: Building a different world”, aimed at reflecting the last 20 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The Secr…

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…

Authorities and Experts Warn about Digital Exclusion of Rural Women and Youth

11 Dec 2014 | News

Authorities, experts and representatives from Chilean farmer organizations met today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile to discuss policies aimed at overcoming inequalities in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in rural areas of Chile and Latin America and the Caribbean, especially among women and young people. The seminar ICT in the Rural World: A New Way of Innovating for Women and Young People was organized by ECLAC and Chile’s Foundation for Agricultural Innovation (FIA). Participants in the …

ECLAC meeting secures commitment to Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

3 Dec 2014 | News

The Caribbean technical meeting on the Beijing +20 review and appraisal of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action took place at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago Chile, on 14 - 15 November 2014. The meeting focused attention on the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, and provided a forum for reflection on the ongoing gender concerns facing the Caribbean subregion during the past two decades. Participants from 10 member and two associate member states of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Com…

“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 …

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 …

Illiteracy Affects Almost 38 Million People in Latin America and the Caribbean

2 Dec 2013 | News

On average, 9% of those aged 15 and over are completely illiterate in Latin American and Caribbean countries (about 38 million people), according to estimates based on official data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, says a study prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which examines the main relevant strategies currently developed in the region. If we consider functional illiteracy (which means the lack of skills and abilities that people need to function in various life situations), the figure is significantly higher - according to the documen…

ECLAC and OECD Analyzed Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

13 Nov 2013 | News

Experts from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a Regional Consultation on Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean on 14-15 November 2013, at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile. During the event specialists, policy makers and practitioners from Latin America and the Caribbean dialogued on the dimensions of inclusive growth, its conceptualization and measuring, as well as the policies that can be put in place to combine strong output growth with a more even distribution of …

Latin America Requires Innovation, Growth and Distribution Policies

1 Oct 2013 | News

Latin America requires innovation, growth and income-distribution policies all at the same time if it is to tackle pending challenges for development, according to a new publication from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters in Mexico. In the document Economic growth, innovation and inequality in Latin America: Post-Washington Consensus advances, setbacks and issues, authors Gabriela Dutrénit, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Martín Puchet Anyul (with the collaboration of Eduardo Moreno) examine the development of the region's economi…

Workshop in Montevideo Analyses Taxation of High Incomes to Reduce Inequality

1 Oct 2013 | News

At the Workshop on inequality and high income tax, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 1 and 2 October, representatives from governments and academia discussed the tools available to Latin American countries to tax high incomes and improve equitable distribution. The workshop was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), along with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and Uruguay's Centre for Fiscal Studies (CEF). The event was opened by Juan Pablo Jiménez, Director of the ECLAC office in Montevideo, F…

Uruguayan Minister of Economy and Finance Opened 2013 ECLAC Summer School

23 Jul 2013 | News

See photo gallery "There is no way of making balanced progress towards greater levels of development and well-being while ignoring what is happening in the production base" of our countries, according to Fernando Lorenzo, Uruguayan Minister of Economy and Finance, speaking on Tuesday 23 July at the opening of the 14th Summer School on Latin American Economies 2013, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Each year, the School brings together post-graduate students from Latin America, Europe and Asia, who are given the opportunity to find out about the…

2013 ECLAC Summer School Will Be Opened with Presentations on Structural Change

19 Jul 2013 | News

On Tuesday 23 July 2013 at 10.00 a.m., Uruguayan Minister of Economy and Finance, Fernando Lorenzo, will take part in the opening of the 14th Summer School on Latin American Economies 2013, which is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The activity will be led by Juan Alberto Fuentes, Director of the ECLAC Economic Development Division, who will deliver a presentation on macroeconomic trends in Latin America and the Caribbean. Then, Minister Lorenzo will speak about "Productivity and structural change in Uruguay: the recent trajectory", followed by …

UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the Application of Rights-Based Public Policies

13 Jun 2013 | News

See photo galery United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, called for public policies to be focused on overcoming the structural obstacles that prevent the poorest from enjoying their economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), at the end of a seminar today in ECLAC. At the International seminar on indicators for economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) and follow-up to social policies to overcome poverty and achieve equality, which was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Chile's National Hum…

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