The twenty-fifth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC began today in Santiago de Chile.

The United Nations regional commission projects regional economic growth of 2.2% in 2026 and 2.5% in 2027 and advises that increasing productivity and growth is necessary for reducing informality through productive formalization strategies.

The Sixth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean concluded today in Montevideo. The session was organized by ECLAC in coordination with UNFPA.

A new ECLAC document recommends leaving behind fragmented short-term responses and adopting policies that fit the new demographic reality facing the countries of the region.

Representatives from governments, regional and international organizations, academia, and civil society came together today to begin the Sixth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development.

A report prepared by a commission co-chaired by former Presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile and Iván Duque of Colombia upholds that the region possesses strategic assets to drive development, but that doing so will require clear strategies and effective governance.

In a new special report, ECLAC warns that the average price of oil this year will be higher than in 2025, which means that six channels of impact on the region remain in effect.

New report launched today by ECLAC offers numerous policy recommendations. The United Nations regional organization urges for taking a strategic approach to FDI, coordinating countries' efforts to attract these flows with productive development policies.

On Wednesday, June 17, 2026, in Mexico City, the Mexican Senate of the Republic held a Solemn Commemoration to celebrate the founding of ECLAC’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico.

Today marked the inauguration in Santiago, Chile of the United Nations regional organization’s Sixth Regional Seminar on Social Development, which is bringing authorities and specialists together through Thursday, June 18.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the European Patent Office and the Inter-American Development Bank kicked off a high-level regional conference in Santiago, Chile.

ECLAC’s 38th Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy brought together authorities from 11 countries to discuss strategies for stabilization and sustainable development.

Tax revenues rose in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2024, with the largest gains occurring in those that implemented major tax reforms, according to a new report.

The meeting of the Platform’s Council of Finance and Economy Ministers took place at the United Nations organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The majority of the region’s economies will exhibit less economic dynamism in 2026 versus 2025.

The fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties concluded today in Nassau, Bahamas with the election of a new Presiding Officers and the creation of working groups on pollutant release and transfer registers and on access to environmental justice.

International seminar brought together renowned specialists, who reflected on the challenges the region is facing in a context of profound transformations in the global economy.

The COP 4 of Latin America and the Caribbean’s first environmental treaty is taking place for the first time in a Caribbean country (the Bahamas). Through April 24, it will bring together authorities from the region’s countries, representatives of regional and international organizations, and member...

Four years before that global agenda’s deadline, representatives of the region’s countries agreed that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions is the greatest challenge facing the world and is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.

ECLAC is hosting the ninth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, convened by countries in order to forge agreements and share experiences that would bolster fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda.