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Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean Will Reach 3.0% in 2013

25 Jul 2013 | Press Release

See photo gallery Watch video of the press conference. (24 July 2013) As a whole, Latin American and Caribbean countries will grow by 3.0% in 2013, which is similar to last year's growth rate, according to a new ECLAC report launched at a press conference today in Santiago, Chile. In the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013, ECLAC states that the lower growth rate than the most recent estimate (3.5% in April) was partly due to slow growth in Brazil and Mexico. In addition, several countries that were growing quickly - such as Chile, Panama and Peru - experienced a sl…

Executive Secretary of ECLAC Presented a Document on Structural Perspectives for the Region's Development

24 Jul 2013 | Press Release

(23 July 2013) Speaking at the CELAC social summit in Caracas on Tuesday 23 July, the main themes tackled by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) were the challenge of reducing the high levels of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the need for a structural change to improve citizens' access to goods and services. Ms. Bárcena took part in the 1st Meeting of Social Development Ministers and Authorities to eradicate hunger and poverty of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which was als…

ECLAC Will Present Its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013

23 Jul 2013 | Press Release

Follow the live broadcast online on 24 July at 11:00 a.m. (for a better experience, please delete all temporary internet files from your computer before opening this link). (17 July 2013) On Wednesday 24 July, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013, which will update this year's growth estimates for the region's countries. The annual report, which is one of the most important documents published by this regional commission of the United Nations, will be launched in Santiago, Chile at 11…

ECLAC Calls for Equality Covenants in Latin America and the Caribbean

18 Jul 2013 | Press Release

(18 July 2013) Speaking in Brasilia, Brazil, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, highlighted the need to move forward with social and fiscal covenants in Latin America and the Caribbean, in order to consolidate equality, diversify the economy and improve the distributive impact of public policies. On Wednesday, Ms. Bárcena took part in the International seminar on development, which was organized by Brazil's Economic and Social Development Council (CDES) to mark its tenth anniversary. Speakers included Presid…

Government Representatives and Officials Discussed the Post-2015 Agenda in the Caribbean

15 Jul 2013 | Press Release

(12 July, 2013) The medium-term challenges and the shaping of a post - 2015 development agenda in the Caribbean were discussed during the Sixteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Georgetown, Guyana. During the High- level meeting, held on 11 July 2013, government representatives and officials discussed three issues. Presentations were made on the outcome of the Caribbean regional preparatory meeting for the 2014 third international conference on Small Is…

ECLAC Executive Secretary Took Part in Debate on Inequality

15 Jul 2013 | Press Release

(8 July 2013) Speaking today in New York, United States, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stated "In Latin America and the Caribbean, we have a historic opportunity to rethink development using equality and environmental sustainability as our compass". Ms. Bárcena and government officials and representatives from international agencies took part in the high-level session to open the debate on inequality organized by the United Nations General Assembly. The debate was inaugurated by UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon,…

Road Map for Population, Migration and Development beyond 2014 Adopted by Caribbean Governments in Guyana

12 Jul 2013 | Press Release

(July 12, 2013) Government representatives and officials attending the Sixteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), on Thursday July 11 adopted a set of recommendations on priority issues identified by delegates who attended the Caribbean Forum on Population, Migration and Development, held in Guyana, July 9-10. The range of proposals included actions to reduce poverty and inequality, promote and protect the rights of vulnerable groups, including older persons, adoles…

ECLAC Joins CARICOM Summit Celebration of Forty Years of Integration

8 Jul 2013 | Press Release

(5 July 2013) The Caribbean region is at an important turning point in its history; a time of hope when the member states of the Caribbean, by adapting their development model, placing equality at the center, can renew their efforts to collectively meet the challenges of the global environment, expressed the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in a message tabled in Trinidad and Tobago. Alicia Bárcena participated in the 34th Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which was held in Port of Spain, on behalf …

ECLAC Calls For a Boost to Structural Change with Equality Based on Innovation, Training and Employment

5 Jul 2013 | Press Release

(27 June 2013) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, described the risks faced by Latin American economies to regional authorities meeting in Panama City, Panama, and called for a boost to policies that promote innovation, training and employment with rights. On 26 June, the most senior official of this United Nations regional commission took part in the 6th Ibero-American Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance, which is being held as part of preparations for the 23rd Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State a…

OAS Highlighted Effect of Drugs Problem on the Pillars of Development

3 Jul 2013 | Press Release

(2 July 2013) At the presentation of the report The drugs problem in the Americas, in Santiago, the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, emphasized that the drugs problem affects the pillars of development in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Mr. Insulza was received by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, who stated in her welcome that the document, prepared by OAS at the request of its member states, comes at a time of frustration with the results of the drug poli…

ECLAC Strengthens Electronic Dissemination to Facilitate Access to Its Studies and Statistics

28 Jun 2013 | Press Release

(28 June 2013) In recent years, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has strengthened its electronic dissemination platform to facilitate and extend access by Member States and the public to the intellectual assets of this United Nations regional commission, thereby boosting user feedback and reducing the economic and environmental costs of using paper. Since it was created over 60 years ago, this think tank for economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean has produced a large amount of information and knowledge in many formats, from statist…

Latin American Countries Agree Regional Cooperation Platform in Science, Technology and Innovation

26 Jun 2013 | Press Release

(18 June 2013) In the Rio de Janeiro Declaration, signed today in Brazil, a group of Latin American and Caribbean countries decided to promote industrial policies to boost strategic sectors and go beyond increasing the competitiveness of existing sectors to help move forward with an environmentally sustainable technological paradigm, as well as undertaking to promote policies to invest and expand new productive capacities based on scientific, technological and innovation knowledge. The declaration was signed at the ministerial meeting Innovation and structural change in Latin America and the …

Port Activity in Latin America and the Caribbean Remained Sluggish in 2012

19 Jun 2013 | Press Release

(18 June 2013) The container throughput in Latin American and Caribbean ports remained sluggish in 2012, and this confirmed the slowdown in the region's foreign trade over the past year, due to recession in Europe and slower growth in the United States and China, according to ECLAC. According to the ranking of container port throughput in Latin America and the Caribbean, published in Spanish by ECLAC in its Maritime Profile (://www.cepal.org/perfil/default.asp), in 2010 the container port throughput in maritime terminals grew by 15.9%, which fell to 13.9% in 2011 and 4.3% in 2012. The ranking,…

ECLAC Proposes Strengthening Latin America-East Asia Cooperation

14 Jun 2013 | Press Release

(14 June 2013) ECLAC proposed a series of recommendations for strengthening Latin America-East Asia cooperation and taking advantage of the growing South-South trade potential, in one of the Commission's most recent studies presented at a ministerial meeting that ended on Friday in Indonesia. The 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Forum for East Asia and Latin American Cooperation (FEALAC), which took place in Bali on 13 and 14 June, brought together government authorities from 36 Latin American and East Asian countries in a region-to-region dialogue. According to a speech by Antonio Prado, Deputy…

Investment in Education, Science, Technology and Infrastructure Is Key to Increasing Tax Collection

13 Jun 2013 | Press Release

(12 June 2013) Investment in education, science, technology and infrastructure, along with improvements to the budgetary framework and better tax evasion controls, are key to raising the level of tax revenues in the region's countries, according to Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), speaking today in Mexico City. The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the International Seminar on Tax Policy: Challenges and Trends, organized by the Centre of Public Finance Studies (CEFP) of the Mexican Chamber o…

ECLAC Highlights Agricultural Cooperation Opportunities between China and Latin America and the Caribbean

10 Jun 2013 | Press Release

(10 June 2013) Speaking at the first China-Latin American and the Caribbean Forum of Ministers of Agriculture, which ended on 9 June in Beijing, China, Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated "In the agricultural sector, there are real complementarities between China and Latin America and the Caribbean that can be used to build a strategic trade, technology and cultural relationship with mutual benefits". In his address to officials attending the Forum, Mr. Prado underlined the need to achieve more balanced trade …

Norwegian Government and ECLAC Sign Cooperation Agreement to Promote Equality

7 Jun 2013 | Press Release

(7 June 2013) Today in Oslo, the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) signed an economic cooperation agreement aimed at sharing experiences and lesson learned in the building of social pacts for equality. Heikki Eidsvoll Holmas, Norwegian Minister for International Development, and Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, signed the agreement which will focus on the assessment of public policies and social and fiscal tools that can expand and better distribute the revenues of the exploitation of natural resources. …

Twenty-seventh Session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC Was Held in New York

30 May 2013 | Press Release

(29 May 2013) At the Twenty-seventh Session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC, on 28 and 29 May 2013 in New York, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of this United Nations regional commission, set out topics including the position of the region today and the implications of the proposed structural change for equality spearheaded by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Speaking to delegates from the Commission's 33 Member States and associate members in the conference hall of the United Nations Headquarters, Ms. Bárcena stated "Structural change proposes a …

ECLAC and GIZ Signed Contract to Implement Joint Programme on Sustainable Development

30 May 2013 | Press Release

See photo gallery (3 October 2012) Today, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, and the Director of the South America Department of the German Agency for International Cooperation (or GIZ, because of its name in German), Sabine Müller, signed the contract to implement the cooperation programme known as "Promoting low-carbon development and social cohesion in Latin America and the Caribbean". The ceremony was also attended by Jürgen Klenk, Resident Director of GIZ in Chile. The programme was agreed by ECLAC and the …

Region's Countries Must Strengthen Institutions in Order to Maximize the Contribution of Natural Resources to Development

28 May 2013 | Press Release

(28 May 2013) According to a new ECLAC document launched today, Latin American countries must review and strengthen the institutions and instruments in order to maximize the contribution of natural resources to regional development, particularly in the current cycle of high prices. The report Natural resources within the Union of South American Nations: Status and trends for a regional development agenda was presented by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of this United Nations regional commission, at the Conference of the Union of South American Nations on Natural Resources and Integra…

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