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ECLAC Opens Application Period for Twenty-first Edition of its School on Latin American Economies

10 February 2020 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) opened the application period for the twenty-first edition of its School on Latin American Economies, which annually invites young researchers, graduates and/or post-graduates interested in studying the Latin American development process. The application process is online and will be open through April 12, 2020. The list of selected participants will be published on the ECLAC website on April 21. Classes will take place July 13 – September 4, 2020 at the UN regional organization’s headquarters in the Chilean capital. Enrollme…

Alicia Bárcena Kicks Off 2019 Summer School with an Invitation to Think about a New Development Style for the Region

29 July 2019 | News

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), issued an invitation to think about a new, more sustainable and egalitarian development style for the region to students at the regional UN organization’s Summer School on Latin American Economies. “This summer program is not just a course on economics. It is a school of political economics, because ECLAC is a think-tank and we have placed our bets on development theories as pioneers in research methodologies and techniques, but also for our constant questioning of the development model,…

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…

Speaker of the Swedish Parliament and ECLAC’s Experts Shared Views on Latin America and the Caribbean

8 March 2016 | News

On an official visit to Chile, the Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Urban Ahlin participated on Monday, March 7 in a round table at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, in which they addressed the region’s economic, social and environmental challenges. The senior official and his delegation, formed by Kiefer Jakob, Sweden’s Ambassador to Chile and other representatives of the Swedish Parliament, the Embassy of Sweden in Chile and the Chilean-Swedish Institute of Culture, were received by ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antoni…

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…

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,…

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