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Countries Approve Proposal to Move Towards a Regional Agenda on Governance of Planning and Public Management

9 November 2023 | Press Release

Authorities approved today a proposal to move towards a regional agenda on governance of planning and public management for sustainable development, at the closing session of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which concluded today in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The proposal – made by the Chair of the Regional Council for Planning’s Presiding Officers, led by the Dominican Republic – consists of four pilla…

At ECLAC, Paraguay’s President Calls for Dialogue among Latin American and Caribbean Countries to Offer a Continent of Peace in a World Plagued by Conflict

7 November 2023 | Press Release

In the framework of his official visit to Chile, the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, gave a keynote lecture today at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Santiago, urging the region’s countries to dialogue in a context of mutual respect, putting the interests that unite them first and offering a continent of peace in a troubled world, plagued by conflicts that have affected all countries due to their magnitude. The Paraguayan leader – who took office on August 15, 2023 – was received by the United Nation…

Countries Reaffirm the Urgency of Having More and Better Planning to Strengthen Governance and Articulate Development Plans in the Short, Medium and Long Term

7 November 2023 | Press Release

Authorities from the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean reaffirmed today the urgency of having more and better planning, which would allow for strengthening governance and would articulate public plans and policies in the short, medium and long term, along with the distinct territorial scales and stakeholders, during the inauguration of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This meeting – which is taking p…

Value of Latin America and the Caribbean’s Goods Exports Will Fall 2% in 2023 in a Context of Great Weakness in Global Trade

2 November 2023 | Press Release

The value of goods exports from Latin America and the Caribbean will fall by 2% in 2023, in a context of great weakness in global trade, ECLAC indicated today upon presenting a new annual report on the performance of the region’s foreign trade. The report entitled International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2023. Structural change and trends in global and regional trade: challenges and opportunities was unveiled at a press conference led by the United Nations organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs. According to the report, the volume exported by t…

Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of UNCTAD: The World Desperately Needs Solidarity, Fraternity and Multilateralism

30 October 2023 | Press Release

“The suffering we see around us is a reminder of what is at stake when we lose sight of the long term, when we leave people behind and we lose the ability to put ourselves in others’ shoes. What we’re seeing is a preview of what the world could be in 2030, if the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) fail,” Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), warned during the seventeenth Raúl Prebisch Lecture, which she gave today at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The former Vice Pr…

In Lecture at ECLAC, Winston Dookeran Advocates for the Caribbean to Shift its Integration Model and Forge Wider Convergence Spaces

25 October 2023 | Press Release

A shift is needed in the Caribbean’s integration model – which seems limited by size, design and inertia – in order to forge wider convergence spaces for approaching production, the institutional framework and economic frontiers, according to Winston Dookeran, former Foreign Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and current Secretary-General of EUCLID University, who gave a keynote lecture today at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. To increase the visibility of the Caribbean situation and perspective and contribute to sub…

ECLAC’s Member Countries Hold 37th Session of the Organization’s Committee of the Whole in New York

17 October 2023 | Press Release

Ambassadors and official representatives of member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) met this Tuesday, October 17 at the United Nations headquarters in New York to conduct the Thirty-seventh session of the Committee of the Whole of the organization, where participants reviewed a report on the Commission’s activities in 2022, presented a proposal on the 2025 programme of work for its adoption, and shared an updated overview of the socioeconomic situation in the region. The Committee of the Whole of ECLAC is the official administrative body that all…

The Region’s Countries Agreed to Advance the Care Society to Achieve Gender Equality and a More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Future

12 October 2023 | Press Release

Women’s Affairs Ministers and senior authorities from national mechanisms for women’s advancement in Latin America and the Caribbean agreed to advance the care society that proposes ambitious solutions with a sense of urgency, not just to reverse inequality and the feminization of poverty but also to achieve gender equality and women’s autonomy and to attain a more productive, inclusive and sustainable future in the region, during the closing session of the Sixty-fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the agreements re…

Accelerating Implementation of the Buenos Aires Commitment is an Opportunity to Improve the Lives of Women, Adolescents and Girls

11 October 2023 | Press Release

Accelerating the implementation of the Buenos Aires Commitment – adopted by ECLAC’s Member States in November 2022 and which promotes comprehensive care policies and systems in all Latin American and Caribbean countries – is an opportunity to improve the lives of women, adolescents and girls in the region and foster countries’ development and the well-being of society as a whole, according to Women’s Affairs Ministers and United Nations organization representatives participating in today’s inauguration of the Sixty-fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in …

ECLAC, FAO and IICA Call for Actions to Strengthen Regional Cooperation in Order to Promote Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Agrifood Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

6 October 2023 | Press Release

San José, Costa Rica, October 6, 2023 (IICA). The strengthening of regional cooperation is vital today to address the challenges and opportunities created by the confluence of crises around the world, and to be able to promote sustainable, inclusive and resilient agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The point is emphasized in the latest edition of The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas: A Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean 2023-2024, a report prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Food an…

The Region’s Countries Reaffirmed the Importance of Safeguarding Progress on Inclusive Social Development and Halting the Setbacks Prompted by Cascading Crises

5 October 2023 | Press Release

Representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries gathered at the Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean and at the XV Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean reaffirmed today the importance of putting people and their rights at the heart of development, safeguarding the progress the region has achieved on inclusive social development through appropriate social investment, and halting the setbacks prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and cascading crises. Participating in this regional event – organize…

Strengthening the Social Institutional Framework and Governance is Fundamental for Making Progress on Eradicating Poverty and Reducing Inequality in the Region

3 October 2023 | Press Release

A call for articulating policies for growth, productive development and the labor market with social policies, and for strengthening the social institutional framework and governance of decision-making in a framework of regional cooperation with a view to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was made today by government authorities and international officials at the inauguration of the Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The event – organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the…

Statistical Conference of the Americas Successfully Concludes its Twelfth Meeting

28 September 2023 | Press Release

The Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas came to a close today at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, with a call to generate and consolidate at a national and regional level environmental, climate change and disaster statistics and indicators, which provide reliable and timely metrics for decision-making and for moving forward on implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The intergovernmental meeting – which is the main forum for discussing the development of statistics i…

Ricardo Hausmann Highlighted Relationship between Technology, Knowledge, Productive Development and Inequality, in Keynote Lecture at ECLAC

28 September 2023 | Press Release

The prominent economist and Professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Ricardo Hausmann, highlighted today the relationship between technology, knowledge, productive development and inequality in economies, in a keynote lecture given at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile as part of the Keynote Lecture Series organized to commemorate the United Nations regional commission’s 75th anniversary. Hausmann, who is also the founder and Director of Harvard University’s Growth Lab, was received by José Manuel …

States and Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean Are Urged to Bolster the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters

27 September 2023 | Press Release

The Second Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean began today in Panama City with a call for States and governments in the region to bolster protection and ensure a safe and conducive setting so that environmental defenders can carry out their important work. The meeting – which will run through Thursday, September 28, 2023 – is organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in its capacity as Secretariat of the Escazú Agreement, in partnership with the Government of Panama, the …

Official Statistics are an Indispensable Public Good for the Proper Functioning of Societies and Democracy

26 September 2023 | Press Release

Official statistics are an indispensable public good for the proper functioning of societies and democracy, according to the representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries gathered at the Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, which is taking place through Thursday, September 28 at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. Starting today, the intergovernmental meeting – which is the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region – has convened authorities from Nation…

Executive Secretary of ECLAC Highlights the Importance of Regional Cooperation and Multilateralism at the G-77 and China Summit

16 September 2023 | Press Release

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, spoke today at the plenary session of the G-77 and China Summit, which is being held on 15 and 16 September in Havana, Cuba. He highlighted the importance of regional cooperation and multilateralism to take on the challenges facing humanity—especially climate change—and promote new policies of sustainable and inclusive productive development that allow countries in the Global South to develop their technological and innovation capacities. The G-77 and China Summit: “C…

Tarja Halonen: To Achieve Sustainable and Resilient Development, We Need to Reduce Inequalities and Vulnerabilities

12 September 2023 | Press Release

The former President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, delivered a keynote speech today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, in which she stressed that to achieve sustainable and resilient development, we need to reduce the inequalities and vulnerabilities that risk to leave individuals, communities and entire countries behind. The Finnish lawyer and politician, who on March 1, 2000 became the first woman to hold the Presidency of her country, gave a lecture entitled The Social Dimension of the 2030 Agenda: The Global Challenge…

Latin American and Caribbean Economies Will Maintain Low Growth Levels in 2023 and 2024

5 September 2023 | Press Release

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) released today its annual report entitled Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023. Financing a sustainable transition: investment for growth and climate change action, in which it forecasts that the region’s economies will maintain low levels of growth this year and next year, affected by a negative global and very complex regional economic outlook. According to the document – one of the institution’s main economic reports, which has been published since its beginnings in 1948 – average regional Gross Domestic …

Latin America and the Caribbean Must Take Advantage of Historic Window of Opportunity and Reactivate Regional Integration, Focusing on the Ecological Transition, Aloizio Mercadante Proposed at ECLAC

4 September 2023 | Press Release

Latin America and the Caribbean must act with “courage” to reactivate and accelerate regional integration, putting the focus on the necessary decarbonization of the region’s economies to tackle the severe climate crisis, Aloizio Mercadante, President of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), underscored during a keynote lecture he gave at ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The Brazilian economist, politician and scholar made a presentation entitled “The role of development banks in transforming the Latin American development model,” the third such address in the Keynote Lecture Ser…

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