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Authorities from the Region Will Discuss the Challenges of Transforming Institutional Frameworks for Development Planning

26 November 2024 | Announcement

Government representatives will address the challenges of transforming development planning along with current and new requests for training in the region, among other issues, at the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), which will take place on November 27-28, 2024 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The event will be inaugurated on Wednesday, November 27 at 9 a.m. local time in Chile…

ECLAC Urges for Implementing a New Governance to Properly Manage the Transformation of Development Models in the Region

26 June 2024 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, stressed the importance today of having new governance systems to properly manage highly necessary transformations in development models in the region, during the inauguration of the First International Congress on Open State and Governance, organized by ECLAC, the International Academic Open Government Network (RAGA Internacional) and the National University of Costa Rica (UNA). “Governance comprises the institutional dynamics, coordination dynamics and incenti…

ECLAC Will Release New Figures on Poverty and Inequality in the Region and on the Silent Crisis in Education

21 November 2022 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Thursday, November 24, 2022 its flagship annual report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2022, which includes new data on inequality and poverty in the region and on the silent crisis in education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The document will be unveiled by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, at a hybrid press conference (in-person and virtual) held from Santiago, Chile at 11 a.m. local time (UTC/GMT-3). This edition of the Social Panorama analyzes the sil…

PAHO and ECLAC Present Joint Report on the Prolonged COVID-19 Health Crisis and Its Impact on Health, the Economy, and Social Development

11 October 2021 | Announcement

WHAT: The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present their joint report The prolonged health crisis and its impact on health, the economy, and social development. The report, the second by the two organizations since the beginning of the pandemic, defines potential scenarios for control and evolution of the pandemic in the short term and details recommended actions to strengthen government capacity to respond to the health needs of populations. WHEN: Thursday 14 October, at 10 am Washingto…

ECLAC Will Launch Report that Addresses the Forging of Political and Social Compacts to Face the Post-COVID-19 Era

14 October 2020 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 11 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT-3) its Special Report COVID-19 No. 8, entitled Political and social compacts for equality and sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-COVID-19 recovery, which poses, among other things, that the rule of law and human rights must be at the center of the recovery. The document will be presented during a web seminar by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, and will be commented upon by Beatriz Paredes Rangel, Senat…

Alicia Bárcena Underlines the Importance of Open Government Principles for Monitoring Resources Dedicated to the Post-Pandemic Recovery

24 September 2020 | News

"Open Government advocates for a significant increase in transparency, access to information and accountability, which, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, is crucial to ensuring the efficient and effective use of resources for response and recovery," Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said in a video message transmitted during the Virtual Leaders Summit of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), held on Thursday, September 24, 2020. The Open Government Partnership proposes creating a space so that civil society and th…

Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy Celebrates 30 Years in Existence Analyzing the Public Finances of Latin America and the Caribbean

21 March 2018 | Announcement

The Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, one of the main points of reference for discussing issues related to Latin American and Caribbean countries’ public finances, will hold its 30th session in 2018. The event, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will be held on March 26 and 27 at ECLAC’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The meeting, which is also sponsore…

Economist Mariana Mazzucato Will Give Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC

31 March 2016 | Announcement

Renowned Italian-American economist Mariana Mazzucato will deliver next Tuesday, April 19 the XIV Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture Series at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where she will be received by the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena. Mazzucato, who is a Professor in the Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, will present at 11.00 a.m. a lecture entitled “Entrepreneurial State: Creation of Markets…

ECLAC Advocates a New Architecture to Position the State as the Driver of Development

7 September 2015 | News

One of the main challenges today is to position the State in the most fitting place for the future and create a new state architecture that allows it to be the driver of development strategies in the region’s countries, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, said during the inauguration of a seminar that was held in Brazil on September 3-4, 2015. The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the International Seminar on the Role of the State in the 21st Century: Challenges for Public Management,…

Haiti Needs to Strengthen Its Social Protection System for Childhood and Adolescence

30 March 2015 | News

The Haitian State must play a more active role in the social protection system oriented towards childhood and adolescence in the country, in order to improve its quality, broaden its coverage, achieve stable financing and overcome today’s fragmentation, according to the study Promoción y protección social de la infancia y adolescencia en Haití (Promotion and Social Protection of Childhood and Adolescence in Haiti), prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Despite the fact that 47.7 % of Haiti’s population is under 20 years old (2012), and around half liv…

“We Need a New State-Market-Society Equation”

11 November 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 …

Seminar Analyzing Global Trends by 2030 Brings International Experts Together at ECLAC

17 September 2014 | Announcement

Ten experts from the United States, China, the Republic of Korea and Europe will attend the Seminar Latin America and the Caribbean in 2030: World Visions, continental Views, which aims to consolidate a network of professionals and organizations dedicated to studying future global trends and their implications for public policy in the region. The event will take place September 24-25 in Santiago, Chile. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), the semi…

Strengthening Social Protection Systems in the Framework of a Welfare State is an Urgent Task in Latin America and the Caribbean for Tackling Multiple Crises

8 May 2025 | News

Strengthening social protection systems in the framework of a welfare state is an urgent task in Latin America and the Caribbean amid the prolonged COVID-19 crisis, the economic and social repercussions of the war in Ukraine and the widespread vulnerability of the region’s countries to ongoing emergencies and disasters, according to the speakers at the opening session of the International Expert Meeting “Towards the consolidation of a welfare state in Latin America and the Caribbean: the future of social protection in an era of uncertainty”, which is taking place virtually this Wednesday, June…

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