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ECLAC Launched Platform for Cluster and Other Territorial Productive Articulation Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean

12 Dec 2023 | Press Release

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) launched today a Platform for cluster and other territorial productive articulation initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, which seeks to give visibility to, enhance reciprocal cooperation between and strengthen the multiple productive articulation initiatives that are underway in the region, in addition to increasing their numbers and their contribution to Latin American and Caribbean countries’ productive development. The presentation was made during a virtual event that featured opening remarks by ECLAC’s Executiv…

ECLAC Presents at COP28 Report that Stresses Climate Financing Needs for Latin America and the Caribbean in its Fight Against Global Warming

4 Dec 2023 | Press Release

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, unveiled today in the framework of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), being held in the city of Dubai (United Arab Emirates), a new report by the organization that stresses the climate financing needs for Latin America and the Caribbean in its fight against global warming. The document entitled The Economics of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023: Financing needs and policy tools for the transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient economies pr…

Climate Financing Needs for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Just Transition, the Link between Nature and Climate, and the Escazú Agreement are the Priority Issues that ECLAC Will Promote at COP28

30 Nov 2023 | Press Release

Climate financing needs for Latin America and the Caribbean, the just transition, the connections between the climate and nature, and the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters (better known as the Escazú Agreement) are the priority issues that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will promote at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), a crucial milestone in the fight against the climate and ecological crisis that will take place in the…

Santiago Levy in Lecture at ECLAC: The Labor Market’s Radical Transformation is an Essential Condition for Socially Inclusive Growth

24 Nov 2023 | Press Release

A radical transformation of the labor market is an essential condition for socially inclusive growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. This requires a substantial overhaul of the social protection architecture, Santiago Levy, a prominent Mexican economist and politician, sustained today in a keynote lecture delivered at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. “We have to overcome the formal-informal dichotomy with a different social protection architecture. ECLAC has shown the way. Its calls for universalizing social se…

In 2022, At Least 4,050 Women Were Victims of Femicide in Latin America and the Caribbean: ECLAC

23 Nov 2023 | Press Release

In 2022, at least 4,050 women were victims of femicide (also known as feminicide) in 26 countries and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the latest data 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). This is equivalent to one gender-related killing of a woman every two hours in the region. “It is not possible to identify an upward or downward trend in the rates of femicide or feminicide in each country, since the variations are small an…

Poverty in Latin America Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022, ECLAC Reports with an Urgent Call for Progress on Labour Inclusion

23 Nov 2023 | Press Release

In 2022, the percentage of people living in poverty fell to 29% of Latin America’s population (181 million people), 1.2 percentage points lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic began, while extreme poverty declined to 11.2% of the region’s population (70 million people), remaining at levels similar to 2019, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reported today. The report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023: Labour inclusion as a key axis of inclusive social development – presented by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs –…

Countries Call for Redoubling Efforts to Achieve Full Implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development

15 Nov 2023 | Press Release

The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean called for redoubling efforts to address the remaining challenges to full implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, during the closing session of the Fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, which was held on Tuesday, November 14 and Wednesday, November 15 at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. At the meeting – which brought together nearly 500 people on-site, more than 260 of whom …

Adela Cortina at ECLAC: The Migration Problem is Global and Needs Global Responses

14 Nov 2023 | Press Release

“The migration problem is global and needs global responses,” Adela Cortina, Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Valencia (Spain), emphasized today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where she gave a keynote lecture to mark the United Nations regional organization’s 75th anniversary. The renowned Spanish philosopher made a presentation entitled “Reactions to migration in Latin America and the Caribbean: migration, aporophobia[1] and ethical challenges for humanity,” in which she a…

Latin America and the Caribbean Reaffirms its Commitment to Implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, 10 Years After its Adoption

14 Nov 2023 | Press Release

The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean reaffirmed today their commitment to the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, the region’s most important intergovernmental agreement in this area and a comprehensive road map that constitutes one of the most advanced instruments in the world for promoting the population’s rights within a sustainable development framework, during a commemoration of the tenth anniversary of its adoption. At the special session “10 years of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development” – held in the framework of the F…

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

9 Nov 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…

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 Nov 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…

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 Nov 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…

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 Nov 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 Oct 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…

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