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ECLAC Reaffirms its Proposal for Economic and Social Transformation to Hasten Implementation of the 2030 Agenda at High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

17 July 2024 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed its proposal for economic and social transformation to hasten implementation of the 2030 Agenda, during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), which is taking place through Thursday, July 18 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, actively participated in several of the global forum’s plenary sessions and side events, where he shared his vision for moving towards a more productive, inclusive and sustai…

High-level Authorities from the Region Will Examine the Opportunities and Challenges of International Development Cooperation in the Context of the Post-Pandemic Recovery

18 August 2021 | Announcement

High-level authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean, including Ministers of Foreign Affairs and representatives of the region’s cooperation agencies, will participate on August 19-20 in the Extraordinary meeting of the Committee on South-South Cooperation: opportunities for renewed international development cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held virtually. The event will be inaugurated on Thursday, August 19 at 9 a.m. local time in Costa Rica (11 a.m. in Chile) by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribb…

Authorities from the Region Posed the Urgency of Renewed Cooperation with Development in Transition Countries Based on a Multidimensional Measurement of Sustainable Development

14 July 2021 | News

Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean along with international officials posed the urgency of renewing international cooperation on the basis of a multidimensional measurement of development, which would take into account the structural gaps that middle-income countries face, during a virtual event organized by the Government of Costa Rica and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the sidelines of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021. The virtual event entitled Multidimensional measurements of development: opportunities for …

It is Time for Middle-Income Countries to Be Part of Debt Relief Initiatives for a Green and Inclusive Recovery: Alicia Bárcena

28 June 2021 | News

It is time for middle-income countries to be made part of debt relief initiatives for a green and inclusive recovery, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during an international conference entitled Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery, organized by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London, and the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. “We aspire to a new global multilateral mechanism for restructuring debt. We need to build a new architec…

New Document by ECLAC Examines the Structural Gaps that Characterize the Region

22 December 2020 | News

Although Latin America and the Caribbean is made up largely of countries that are considered to be middle income, it is the most unequal region in the world. Latin American and Caribbean countries are characterized by the prevalence of historical and deeply rooted socioeconomic disparities and inequalities, the continuance of archaic patterns of wealth distribution, and a very widespread culture of privilege, all of which give rise to structural gaps in numerous areas, according to the document Structural Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean, a Conceptual-Methodological Perspective (Sp…

ECLAC: Concrete Opportunities Exist for Deepening the Partnership between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union with a View to a Green, Digital, Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery

14 December 2020 | News

"COVID-19 represents a time of choices. Both regions – Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean – need to take urgent measures to overcome the current health and economic crisis and to build a new path for development in the framework of a renewed partnership," Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during a high-level meeting between foreign affairs ministers from both regions that was organized by the Government of Germany. In her remarks, Bárcena stressed the importance of middle-income countries and the debat…

ECLAC Calls for a Renewed Dialogue between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean for a post COVID-19 Recovery with Equality and Sustainability

13 August 2020 | News

The United States and Latin America and the Caribbean need to establish a renewed dialogue to confront the challenges posed by the current crisis unleashed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and to thereby achieve a recovery with equality and environmental sustainability, Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, said today during a high-level virtual seminar with prominent specialists from the North American country. The event entitled “The United States and Latin America and the Caribbean: a dialogue towards recovery with sustainability and equality post COVID-19" was moderated by the …

Middle Income Countries Require Differentiated and Fair Access to Financing for Development: Alicia Bárcena

21 September 2017 | News

Middle income countries require differentiated access to the mobilization of external resources, capital markets, concessional financing and trade, along with bolstered instruments to attract quality foreign direct investment, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), contended today. The regional organization’s most senior representative participated in the second high-level ministerial meeting of like-minded nations that support middle income countries, which was held in New York and coordinated and organized by the Foreign Mi…

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