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ECLAC Report Will Present New Economic Projections for the Region’s Countries, More Than a Year After the COVID-19 Pandemic First Appeared

6 July 2021 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present this Thursday, July 8, a special report that examines the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than a year after it first appeared, providing new growth projections for the region’s countries. The new document, entitled The recovery paradox in Latin America and the Caribbean. Growth amid persisting structural problems: inequality, poverty and low investment and productivity, analyzes the performance of the region’s main economic and social indicators and presents policy proposals for achieving…

New Report by ECLAC Will Address the Social Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Latin American and Caribbean Countries

11 May 2020 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Tuesday, May 12, its Special Report COVID-19 No. 3 on monitoring the economic and social effects of the coronavirus in the region, entitled The social challenge in times of COVID-19. This new document – the third in a series that examines the evolution of the pandemic and its effects in the region – will include an estimate of the social impact and related challenges that the current crisis will have for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in 2020 as well as in the medium and long term. The report…

ECLAC is Accepting Proposals for Papers on Inequality Measurement through July 21

8 July 2019 | News

The Summer School on Latin American Economies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is accepting, through July 21, 2019, proposals for research papers on the topic of inequality that will be presented on August 26-27 during a seminar held at the regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The Inequality Seminar: measures, analysis and policies, which will mark the celebration of this training program’s twentieth anniversary, will be co-sponsored by the European Union. Participants will include researchers as well as representatives of think tanks, …

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…

ECLAC will Launch its Social Panorama of Latin American 2018 Report

9 January 2019 | Announcement

On Tuesday January 15, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will make public its report, Social Panorama of Latin America, which addresses issues such as income and wealth distribution, poverty evolution and trends in the region, the dynamics of social spending, social and labor inclusion of the population and the economic autonomy of women in a context of technological change. The document will be presented by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the UN regional organization, during a press conference scheduled for 11:00 a.m. (GMT – 3) at the Commission’s main…

President of Uruguay Will Inaugurate the Second Meeting of ECLAC’s Regional Conference on Social Development

18 October 2017 | Announcement

The President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, will lead the inauguration of the Second Meeting of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, a subsidiary body of ECLAC, on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at 4 p.m. local time. This meeting will take place in the facilities of the Secretariat of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) in Montevideo. The president will be accompanied by Uruguay’s Minister of Social Development, Marina Arismendi; the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC…

ECLAC Will Launch Social Panorama of Latin America 2016

24 May 2017 | Announcement

On Tuesday, May 30, 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch a new edition of its flagship annual report on issues of social development. The report, published since 1991, will be unveiled at the regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The institution’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the document Social Panorama of Latin America 2016 at a press conference at 11:00 a.m. The launch will be broadcast live online via ECLAC’s website at: ://www.cepal.org/en. The study focuses on the measurement and analysis of diverse…

ECLAC Organized Seminars in Buenos Aires on Financialization and Functional Income Distribution

9 December 2016 | News

The Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Buenos Aires organized two seminars this quarter on macroeconomics and development, with participation by representatives from international organizations, central bank officials from Argentina and Brazil, and academic and private-sector experts. In the first seminar-workshop (Productive Structure, Institutions and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Latin America), held September 1-2, participants debated the specific ways in which financialization plays out in the region: where the great capital influx that has entere…

ECLAC Will Launch Social Panorama of Latin America 2015

17 March 2016 | Announcement

On Tuesday 22 March, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch its annual report Social Panorama of Latin America 2015, which outlines recent trends in poverty, extreme poverty, income distribution and social spending in Latin America, as well as other social indicators. The ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the study at a press conference at 11:00 a.m. at the Commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The launch will be broadcast live online through the ECLAC website: ://www.cepal.org/en/eclac-live-2. The 2015 edition of the …

Economist Thomas Piketty to Visit ECLAC Headquarters

14 January 2015 | Announcement

As part of his trip to Chile, French economist Thomas Piketty will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago on Thursday 15 January 2015 at 2.00 p.m. to take part in a lunch meeting with the Commission’s officials and discover first hand ECLAC’s proposals on equality in its trilogy of documents on the subject: Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails (2010); Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development (2012); and Compacts for Equality: Towards a Sustainable Future (2014). The meeting wi…

Latin America Requires Innovation, Growth and Distribution Policies

1 October 2013 | News

Latin America requires innovation, growth and income-distribution policies all at the same time if it is to tackle pending challenges for development, according to a new publication from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters in Mexico. In the document Economic growth, innovation and inequality in Latin America: Post-Washington Consensus advances, setbacks and issues, authors Gabriela Dutrénit, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Martín Puchet Anyul (with the collaboration of Eduardo Moreno) examine the development of the region's economi…

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