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ECLAC Will Launch Platform for Cluster and Other Territorial Productive Articulation Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean

30 November 2023 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch on Tuesday, December 12 a Platform for cluster and other territorial productive articulation initiatives, which seeks to identify, articulate and strengthen the numerous initiatives of this kind that are being conducted throughout the region, as well as to increase their use as a mechanism for organizing productive development efforts in countries. This virtual event will feature opening remarks by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and by Ulrich Höcker, Director of the Economic and Social …

Authorities and Specialists Will Debate Territorial Productive Policies and Digitalization at International Seminar Organized by ECLAC

24 March 2023 | Announcement

Government officials and specialists will participate on Tuesday, April 18 in the International seminar: “Territorial productive policies, digitalization and productivity”, which is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and will be held at its main headquarters in Santiago, Chile using a hybrid format (in-person and virtual). The event’s opening remarks will be made by Nicolás Grau, Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile; Félix Fernández-Shaw, Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the European Commission’s DGINTPA; and Marco L…

Republic of Korea and ECLAC Renew their 2022-2023 Cooperation Agreement, with Emphasis on Economic Integration and the Digital Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

11 November 2022 | News

The government of the Republic of Korea and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) strengthened today their strategic cooperation relationship by signing an agreement that promotes sustainable development on three crucial issues for the transformative recovery of our region’s countries. The 2022 cooperation accord – signed by Kyungtae Hwang, the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador in Chile, and José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC – will enable continued support for regional economic trade integration, with special emphasis on Small and Medium-siz…

Authorities from Argentina Exchanged Experiences at ECLAC on Productive Development Policies Geared Towards Territories

9 August 2022 | News

National and provincial authorities from Argentina and representatives of the Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO) agreed today on the need to deepen the territorial dimension in order to promote production policies and a new development model in their respective countries, at a gathering that took place on Tuesday, August 9, at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The Workshop for peer exchange on productive development and territory in Argentina featured opening remarks by Mario Cimoli, Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA…

Authorities Will Debate about Health Sovereignty, Digital Technologies and Eco-Innovation at ECLAC’s Regional Conference

10 December 2021 | Announcement

Senior authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean and representatives of international organizations, academia and the private sector will discuss on December 13-15 the development strategies of the region’s countries and the role of health sovereignty, digital technologies and eco-innovation, among other issues, during the Third Meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Argentina and which will be held using a hybrid format. The e…

ECLAC Examines the Digital Transformation Process of Tourism-related MSMEs in SICA Countries

30 June 2021 | News

The Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) dedicated to tourism in the member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA) recognize the importance of digital tools for attracting tourists, attaining visibility and selling, and they show great willingness to engage with them. However, they still only make basic use of these technologies for communicating and promoting their business, missing opportunities to improve their competitiveness, productivity and sustainability, according to a new document published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbe…

Alicia Bárcena: The Current Health and Climate Crises are the Result of an Unsustainable Development Model

5 February 2021 | News

“The current health and climate crises are the result of an unsustainable development model. Both are global public ills. They arise from the destruction of nature and require collective, simultaneous action along with international cooperation,” underscored Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), during a virtual keynote lecture organized by the Oxford University International Development Department (United Kingdom). The current development model, explained Bárcena, is associated with, among other things, a falling rate of pr…

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Define a New Digital Agenda in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic at the VII Ministerial Conference on the Information Society

20 November 2020 | Announcement

Ministers and other high-level authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as specialists, will participate on November 23-26 in the Seventh Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, where they will analyze the role of digital technologies in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and debate the policy priorities on digital matters for the next two years. During this event – organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Ecuador – participants are expected to approve the eLAC 2022 Digital Agenda for Latin America an…

The Role of Digital Technologies in Light of the Pandemic Will Be Analyzed at the Seventh Ministerial Conference organized by ECLAC and the Government of Ecuador

4 November 2020 | Announcement

The role of digital technologies as critical instruments for alleviating the effects of the crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic will be analyzed during the Seventh Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, to be held on November 23-26, 2020 and organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Ecuador. At the meeting, which will take place virtually, delegates from the region’s countries will debate the policy priorities on digital matters for the next two years and will aim to approve the eLAC 2022 Digital Agenda for…

Alicia Bárcena Stressed the Importance of Equality as a Driver of Growth for Companies and Businesses after the COVID-19 Crisis

23 September 2020 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stressed today the importance of seeing equality as a driver of growth after the crisis stemming from COVID-19, not just for countries but also companies and businesses, during a high-level event that brought together the main executives of important companies and business leaders from the Americas and other regions of the world, and which was held on the sidelines of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The gathering entitled “A conversation with CEOs & Leade…

The Region Requires a New Political Compact that Ensures Universal Social Protection and Resolves Structural Problems in the World of Work

22 July 2020 | News

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has deepened structural problems in the world of work, which will lead to an increase in unemployment, poverty and inequality. For that reason, countries need a new political compact that ensures universal social protection for all the region’s workers, women and men alike, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), sustained today. The senior United Nations official participated in the launch of the book entitled The future of work: Trade unions in transformation, published by the Bureau for W…

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…

Authorities from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea visited ECLAC

15 May 2019 | News

A delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea visited the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago, Chile on 13-14 May 2019, and reaffirmed their commitment to supporting the Latin American and Caribbean countries in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ECLAC and the Republic of Korea have closely collaborated in the past years on crucial topics such as internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), reducing environmental footprint of exports and the promotion of sustainable and inclusive…

Trade Single Windows Would Help the Region’s SMEs to Expand Internationally

13 May 2019 | News

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent more than 99% of all companies in Latin America and the Caribbean, but their participation in regional exports scarcely reaches 6%. For this reason, instruments such as Trade Single Windows (TSWs) can be an important aid for internationalizing these companies, authorities and experts gathered in Santiago, Chile indicated today. At the III CORPYME Training Workshop: Trade Single Windows for the Internationalization of SMEs, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with the support of the Republic of Kor…

Experts and Authorities Will Analyze at ECLAC the Advantages of Trade Single Windows for Internationalizing SMEs

8 May 2019 | Announcement

International experts and authorities from the region’s countries will gather at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the III CORPYME Training Workshop: Trade Single Windows for the Internationalization of SMEs. This meeting will take place on Monday, May 13, 2019 at the United Nations organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. It will be inaugurated at 9:00 a.m. by Raúl García-Buchaca, ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary for Management and Program Analysis; Gabriela Orosco, Director General of Trade and Investment Agreements at the Mi…

ECLAC and Cambridge University Launched a Fintech Collaboration Network

26 March 2019 | News

Fintech companies, which offer financial services through the application of digital technologies, may be key to furthering financial inclusion, one of the region’s main challenges, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, said on Monday, March 25 at the inauguration of a seminar where the United Nations regional organization and Cambridge University launched a joint collaborative initiative in this area, which includes the creation of a Financial Innovation Hub for Latin America. These new companies have enormous potential to satisfy the financial needs of small and medium-sized enterpris…

Advancing on Integration and Regional Cooperation is Essential to Managing and Taking Advantage of the Flow of Cross-Border Data

22 November 2018 | News

Advancing on integration and regional cooperation is essential to properly managing and taking advantage of the flow of cross-border data, considering that it not only involves different countries but also has an impact on areas such as trade, security and human rights, according to the specialists gathered at the inauguration of the Regional conference: Challenges in an interconnected world, cross-border data flows, data protection and cybersecurity, held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile this Thursday, November 22. The event was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America…

Companies must Change Business Model to Adopt Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

19 April 2018 | News

Leaders of large companies and representatives from the Latin American and Caribbean business world met today at ECLAC with government authorities and international experts to assess private sector participation in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed upon by the United Nations in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. During the second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, underway at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, participants in the meeting on “The role of the business sector in generating su…

Experts Agree Role of Region’s MSMEs Must Be Rethought to Integrate Them into Fourth Industrial Revolution

10 October 2017 | News

The fourth industrial revolution underway is forcing a rethinking of the role of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean and requires policies that enable the development of capacities to successfully compete in today’s productive systems, which are characterized by their dynamism, experts agreed during a meeting organized by the Euromipyme project in Mexico City. The Regional Seminar Latin America and Europe in the Face of Technological Disruption: A New Era of Policies and Institutions for MSMEs began today in Mexico with the participation of Susa…

ECLAC Organizes Seminar in Mexico to Debate New Generation of Policies and Institutions for Region’s MSMEs

2 October 2017 | Announcement

On October 10-11 in Mexico City, the Regional Seminar Latin America and Europe in the Face of Technological Disruption: A New Era of Policies and Institutions for MSMEs will be held to examine the technological changes that are producing sharp tensions in agents of production and government authorities of the region. The event will be streamed live via the Internet. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the framework of the Euromipyme project, developed with the European Union, this gathering is aimed at policy makers, specialists and representativ…

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