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Seminar: Teaching and Doing Research on Macroeconomics with a Gender Perspective

12 July 2024 | News

On March 19-20, 2024, the Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Uruguay organized an international seminar and discussion on gender and macroeconomics, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Economics Department of the University of the Republic (UDELAR) of Uruguay, and the Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI-INET). The event, which took place at UDELAR’s School of Economic Sciences, featured a keynote lecture by the distinguished Professor Özlem Onaran of the University of Greenw…

Productive Development Policies are Key to a Better Production and Work Future and to Fostering Economies’ Global Integration

26 October 2023 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, participated on Thursday, October 26 in the “Dialogues on Uruguay’s Future,” where he reiterated the importance of Productive Development Policies (PDP) as catalysts for higher-quality international economic integration – especially in small economies – and for a better future in terms of production and work in the region’s countries. The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the two events held in Montevideo in the framework of the “Dialogues …

New Study by ECLAC Analyzes the Impacts of the War in Ukraine on Uruguay’s Economy

23 December 2022 | News

What impact has the war in Ukraine had on the Uruguayan economy? A new publication of the Studies and Perspectives Series of ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo analyzes these precise effects. The study entitled Economic Impacts of the War in Ukraine: A View from the Region and Uruguay (in Spanish only) verifies initially that this war represents a crisis of major proportions that overlaps with others that are also very significant, such as the financial crisis of 2008 and the pandemic crisis – which constitute what ECLAC has called a “cascade of crises.” As a result, the world and Latin America and …

Participants Analyze Digitalization’s Impacts on Social Inclusion, Education and Labor Policies, Agriculture and Trade in the Region

17 November 2022 | News

Six panel discussions dedicated to issues such as digitalization for greater inclusion, competences and skills for societies in transformation, cybersecurity and critical assets, digital solutions for agriculture, and digital trade and SMEs, among others, took place on the second day of the Eighth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is being held in Montevideo, Uruguay through this Friday, November 18, 2022. Representatives of government, the private sector, the technical community and civil society from the region are participating in th…

ECLAC Proposes Measures and Actions for Moving Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Digital Transformation

16 November 2022 | News

“The future is digital, and the longer that countries take to increase access and smart and massive use of the digital economy’s opportunities, the more they will delay harnessing its enormous benefits,” José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), emphasized today upon presenting the document A digital path for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which guides the work of the Eighth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, being held through Friday,…

How to Follow the Debates of the Eighth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

14 November 2022 | News

Representatives of government, the private sector, the technical community and civil society will participate on November 16-18, 2022 in the Eighth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Conference, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Uruguay, through the Agency for the Development of Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (Agesic), aims to define a set of policy priorities at the regional level to driv…

Uruguay Will Host the Eighth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

14 September 2022 | News

On November 16-18 of this year, the Eighth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place in Montevideo, bringing together the main leaders and decision-makers on digital matters from the region’s public and private sectors, the technical community and civil society. The Conference – organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in conjunction with the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay – aims to define a set of policy priorities at a regional level for furthering the digital tran…

ECLAC Document Analyzes the Targeting Instruments of Cash Transfer Programs in the Region

13 March 2020 | News

ECLAC’s office in Montevideo, in the framework of a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay, analyzed the targeting mechanisms used by Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in the region and in Uruguay specifically, with the aim of helping to improve the tool utilized in that country’s programs. The study (only in Spanish) systematizes the CCT programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on information regarding their target population, the mechanism for selecting beneficiaries, the criteria used to update their socioeconomic information, and the ma…

Policy to Incentivize Replacing the Automobile Fleet with Electric Vehicles Is Seen Affecting Tax Collection in Uruguay

9 December 2019 | News

In the framework of a cooperation agreement between ECLAC and the Planning and Budget Office of the Presidency of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, the United Nations regional organization’s office in Montevideo carried out a study on the revenue impact of tax policy incentives for replacing the automobile fleet with electric vehicles. In line with global trends, Uruguay has developed a tax benefit scheme to stimulate the incorporation of electric vehicles. Current vehicle-related tax collection accounts for approximately 10% of the total revenue of the General Taxation Directorate (DGI), repr…

Uruguay Presented its National Development Strategy through 2050, with Support from ECLAC

27 September 2019 | News

Uruguay’s government presented its National Development Strategy to 2050, which lays the foundations for that country to move towards sustainable development, in a ceremony held in Montevideo with the participation of the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena. The Strategy puts together an extensive set of long-term opportunities for the country, which were identified with the collaboration of hundreds of experts from state entities, business chambers, social and trade-union organizations, academia, and international organiza…

XIV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean Will be Presented to the Media at ECLAC

3 September 2019 | Announcement

The preparations for and main themes of the XIV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean – which will be held on November 4-8, 2019 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile – will be shared with members of the media at a press conference this Friday, September 6, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the United Nations regional organization’s building. The press conference will be led by Isabel Plá, the Minister of Women and Gender Equity of Chile, which is the host country of the XIV Regional Conference on Women,…

Uruguay Will Host Two Important Meetings on Planning for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

21 August 2019 | Announcement

Ministers, deputy ministers and other senior authorities from the region’s countries, along with representatives of civil society and United Nations organizations, will analyze the progress and challenges related to planning for development in Latin America and the Caribbean during the XVI Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning and the XVII Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP), which will be held on August 28-30 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Participants in these gatherings will analyze the challenges, experiences and perspectives on planning for development in the region, along…

Women’s Affairs Ministers from Latin America Participated in Virtual Meetings in Preparation for the Regional Conference that Will Take Place in November in Chile

27 June 2019 | News

Ministers for Women’s Affairs and senior authorities from mechanisms for the advancement of women in Latin America participated on June 26 and 27 in two virtual meetings in preparation for the XIV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (a subsidiary body of ECLAC), which will take place on November 4-8, 2019 in Santiago, Chile. On Wednesday, June 26, the subregional preparatory meeting with Central American countries, Mexico and Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries was held. This gathering, co-organized by ECLAC and UN Women, was inaugurated by Isabel Plá, Chile’s Mini…

ECLAC supports training Uruguayan government officials on Computable General Equilibrium Models

17 June 2019 | News

With support from the Uruguay office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the first of two workshops aimed at training government officials in the theory and practice of Computable General Equilibrium Models (CGEM) took place at the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Montevideo from Thursday, June 6 to Tuesday, June 11. This tool allows for building equation systems that link merchandise markets, economic activities, production factors, institutions and foreign relations, in an integrated framework. They are based on Social Accounting Matrixes, and their …

Specialists at ECLAC agreed on the need to rethink labor informality in the region, in the light of technological change

3 April 2019 | News

It is necessary to rethink the phenomenon of labor informality considering both the structural gaps that persist in Latin America and the Caribbean and the technological transformations that are developing rapidly in the world. This was the shared opinion of specialists, gathered at a two-day event at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The international seminar New and Old Forms of Labor Informality and Precarious Employment was inaugurated on Wednesday, April 3rd by Mario Cimoli, ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary, and Man…

Study Analyzes Options for Measuring Monetary Poverty in Uruguay

13 March 2019 | News

The future availability of a new Household Spending and Income Survey for Uruguay will enable the assessment of a new official measurement of income poverty in the country. In light of this process, ECLAC’s office in Montevideo edited a new publication that explores the different options for its construction. The document, Measurement of Monetary Poverty in Uruguay: Concepts, Methodologies, Evaluation and Alternatives (No. 37 in the Studies and Perspectives Series by ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo, in Spanish only), reviews the available methodological options and the influence that some of thes…

New Study Addressing Uruguay’s Public Policies for Childhood is Presented

10 December 2018 | News

The publication Public Policies Aimed at Childhood: Contributions from Uruguay was presented at a seminar held on November 12, 2018. The study arose from collaboration between Uruguay’s Ministry of Social Development (MIDES, through the National Office for Evaluation and Monitoring), ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and it reflects these institutions’ efforts to contribute elements of interest for public policy design. The seminar was led by Uruguay’s Minister of Social Development, Marina Arismendi; the Director of ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo, Ver…

Public Officials from Uruguay Receive Training on National Accounts and Social Outlays

25 June 2018 | News

Public officials from diverse entities in Uruguay participated, from June 11 to 14, in a course about National Accounts and Social Outlays organized by the office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Montevideo in the framework of a cooperation agreement with that country’s Ministry of Social Development. The course was led by ECLAC’s Regional Adviser on Economic Statistics, Federico Dorín. His objective was to train participants in the measurement of social outlays based on information from the national accounts system, incorporating not just information f…

ECLAC Studies Origin of Value in Uruguayan Exports

27 March 2018 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) did a study that breaks down the added value of goods exported from Uruguay by sector and place of origin. The report Origin of Value in Uruguayan Exports was produced in the framework of the Cooperation Agreement between ECLAC’s Montevideo Office and the Uruguayan Ministry of Economy and Finances. The study indicates that trade agreements modify the conditions of competition between the tradable sectors of an economy, generating winners and losers. It adds that, when international negotiations are involved, it is advisable f…

ECLAC Studies Effects of Law for More Flexible Access to Retirement Pensions in Uruguay

12 December 2017 | News

The office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Montevideo, Uruguay carried out two studies that analyze the changes introduced in the law for more flexible access to retirement pensions (Law 18.395), promulgated in 2008 in that country, thanks to an agreement with the Uruguayan Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Center for Fiscal Studies (CEF). This law introduced an important set of measures aimed at enabling more flexible access to social security. These modifications had an impact on diverse aspects of people’s well-being as well as on fiscal accou…

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