List of content type News

View results Filter list
Topic(s): Public income and expenditure

Filters

6 search results. Displaying 20 per page.

The XXXVI Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy will Bring Together Leaders and Experts to Analyse Fiscal Policy Challenges in the Region

3 May 2024 | Announcement

From 6 to 8 May, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host the XXXVI Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, a renowned international forum that has brought together leaders, specialists, civil society, and academia for 36 years to discuss fiscal policy challenges faced by countries in the region. Leaders from the Ministries of Finance of 13 countries across the region will participate in the meeting, along with renowned experts from international organisations, academia, civil society organisations and NGOs. The seminar will include presentations by leaders, ac…

ECLAC Presents its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023, with New Growth Projections for the Region’s Countries

30 August 2023 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release next Tuesday, September 5 its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023. Financing a sustainable transition: investment for growth and climate change action, one of the institution’s flagship annual economic reports in which it takes stock of the region’s economies in recent months and updates its growth estimates for each country. This document is the United Nations regional commission’s oldest periodic publication, with its first edition having been presented in 1948, the same year in which ECLAC …

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…

Alicia Bárcena Highlights the Need for a Renewed Global Compact to Strengthen Multilateralism and Greater Solidarity with Middle-Income Countries

3 July 2021 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, highlighted the important role played by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in building a renewed global compact to strengthen multilateralism and promote greater solidarity with middle-income countries on key issues such as debt and the transition to sustainable, low-carbon growth models. ECLAC's highest authority participated this Friday, July 2, in a high-level meeting held virtually within the framework of the 2021 Integration Segment of ECOSOC, which – under…

ECLAC Study Analyses Increase in Sickness Benefit Applications in Uruguay

14 June 2017 | News

Applications for sickness benefit in Uruguay, together with the corresponding payouts, have risen sharply since 2010. The factors behind that increase are varied and are the result of a series of changes that have affected this government programme, reveals a recently published ECLAC study. The report, Study of Sickness Benefit in Uruguay, written by Verónica Amarante, Director of the ECLAC office in Montevideo, and Andrés Dean, a consultant with the organization, analyses those factors and the impact that the changes made in recent years have had. It was prepared under an agreement between EC…

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 …

6 search results. Displaying 20 per page.