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ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

26 June 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 Study on Foreign Direct Investment puts focus on the Caribbean

27 May 2015 | News

The Caribbean receives higher amounts of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) when compared to other developing economies, according to a newly published report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Entitled “Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean”, the flagship report was launched by ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, on 27 May at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. This year, the annual report places increased emphasis on the importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the Caribbean. FDI inflows into the Carib…

ECLAC assists member states

15 January 2015 | News

Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis are set to benefit from technical assistance provided by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean in 2015. ECLAC will assist the government of Antigua and Barbuda in the development of a national trade policy, in addition to providing technical support through two undertakings. The first will be a functional review of the Ministry of Trade, Commerce and Industry. The second will be a review of the country’s National Consumer Protection Mechanisms. The latter activity will …

Caribbean Economic Growth Set To Increase in 2015

2 December 2014 | News

The Caribbean economy has experienced increased growth in the last year, moving from 1.4% in 2013 to 1.8% in 2014, with even more positive prospects for 2015, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the launch of the flagship report: “Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014”. This was presented by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena at the Commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on 2 December 2014, and was broadcast online and via videoconference. Following this launch, the ECLAC subregional headq…

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