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ECLAC Trained Provincial Officials from Argentina in Investment and Export Promotion in a Program Organized by CFI

19 June 2025 | Briefing note

As part of its cooperation with the Federal Investment Council (CFI), ECLAC delivered three modules in the Provincial Investment and Export Promotion Program, a course aimed at more than 80 officials from Argentine provinces. This initiative is part of the activities the United Nations regional commission is promoting to strengthen the institutional capacities of countries and their territories in matters of productive development and economic governance.…

United States Trade Developments 2024 Briefing Notes

3 January 2025 | Briefing note

United States Trade Developments 2024 provides an overview of selected developments in United States trade relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. Following the global focus on the climate crisis and the specific emphasis on President Biden’s trade policy on advancing a sustainable environment and climate path, the report includes a section on trade in circular economy goods.…

Session of ECLAC

28 August 2024 | Briefing note

The fortieth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will be held from 9 to 11 October 2024 in Lima, pursuant to resolution 766(XXXIX), adopted at the thirty-ninth session of ECLAC, held in Buenos Aires from 24 to 26 October 2022. The meeting will be held in accordance with the ECLAC calendar of conferences for the period 2023–2024.…

XIII REDLAS Conference: Call for Papers 2024 - Intellectual property in the service sector

6 June 2024 | Briefing note

Background Services represent approximately two-thirds of GDP and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) but only 13.7% of the region's exports in 2023. In particular, digitally enabled services (SED) barely reached 4.6% of LAC exports in 2023, showing great growth opportunities for the region. Most of these services are knowledge-intensive, such as telecommunications, computing, software, financial, business, and creative services (literature and art, among others). Boosting service activities and exports, especially SSD, will increase growth, productivity and quality jobs throug…

First Meeting of the Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean

19 June 2023 | Briefing note

The Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), aims to promote the strengthening of national South-South and triangular cooperation mechanisms and their possible interactions with North-South and multilateral cooperation. The conference encouraged regional and extra-regional actors, donor countries and international organizations to engage in South-South and triangular cooperation to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer and achieve cooperation activities.…

Sixth Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development

20 April 2023 | Briefing note

The Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is State-led and open to participation by all Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is convened under the auspices of ECLAC and guided by the principles established for all follow-up and review processes by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly.…

Lights and Shadows of the War in Ukraine: Economic and Social Effects on Latin America and the Caribbean

24 March 2023 | Briefing note

IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "The Global Impacts of The War in Ukraine" (2023) The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions. This year’s spotlight on the global impacts of the war in Ukraine explores questions that range from refugee experiences, regional impacts in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and implications of the war from areas such as global food security to its effects upon families. José Durán, Chief of International trade and Regional Integration Unit of ECLAC, presents "Lights and Shadows of the Wa…

75 years of ECLAC

24 February 2023 | Briefing note

New website highlights the contributions of ECLAC to Latin America and the Caribbean in the past 75 years Learn about the history of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and discover how it has shaped thinking on public policy and development and supported the region by promoting economic, social and sustainable development initiatives over almost eight decades.…

The 2030 Agenda: Are Latin America and the Caribbean on Track to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?

21 February 2023 | Briefing note

When the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all 193 Member States of the United Nations at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015 as “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future”, it presented a historic opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite progress, the region needs to step up their efforts.…

United States – Latin America and the Caribbean Trade Developments 2022

11 January 2023 | Briefing note

In the United States, total trade in goods and services rebounded in 2021 to its pre-pandemic levels. In 2022, trade in goods sustained the recovery that started in 2021, but the trade in services has not fully recovered as significant services industries such as travel, and transport are still facing the lingering effects of the pandemic.…

The Latin America and the Caribbean Marketplace Explorer (LACME)

6 December 2022 | Briefing note

ECLAC and ITC’s online tool provides a region-wide analysis of almost 3,000 websites representing about 900 goods-oriented marketplaces across 33 countries. LACME is the first dashboard that monitors retail e-commerce marketplaces in the region. This free tool shows the user dynamics of goods-oriented marketplaces across 33 countries from 2019 to 2022 and a country-by-country benchmarking. The tool tracks visitor traffic and shows key features of almost 900 marketplaces and 2,900 marketplace websites, together with data on the e-commerce ecosystem in the countries. During the last two years, t…

Modern services as a driver of regional trade

22 November 2022 | Briefing note

Modern services —digitally delivered services such as computer, financial and business services— have been the most dynamic category of international trade in the past decade. However, Latin America and the Caribbean is still a marginal player in global trade in modern services.…

Call for papers - XI REDLAS Conference: "Creative and modern services for trade and sustainable development"

27 July 2022 | Briefing note

Organized by: ECLAC, KAS, REDLAS, PromPerú and the University of Lima Key dates: September 10: deadline to send abstracts to redlas@cepal.org September 17: notification to authors of accepted papers November 4: deadline sent works to the same email Conference: November 14 and 15, 2022 On November 14 and 15, 2022, the XI REDLAS Conference will be held in Lima, in association with KAS, ECLAC, PromPerú and the University of Lima (ULIMA). PromPerú is one of the trade promotion organizations with the longest track record in promoting service exports in the region. In this …

Latin American and the Caribbean shipping industry in the international context

23 May 2022 | Briefing note

According to data disposed on UNCTADSTAT (2022), considering the total merchant fleet by flag of registration, represented by thousands of dead-weight tons (DWT), Panama occupies the first place of the list, representing in 2021 the 16.1% of the merchant fleet. Followed by Liberia, Marshall Islands, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malta, China, Bahamas, Greece, and Japan. The Bahamas, a Caribbean island, occupying the 8th place of the rank, with 3.5% of the world´s dead-weight tonnage. In Latin America and the Caribbean, it represented in 2021, 21.5% of the world fleet by flag. Flag by registrati…

Latin American roundtable on regional opportunities for decarbonizing maritime transport

7 April 2022 | Briefing note

Organized by the World Maritime Forum, Ocean Conservancy and Environmental Defense Fund, the Latin American Roundtable on Regional Opportunities for Decarbonizing Maritime Transport was held virtually on March 30-31. The aim of the roundtable was to bring together high-level representatives from across the region - including representatives from government, the maritime industry and international organizations - to discuss opportunities related to the decarbonization of shipping, in particular, the production and commercialization of zero-emission marine fuels in Latin America and the Ca…

Call for chapter proposals with compensation

2 August 2021 | Briefing note

The ADELA Program of the KAS and the Division of International Trade and Integration of ECLAC will organize a conference and publish a book (in English and Spanish) that addresses the current and future challenges of the region in international trade to encourage debate and promote common responses…

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