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ECLAC and ILO Call on Countries in the Region to Adopt Regulations to Increase Time for Care in Latin America and the Caribbean

6 Mar 2025 | Press Release

In a new joint bulletin published leading up to International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on March 8, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) stated that leave periods, regulations and instruments that extend the time allowed for care are fundamental for fostering social and gender co-responsibility in the work environment. These regulations guarantee the rights of persons who need care and those who provide it, help galvanize the economy and allow for progress towards equality and the care society, the organ…

Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the World, and Latin America and the Caribbean Cannot Fall Behind

4 Mar 2025 | Press Release

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world, and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean cannot be mere spectators. It is important to create a regional agenda regarding AI, authorities and experts agreed today at ECLAC’s headquarters during the first day of the conference titled “AI in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges, strategies and governance for development in the region”. The event, which will continue through Wednesday, March 5, is organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the AI and Democracy Chair…

ECLAC Launches New Edition of its Statistical Yearbook with Relevant Data on Latin America and the Caribbean’s Economic, Social and Environmental Situation

26 Feb 2025 | Press Release

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) released today the Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, which can be accessed online and presents a statistical overview addressing the social, economic and environmental development of the region’s countries based on information that was available as of December 2024. This annual publication, which is among the United Nations regional organization’s most important, serves as a reference for those seeking descriptive statistical data that is comparable between countries and over time. The St…

Authorities Stress the Urgency of Moving Towards a Development Measurement that Goes Beyond GDP

27 Jan 2025 | Press Release

Monetary metrics are inadequate for reflecting dimensions of well-being that are not directly related to income because they overlook inequalities in the distribution of well-being among different social groups, they fail to capture governance difficulties that erode the quality of democracy and they do not take into account the impacts of environmentally unsustainable practices that endanger the life prospects of present and future generations, according to the authorities and specialists gathered at the Seminar on the Measurement of Development and its Relationship to International Cooperati…

Latin American and Caribbean Economies Continue with Low Growth and Will Expand 2.2% in 2024 and 2.4% in 2025: ECLAC

18 Dec 2024 | Press Release

This year and next, the region’s economies will stay mired in a trap of low capacity for growth, with growth rates that will remain low and a growth dynamic that depends more on private consumption, and less on investment. This is according to the Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, ECLAC’s last annual flagship report in the current year, released today by the United Nations organization. According to this report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the growth rate projected for 2024 is 2.2% and for 2025, 2.4%, with …

Latin America and the Caribbean Need Better Fiscal Policies to Finance their Development

9 Dec 2024 | Press Release

Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries should strengthen tax collection and spending, improve public debt management, and mobilise more private resources in order to finance their ambitious development agendas, according to the 2024 edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO): Financing Sustainable Development released today. The 17th edition of the report argues that LAC’s sustainable financing gap – estimated at USD 99 billion annually – can be bridged if private and public actors improve coordination, with the support of their international partners. The region’s challenging …

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Committed to Accelerating the Effective Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Regional Gender Agenda

5 Dec 2024 | Press Release

The countries of the region participating in the Sixty-sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean reaffirmed “once again the commitment to take all necessary and progressive measures so that States, as duty bearers, accelerate the effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Regional Gender Agenda.” This intergovernmental gathering – organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in its capacity as Secretariat of the Conference, in coordination with the …

It is Time for Strategic Investments and Public Policies to Advance Towards Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society in Latin America and the Caribbean

4 Dec 2024 | Press Release

Today marked the inauguration at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile of the Sixty-sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the participation of Ministers and senior authorities from the region’s national women’s advancement mechanisms, specialists, and representatives of civil society. Organized by ECLAC, in its capacity as Secretariat of the Conference, in coordination with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women …

Population Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean Falls Below Expectations and Region’s Total Population Reaches 663 Million in 2024

28 Nov 2024 | Press Release

In 2024, Latin America and the Caribbean’s population reached 663 million people, 3.8% less than what had been forecast in the year 2000, when estimates pointed to a total of 689 million people. At that time, it was estimated that fertility and mortality rates in Latin America and the Caribbean would be higher than what was effectively recorded between 2000 and 2023, considering trends from the previous decade and what occurred in other regions of the world. Also, these initial projections did not anticipate the increased volume of migration flows in recent years or the significant demographic…

To Build a More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Future, Latin America and the Caribbean Must Overcome the Trap of Low Institutional Capacities and Ineffective Governance

27 Nov 2024 | Press Release

Only by overcoming the trap of low institutional capacities and ineffective governance will Latin America and the Caribbean be able to build a more productive, inclusive and sustainable future, representatives asserted at today’s inauguration of the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), which is being held through Thursday, November 28, 2024 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The two-…

Clustering the Productive Economy: A Strategy for Competitiveness, Well-Being, Prosperity and Inclusive Development

26 Nov 2024 | Press Release

A call to utilize cluster strategies to achieve a productive, coopetitive, prosperous, inclusive and sustainable economy was made today by prominent Spanish academic Jon Azúa, President and founder of Enovating Lab, during his delivery of the XVIII Raúl Prebisch Lecture at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. Jon Azúa, a former Vice President and Minister who promoted a major productive transformation based on cluster policies in the Basque Country, gave a keynote lecture entitled “Clustering a productive, competiti…

At Least 11 Women Are Victims of Femicide Every Day in Latin America and the Caribbean

22 Nov 2024 | Press Release

In 2023, at least 3,897 women were victims of femicide or feminicide in 27 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean. This means at least 11 violent deaths of women every day due to their gender, according to information that official agencies reported to the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean (GEO) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The Bulletin No. 3 – Femicidal violence in figures. Latin America and the Caribbean: urgent action to prevent and eliminate femicides, launched today, is included in the UNITE to…

ECLAC Strengthens its Cooperation with Brazil to Contribute to More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Development in the Country and Region

21 Nov 2024 | Press Release

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed its commitment to productive, inclusive, and sustainable development in Brazil and throughout the region with a series of concrete initiatives for cooperation and technical assistance aimed at strengthening the South American country’s productive, technological, and institutional capacities. During an official visit to Brasilia on 20 and 21 November, ECLAC Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs highlighted Brazil’s role on the current global economic and geopolitical stage and reiterated the need to overc…

ECLAC: The Regional Poverty Rate, which Rose with the Pandemic, Has Declined to a Level Similar to 2014 and in 2023 Reached the Lowest Figure on Record, but Income Inequality Remains High

12 Nov 2024 | Press Release

The percentage of the Latin American population living in poverty in 2023 was 27.3%, marking a decline of 1.5 percentage points compared with the year before, and of more than 5 percentage points vis-à-vis the figure in 2020, the most critical year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is also the lowest figure registered since comparable records have been in place. Meanwhile, the extreme poverty rate covered 10.6% of the region’s population, a figure 0.5 percentage points below that of 2022 but above 2014 levels. In total, 172 million people were living in poverty in 2023, of whom 66 million were li…

eLAC Begins a New Stage Centered on Concrete Actions and Projects, with the Approval of the Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean 2026

8 Nov 2024 | Press Release

Delegates from the governments present at the Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean approved today at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile the Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2026), which establishes the priorities for policy and action in this area at a regional level for the next two years. The gathering – organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) – brought together more than 350 representatives from 41 countries, 23 of which were Latin American or Caribbean. The participant…

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Advocated for Deepening Regional Cooperation on Digital Transformation through Concrete Actions and Projects

7 Nov 2024 | Press Release

The region’s countries advocated today for deepening regional cooperation on digital transformation through concrete actions and projects, and they highlighted the start of a new stage for this regional process, also known as eLAC, which will celebrate 20 years in existence in 2025 and which allows for working on a Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean. The region’s countries advocated today for deepening regional cooperation on digital transformation through concrete actions and projects, and they highlighted the start of a new stage for this regional process known as eLAC, which…

A Real and Effective Digital Transformation Can Help Latin America and the Caribbean Overcome the Traps Hindering its Development

6 Nov 2024 | Press Release

Making progress on the real and effective use of digital technologies can serve as a bridge that enables overcoming development traps in the region, by closing historical inequality gaps and fostering more productive, inclusive and sustainable growth, ECLAC sustains in the document Overcoming Development Traps in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Digital Age: The Transformative Potential of Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (Spanish only), released today. “The region has a historic opportunity to utilize digital tools to address the three traps that inhibit its develop…

Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean Meet to Discuss Policies to Navigate Uncertainty and Strengthen Resilience in the Region

31 Oct 2024 | Press Release

October 31, 2024, Barbados – Latin America and the Caribbean is experiencing greater uncertainty, dynamic socio-economic shifts, geopolitical transitions, and the enduring impact of the global pandemic. In this context, the XVI Ministerial Forum on Development of Latin America and the Caribbean – co-organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and hosted by the Government of Barbados - opens today bringing together representatives from 27 countries, including 20…

Social Inequality is a Trap for Latin America and the Caribbean’s Development and Inhibits the Exercise of Rights

31 Oct 2024 | Press Release

Social inequality is a trap for Latin America and the Caribbean’s development and inhibits the exercise of people’s rights. This was one of the themes underscored at the Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which took place this Thursday, October 31, 2024 in Barbados. The event was held in the framework of the XVI Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, co-organized and sponsored by the Go…

The Value of Goods Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean Will Grow by 4% in 2024: New Report by ECLAC

23 Oct 2024 | Press Release

After falling by 1% in 2023 in a context of contracting global trade, regional goods exports will recover in 2024, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicated today upon releasing a new edition of its annual report on the region’s foreign trade. The report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2024: Reconfiguration of global trade and options for regional recovery was presented today at a press conference by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs. According to the document, the value of the region’s goods exports w…

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