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Authorities and Globally Renowned Experts Analyzed the Traps Hindering Latin America and the Caribbean’s Development, at a High-level Seminar Held During ECLAC’s Fortieth Session

10 October 2024 | News

What are the vital transformations needed to overcome the development traps in which Latin America and the Caribbean is mired? And how can countries achieve stronger and sustained growth while also reducing inequality and fostering inclusion and social mobility? These pressing questions were addressed by authorities from numerous countries in the region and experts of recognized standing, on the second day of the Fortieth Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is taking place in Lima, Peru. On this Thursday, October 10, a High-level Seminar began …

New Report Calls on Government Leaders in Latin America to Advance Modern Industrial Strategies Oriented Around Climate and Inclusion Goals

25 October 2022 | News

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) of University College London (UCL), presented today a new report in which she addresses transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean, at a side event of the thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is taking place on October 24-26 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The document entitled Transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mission-oriented approach, which was commissioned by ECLAC, was unveiled at the …

Science, Technology and Innovation are Crucial for Facing the Pandemic and Moving Towards a Transformative Recovery with Equality and Sustainability in the Region

13 December 2021 | News

Science, technology and innovation (STI) are crucial not only for facing the COVID-19 pandemic, but also for moving towards a transformative recovery with equality and sustainability in the region, authorities and international officials indicated today during the inauguration of the Third Meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies, organized under a hybrid format by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Argentina. The event, which will conclude on Wednesday, December 15, was inaugurated i…

ECLAC Highlights the Importance of Industrial Policy to Build Back Better in the Region after the COVID-19 Pandemic

13 November 2020 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) highlighted today the importance of the region having an industrial policy that incorporates innovation, technical progress, equality and sustainability as drivers of economic growth, to be able to overcome the current crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and build back better, during a high-level virtual seminar organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The international webinar on “Industrial policy and the road to recovery” was commenced by the Director General of UNIDO, LI Yong, and…

The Development Model Must Be Changed to Roll Back Latin America and the Caribbean’s Environmental Tragedy: Specialists

29 October 2020 | News

“Sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean is at risk. We will only be able to attain well-being by favoring ecology and the environment. The market does not actually perceive the environment’s dilemmas, it treats them as externalities. The urgency of the situation must lead us to a systemic view,” Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said during the Wednesday, October 28th launch of the book The environmental tragedy of Latin America and the Caribbean. The book, presented during the regional organization’s…

How to Follow the Debates of ECLAC’s Most Important Intergovernmental Conference on October 26-28

24 October 2020 | News

From October 26 through October 28, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold its thirty-eighth session, the most important biennial meeting of this United Nations regional commission, which has the mandate of contributing to the region’s economic, social and environmental development. The virtual event will be inaugurated on Monday, October 26, at 08:15 a.m. Costa Rica time (GMT -6) by Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica, the country currently holding ECLAC’s presidency pro tempore; Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba; António G…

The Presidents of Costa Rica and Cuba, along with the UN Secretary-General, Will Inaugurate ECLAC’s 38th Session

23 October 2020 | Announcement

The presidents of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, and Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, along with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, will participate in the inaugural segment of the thirty-eighth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place virtually on October 26-28, 2020. Additional participants in the event’s inauguration will include Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary; Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); and Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Dire…

Amid this Harsh Pandemic and During the Recovery, We Cannot Lose Sight of the Enormous Environmental Challenge: Alicia Bárcena

10 July 2020 | News

Presentation by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC “In these difficult times, we must be careful because environmental standards are being relaxed. We cannot afford this. We are facing a global public ‘bad’ – the COVID-19 pandemic – but the next one will be the climate crisis. We must build back better and that means doing so with equality and sustainability,” Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during a high-level virtual event organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation…

New Special Report by ECLAC Analyzes COVID-19’s Impacts on Latin American and Caribbean Businesses and Production Sectors and Proposes Policies for the Emergency and the Reactivation

1 July 2020 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present tomorrow, Thursday, July 2, Special Report COVID-19 No. 4 on monitoring the economic and social effects of the coronavirus in the region, entitled Businesses and sectors facing COVID-19: emergency and reactivation. The new document measures and analyzes the effects of the crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean’s business world and production sectors. It combines a short-term view, centered on the emergency, with a longer-term perspective that is of special importance for the reactivation. It proposes measures f…

ECLAC Reaffirms its Commitment to Supporting Caribbean Countries on Their Path Towards a Sustainable Recovery with Equality

24 June 2020 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) ratified its commitment to supporting Caribbean countries on their path towards a sustainable recovery with greater equality after the crisis prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, during a high-level virtual meeting held with ministers and authorities from more than 10 countries in the subregion. The 7th Council of Ministers on Environmental Sustainability of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) took place this Wednesday, June 24, under the outgoing presidency of Martinique and the incoming presidency of Saint Luci…

ECLAC Presents Cases of Transformative Investments for a Sustainable Economy in Brazil

22 June 2020 | News

On May 26, a web seminar entitled “Big Push for Sustainability” was held by ECLAC in collaboration with the Global Compact Network Brazil. The objective of this webinar was to launch the Repositório de casos sobre o Big Push para a Sustentabilidade no Brasil. This repository makes available 66 case studies in the context of the “Big Push for Sustainability” in that country. These studies describe experiences and examples of actions, measures, plans, strategies, programs, policies, etc. that have given risen to a set of investments with a positive impact on the social, economic and environmenta…

Public Policies Are Key to the Financial Inclusion of Rural Areas in the Region

18 March 2020 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the financial support of the European Union, has contributed to the analysis and development of strategies and policies to diversify the economic activities carried out by rural households in situations of poverty. A key component of these efforts has been the analysis of rural value chains. According to the document Strengthening Financial Inclusion and Capacities in Rural Areas: Guidelines for a Plan of Action (in Spanish only), edite…

ECLAC Promotes Gathering of Structuralist Youth in Brazil

25 June 2018 | News

In 2018, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) celebrates 70 years in existence. This motivated its office in Brazil to bring together in a book a new generation influenced by structuralist thinking to discuss alternatives for the country. The gathering together of Brazilian “structuralist youth” in this book shows that, despite the context of major transformations in the international economy and the profound uncertainties stemming from the current Brazilian crisis, structuralist thinking continues to be proactive since alternatives exist for building development…

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

14 December 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…

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

14 December 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…

ECLAC Analyzes Structural Gaps in Development in Argentina’s Provinces

4 September 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…

Mexican President Will Inaugurate ECLAC’s Most Important Biennial Meeting

18 May 2016 | Announcement

The President of the United Mexican States, Enrique Peña Nieto, will head the inauguration ceremony of ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session—the most important biennial meeting of this United Nations regional commission—next Tuesday, May 24 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) in the Official Residence of Los Pinos in Mexico City. The event, which will be held from May 23 to May 27 in the offices of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will bring together representatives from ECLAC’s 45 member states and 13 associate members and will be attended by more than 30 Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Foreign, Finance, E…

How to Follow ECLAC’s Session in Mexico

13 May 2016 | News

On May 23-27, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold in Mexico City its thirty-sixth session, the most important biannual meeting of this United Nations organization, whose mandate is to contribute to the region’s economic, social and environmental development. Live broadcast The entire meeting will be broadcast live via the Web site created for this occasion: ://periododesesiones.cepal.org/36/en, which also provides general information about the event, the detailed programme, reference documents and all the news. Any media outlet or organization is free …

ECLAC’s New Book Analyzes the Interaction between Macroeconomic Dynamics and Productive Development in the Region

1 March 2016 | News

A new book published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analyzes the macroeconomic dynamics in the region’s countries through the study of their social, institutional and productive structures, and proposes rethinking macroeconomic policy with the aim of prioritizing productive development. The publication Productive Structure and Macroeconomic Policy: Heterodox Approaches from Latin America (only available in Spanish) brings together eight articles penned by a total of twelve authors and edited by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena; the Deputy…

Macroeconomics for Development, the Focus of a Seminar Held in Argentina

8 September 2015 | News

External restrictions, financial integration and income distribution were some of the topics addressed during the second seminar-workshop on productive structure, institutions and economic dynamics held on August 20-21 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in which government officials and experts participated. The event began with a regional assessment made by Martín Abeles, Director of the Buenos Aires Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Sebastián Valdecantos, an expert from the same institution. Following that, a series of academic studies related to the…

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