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Network of Subnational Governments for Productive Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Officially Launched During Meeting in Ecuador

4 Jun 2025 | News

Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Quito, Ecuador, today to establish the Network of Subnational Governments for Productive Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Conceived as a permanent technical and political space, the Network seeks to support the strengthening of subnational governments’ capacities in designing and implementing productive development policies. The Network’s creation, formalized through the Pichincha Declaration, was one of the outcomes of the International Seminar: The Role of Subnational Governments in Sustainable and Inclusive Producti…

Jon Azúa, Prominent Spanish Academic Specialised in Clusters, will Give the XVIII Raúl Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC

19 Nov 2024 | Announcement

Prominent Spanish academic specialised in clusters Jon Azúa will give the XVIII Raúl Prebisch Lecture on Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters, where he will be welcomed by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the regional organisation’s Executive Secretary. The President and founder of Enovating Lab will give his lecture, titled “Clustering a productive, competitive, prosperous, inclusive and sustainable economy: towards the co-creation of the economic development we want”, at 11:00 local time (UTC/GMT -3:00). Jon Azúa holds a…

ECLAC Will Present the First Edition of its Report Overview of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

27 Aug 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch on Thursday, September 5, 2024, during a web seminar, the first edition of its report Overview of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, which presents a new vision of these policies for the region, details the various efforts that Latin American and Caribbean countries have been making, and proposes a series of guidelines and recommendations for scaling up and improving these policies with the aim of achieving more productive, inclusive and sustainable development. The new publica…

ECLAC Will Present Updated Figures on Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean and Proposals for Increasing It

25 Jul 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch on Thursday, August 1, at 11 a.m. local time in Chile (UTC/GMT-4) an annual report entitled Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, which provides an overview of how these flows have evolved at a global, regional and national level. This year the publication also proposes a series of guidelines for increasing this kind of investment on a national and subnational scale, as well as for boosting its impact on productive transformation. The document’s main conclusions will be unveiled by José…

Authorities and Specialists Analyzed the State of Productive Development Policies and Their Impact on the Region’s Productivity and Growth

13 Mar 2024 | News

Authorities, representatives of international organizations and academics analyzed this Wednesday, March 13, 2024 the state of productive development policies (PDPs) and their prospects, along with their impact on productivity, economic growth and the structural transformations that the region requires, at a seminar in Santiago, Chile organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and UNU-WIDER. The event, entitled Connecting the Productivity Challenge with Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, featured opening remarks by José Man…

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

30 Nov 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 …

Productive Development Policies are Key to a Better Production and Work Future and to Fostering Economies’ Global Integration

26 Oct 2023 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, participated on Thursday, October 26 in the “Dialogues on Uruguay’s Future,” where he reiterated the importance of Productive Development Policies (PDP) as catalysts for higher-quality international economic integration – especially in small economies – and for a better future in terms of production and work in the region’s countries. The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the two events held in Montevideo in the framework of the “Dialogues …

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Participates in European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean Business Round Table

18 Jul 2023 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, participated on Monday, July 17 in the European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean Business Round Table, which is taking place in the framework of the third EU-CELAC Summit being held in Brussels through July 18, with the attendance of Heads of State and Government and senior authorities from the countries belonging to both blocs, along with representatives of the private sector, academia and civil society. At the high-level round table, ECLAC’s leading authority se…

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

24 Mar 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…

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

23 Sep 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…

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 Jul 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…

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…

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

19 Apr 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 Oct 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…

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