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Companies must Change Business Model to Adopt Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

19 Apr 2018 | News

Leaders of large companies and representatives from the Latin American and Caribbean business world met today at ECLAC with government authorities and international experts to assess private sector participation in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed upon by the United Nations in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. During the second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, underway at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, participants in the meeting on “The role of the business sector in generating su…

Distinguished Economist Samuel Bowles Will Give a Keynote Lecture at ECLAC

8 Mar 2018 | Announcement

The distinguished US Economics Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute (in Santa Fe, New Mexico), Samuel Bowles, will give a keynote lecture at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, next Tuesday, March 13. In the framework of a visit to Chile, Professor Bowles will offer a talk entitled “The Origins and Future of Economic Inequality: Institutions, Technology and Politics” at 11 a.m. in ECLAC’s Raúl Prebisch conference room. He will be welcomed by the Executive Secretary of the Unit…

What is the Bioeconomy and How Developed is it in Latin America and the Caribbean

14 Dec 2017 | News

“There is great potential in Latin America for developing the bioeconomy as an alternative for diversifying production and adding value in the rural setting, especially in the agricultural and agroindustrial sectors,” indicates a new study published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), entitled Bioeconomía en América Latina y el Caribe: contexto global y regional y perspectivas (Bioeconomy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Global and Regional Context and Perspectives). Despite this potential, the concept has received little public policy attention from coun…

The Manufacturing Industry Continues to be Decisive in Development Processes in the Region, ECLAC says

14 Dec 2017 | News

What do we mean when we talk about structural change? And what do we mean by industrial policy? These are the first two questions that the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) tries to answer in its recently launched book Manufactura y cambio estructural: aportes para pensar la política industrial en la Argentina (Manufacturing and Structural Change: Contributions for Thinking about Industrial Policy in Argentina). The 336-page book describes the main restrictions faced by the Argentine manufacturing industry in recent decades, analyzes the scope and e…

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…

China and ECLAC Strengthen their Cooperation to Foster Trade and Investment with Latin America and the Caribbean

9 Nov 2017 | News

In the context of a tour through China, ECLAC’s Director of the Production, Productivity and Management Division and Officer-in-Charge of its International Trade and Integration Division, Mario Cimoli, met this Thursday, November 9, with government authorities from that country and participated as the main speaker in the China-Latin America and the Caribbean International Exposition (CLAC Expo), one of the biggest business gatherings between both areas. The official from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) – who traveled to China in representation of Alicia Bárc…

Experts Agree Role of Region’s MSMEs Must Be Rethought to Integrate Them into Fourth Industrial Revolution

10 Oct 2017 | News

The fourth industrial revolution underway is forcing a rethinking of the role of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean and requires policies that enable the development of capacities to successfully compete in today’s productive systems, which are characterized by their dynamism, experts agreed during a meeting organized by the Euromipyme project in Mexico City. The Regional Seminar Latin America and Europe in the Face of Technological Disruption: A New Era of Policies and Institutions for MSMEs began today in Mexico with the participation of Susa…

ECLAC Organizes Seminar in Mexico to Debate New Generation of Policies and Institutions for Region’s MSMEs

2 Oct 2017 | Announcement

On October 10-11 in Mexico City, the Regional Seminar Latin America and Europe in the Face of Technological Disruption: A New Era of Policies and Institutions for MSMEs will be held to examine the technological changes that are producing sharp tensions in agents of production and government authorities of the region. The event will be streamed live via the Internet. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the framework of the Euromipyme project, developed with the European Union, this gathering is aimed at policy makers, specialists and representativ…

Strategies to Support MSMEs in the Region Will Be Discussed at Two Events in Chile and Mexico

4 Sep 2017 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is organizing two international events to discuss support strategies for the region’s micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), in the framework of the Euromipyme project carried out by the United Nations regional organization and the European Union. The first of these, entitled International Gathering and Commercial Networks for Business Development Centers, will be held on September 12-14 at the Intercontinental Hotel and at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, drawing more than 200 participants. Currently, Busi…

ECLAC Analyzes Structural Gaps in Development in Argentina’s Provinces

4 Sep 2017 | News

ECLAC’s Office in Buenos Aires presented, in two new publications, studies about the main conditioning factors to achieving inclusive and sustainable development found in the Argentine provinces of Tucuman and Chaco. The studies were carried out based on the perspective of structural gaps, with a view to contributing along with subnational governments to determining strategic areas for public intervention to close the existing gaps and to producing an assessment that serves to support strategies to attract financing in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The studies w…

ECLAC Will Present Updated Figures on Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

4 Aug 2017 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch its annual report Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017 on Thursday, August 10, at 11 a.m. at the United Nations regional body’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. At a press conference, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the main conclusions of the study, which analyzes the global and regional evolution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows. The press conference will be transmitted live on the Internet via the organization’s website (://www.cepal.org/en/eclac-liv…

Central America Should Have a Regional Competition Authority, New ECLAC Study Proposes

14 Jun 2017 | News

The coordination of Central American competition policy would contribute to improving market functioning in the subregion and would reinforce competition in each country, according to the study Overview and challenges of competition policy in Central America (Spanish only). The publication by the Subregional Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico analyzes how the requirements of the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union – which establishes that all countries must have an effective competition policy – have co…

Authorities and Specialists Agree that Latin America and the Caribbean Needs to Understand Emerging Technologies to Assess their Opportunities and Risks

27 Apr 2017 | News

To board the fourth industrial revolution “train” and avoid being razed by the technological “tsunami,” the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must first understand what this global process is about, identify the sectors that can harness new technologies and assess the potential benefits and costs of their use, authorities and specialists agreed at a special session on artificial intelligence that took place during the first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development in Mexico City. The goal of this session was to have a first …

Eco-Innovation: What It Is, and How It Can Be Measured in Latin America and the Caribbean

15 Mar 2017 | News

Green innovation —or eco-innovation— can be described in general terms as the introduction, by any area within a company, of a new or significantly improved product, process or method for marketing or organization in order to create economic benefits and reduce environmental impact. This topic is examined in depth in two new documents from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The first of these, Eco-innovation and green production: An overview of policies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish only), aims to explain the factors that guide eco-innovatio…

How Can Big Data Analytics Be Used for Development in the Region? Specialists meet at ECLAC

24 Feb 2017 | Announcement

Key concepts, trends, strategies and new applications of big data analytics will be presented and debated on Monday, March 6, 2017, at the seminar Think Big: Data innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The management and analysis of the great quantities of data produced by the use of digital technologies (such as mobile telephones, electronic transactions and social networks) are effective instruments for innovating in business administration, the provision…

Applications Open for the Eighteenth Session of the ECLAC Summer School

10 Feb 2017 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has announced the start of the application process for the 2017 Summer School on Latin American Economies, a training programme for young researchers interested in studying Latin America’s development process. The Summer School’s eighteenth session will be held from 20 July to 8 September 2017 at the headquarters of the United Nations Regional Commission in Santiago, Chile. The registration period ends on 10 April and the list of selected candidates will be published on 17 April. The Summer School is organized by the ECLAC Di…

ECLAC Calls for Closer Economic Ties between India and Latin America and the Caribbean

9 Dec 2016 | News

Economic ties between India and Latin America and the Caribbean are beginning to develop, and there are ample opportunities for expanding international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and cooperation between these two important regions. That is the conclusion reached by a new document published by the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters in Mexico. The report Strengthening the relationship between India and Latin America and the Caribbean was presented by ECLAC at the seventh India–Latin America & Caribbean Conclave, held in the Mexican city of Guadalajara on 28 and 29 November 2016. The …

Latin America and the Caribbean Have Great Potential for Strengthening their Economic and Cooperative Ties with China

9 Dec 2016 | News

Latin America and the Caribbean have great potential for improving their economic and cooperative ties with China, a country that has already become the region’s second-largest trading partner, according to a new ECLAC document presented during the visit made by President Xi Jinping to the headquarters of the United Nations Regional Commission in Santiago, Chile, on 22 November 2016. The report Economic Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean and China: Opportunities and Challenges (in Spanish) was presented by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, at the Summit of Media …

Costa Rica Will Host the Second Meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and ICTs of ECLAC

7 Sep 2016 | Announcement

The Second Session of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will kick off next Monday, September 12, at 6 p.m. local time in San Jose, Costa Rica. The event will coincide with the inauguration of the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR 2016), which will bring together representatives of government, industry and ICT associations, as well as academics, to analyze the latest proposals aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted by the United…

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Discuss Policies for Innovation in a Digital World

1 Sep 2016 | Announcement

“Innovation in a Digital World” is the motto of the Second Session of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) of ECLAC, which will bring together representatives of government, the private sector and international organizations on September 12 and 13 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The meeting, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Costa Rica’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications, has the support of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the European Commission. Th…

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