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As ECLAC Launches New Study on State of Caribbean Poverty Statistics, T&T Ministry Says: Statistics Must Change Lives

23 Oct 2025 | Briefing note

Trinidad and Tobago’s Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of the People, Social Development and Family Services, Dr. Natalie Chaitan-Maharaj, says, “Statistics can’t just remain in reports but must translate into action that changes lives.” The Parliamentary Secretary was speaking at ECLAC’s Calculate to Eradicate – Symposium on Statistics for Poverty Reduction in the Caribbean, which took place on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.…

For Climate Finance, Caribbean Countries Must Link Climate Finance with Sustainable Development

25 Sep 2025 | Briefing note

Caribbean countries must be able to make the connection between climate finance and sustainable development to receive much-needed funding for climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation. That is the view of ECLAC Caribbean consultant Cathal Healy-Singh, on how Caribbean SIDS (Small Island Developing States) can tackle what has emerged as one of their main development challenges.…

ECLAC and partners introduce a statistical resource hub for data-driven policy making in the Caribbean

4 Jan 2024 | Briefing note

ECLAC, with the support of the Government of Canada, has launched the Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC) Knowledge Base. The Canada funded PRASC was a capacity-building initiative aimed at strengthening the statistical system of the Caribbean region to improve socio-economic measures and facilitate evidence-based policy making.…

Training on gender statistics with staff of national statistical offices and machineries for the advancement of women for better equality policies

15 Sep 2023 | Briefing note

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), together with UN Women and CARICOM, held the first part of the Gender Statistics and Indicators course from 13 to 15 September in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The course was attended by 29 representatives of national statistical offices and machineries for the advancement of women from member and associate countries.…

Subnational Gross Domestic Product by production approach

5 Jun 2023 | Briefing note

Sub-national accounts is an important tool to understand the structure of goods and services produced and how they have evolved in the different territories of a country. In this sense, ECLAC makes available to users new subnational GDP indicators available for 11 Latin American countries that are expected to constitute a substantive contribution for decision-making and development planning of a nation.…

New ECLAC Statistics on manufacturing industry in Latin-America

20 Jan 2023 | Briefing note

Industrial policy is as relevant today as it has been in the past for Latin America and the Caribbean. Steps towards development depend on a rational, inclusive, and sustainable industrial policy, guided by intensive use of information, that allows the definition and dissemination of indicators which are useful for decision-making. To this end, ECLAC makes available a group of statistical indicators on manufacturing calculated based on the repository of national economic surveys which allows the elaboration and dissemination of regional intermediate indicators by economic activity.…

United States Economic Outlook: Third Quarter 2022

4 Jan 2023 | Briefing note

United States economic outlook: third quarter of 2022 The United States economy rose 2.9% in the third quarter of 2022, a sharp turnaround following two quarters of contraction. Here is the economic outlook in five charts:…

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