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ECLAC Proposes a New Social Cohesion Covenant for Latin America and the Caribbean

30 Jun 2004 | Press Release

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposes adopting a pact of social cohesion to overcome the vulnerability in which most of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean live, in its report, Productive Development in Open Economies, which this United Nations body is presenting to the region's governments at its Thirtieth Session, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The social cohesion covenant must involve active labour market policies based on some elements of solidarity to finance social protection services. To progress in long-run competitiveness, ECLAC also …

Industrial Legacy Key to Puerto Rico's Economic Development and Regional Integration

29 Jun 2004 | Press Release

The development strategy applied by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to participate in the changing regional economy should make the most of a legacy of more than four decades of industrialization, at the same time as it strengthens the local foundations of competitiveness. This is the recommendation included in a summary of the report Evolución de la economía de Puerto Rico, su inserción en un mundo globalizado y lineamientos de política para enfrentar desafíos futuros (Trends in the Puerto Rican Economy, Its Integration in a Globalized World and Policy Guidelines to Face Future Challenges), …

ECLAC Calls On Governments to Implement Active Policies for Economic and Social Development

28 Jun 2004 | Press Release

As its Thirtieth Session began, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented the report Productive Development in Open Economies, which will serve as the basis for discussion by the delegates attending the meeting. The report, prepared by this regional United Nations commission, offers recommendations on social and economic policies to member and associate states for the coming years. In the report ECLAC calls on governments to implement active policies to encourage economic and social development, which are able to overcome both market and governmental flaws.…

ECLAC celebrates Thirtieth Session in Puerto Rico

22 Jun 2004 | Press Release

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will celebrate its Thirtieth Session in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 June to 2 July 2004, with participation from some 300 delegates from the 41 member and seven associate states involved in this regional United Nations Commission, along with representatives from United Nations specialized bodies, non-governmental organizations and special guests. Official delegations will include ministers of education, the economy, labour, planning and foreign relations, along with other authorities from the different countries. On this occas…

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Adopt the Mexico City Consensus

12 Jun 2004 | Press Release

The participants in the Ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Mexico City, today unanimously approved the meeting's concluding document, called the Mexico City Consensus, after three days of debate. In it, the governments of the countries participating in this event, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Mexico's National Women's Institute (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres, INMUJERES), reaffirmed their decision to apply measures in different areas. The document calls for the implementation of public polici…

Poverty and Empowerment are the Focus of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

11 Jun 2004 | Press Release

The Ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, being held in Mexico, today received the visit of some of the region's main specialists, who will deal with and analyse a range of current issues from a gender perspective. The event, which runs from 10 to 12 June 2004, in the Conference Area of the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry, on Avenida Ricardo Flores Magón N° 1, Tlatelolco, Mexico City, has been organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the National Women's Institute (Instituto Nacion…

Women of Latin America and the Caribbean Evaluate Commitments to Improving Gender Equity

10 Jun 2004 | Press Release

From 10 to 12 June 2004 the Ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place in Mexico City. The meeting will focus on international commitments made in the Regional Programme of Action for Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, approved in 1994 by the Sixth Regional Conference, and reaffirmed in 2000 by the Lima Consensus. The President of Mexico, His Excellency Vicente Fox, ECLAC Executive Secretary José Luis Machinea, and the president of Mexico's National Women's Institute, Patricia Espinosa will officially open the conference, organized by the Econo…

Mexico's President Calls for Building Consensuses on Commitments Already Assumed

10 Jun 2004 | Press Release

In the presence of the President of Mexico, His Excellency Vicente Fox, the Ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean opened today. It is one of the most important meetings held in this region in 2004, and its purpose is to analyse and monitor policies to improve social and economic conditions and citizens' participation as they affect women. The president of Mexico's National Women's Institute (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres, INMUJERES), Patricia Espinosa; the Executive Secretary of this regional United Nations' commission, José Luis Machinea; Mexico's Minister …

The Ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean Starts in Mexico

9 Jun 2004 | Press Release

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Mexico's National Women's Institute (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres de México, INMUJERES) will hold a news conference to provide information about the Ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, on Thursday 10 June at 12:45 pm, in Room 1 of the Conference Area, in Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ricardo Flores Magón N° 1, Tlatelolco, Mexico City. ECLAC's Executive Secretary, José Luis Machinea, the Director of Mexico's National Women's Institute, Patricia Espinosa, the Under-Secretary for G…

Poverty Affects Women More than Men in Latin America

28 May 2004 | Press Release

Almost half the women of Latin American older than 15 years have no income of their own, while just one of every five men is in this situation. Moreover, women heads of households have less monetary income than men, in both impoverished and higher income households. To understand the phenomenon of poverty and its persistence in the region it is necessary to analyse its links to equity in employment, particularly women's economic autonomy and empowerment. This will be the focus of the Ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held in Mexico City from 10 to 12 …

ECLAC Warns of Growing Demand for Health Care Due to Ageing Population

30 Sep 2003 | Press Release

The noticeable rise in both absolute and relative terms in the population aged 60 years and over, expected in the decades to come, combined with the possibility of new generations reaching old age in worse conditions of health will bring steady growth in demand for health care, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in a report prepared with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in preparation for the Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing, to take place in Santiago, Chile, from 19-21 November 2003. At the meeting, representa…

Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Former Brazilian President Gives the Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture Series

4 Aug 2003 | Press Release

(4 August 2003) On the occasion of the Third Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture Series, nextFriday 8 August 2003 the former president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, will deliver a magisterial lecture entitled Beyond the economy: interactions between policy and economic development, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The lecture will begin at 11 am in the Raúl Prebisch Conference Room at the ECLAC building (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile), where José Antonio Ocampo…

Experts Promote the Development of Statistical Information Throughout the Region

12 Jun 2003 | Press Release

The Second meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) will be held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), from the 18 to 20 June 2003 in Santiago, Chile. Representatives from most member countries belonging to this United Nations body will discuss promoting and developing statistics throughout the region. ECLAC's Executive Secretary, José Antonio Ocampo will preside at the opening ceremony, along with the Statistical Conference of the Americas' Executive Committee President, Eduardo Pe…

Professor Joseph Stiglitz: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Lecture at ECLAC

22 Aug 2002 | Press Release

(22 August 2002) Next Monday 26 August Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001, will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), to give a Magisterial Lecture entitled: Whither Reforms? Towards a New Agenda for Latin America, on the occasion of the Second Raúl Prebisch Chair Magisterial Lecture. The lecture will take place at 11:00 am in the Raúl Prebisch Room at ECLAC (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld s/n, Vitacura, Santiago) and will be chaired by the Executive Secretary of this Regional …

A Positive Agenda

10 May 2002 | Press Release

'Latin America and the Caribbean must adopt a positive agenda for the construction of a new international order and make a firm commitment to its implementation,' the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) told its member governments during its 29th Session. This positive focus will take advantage of an essential lesson from history: mere resistance to processes as profound as the current phase of globalization will fail in the long term. In its report Globalization and Development ECLAC proposes some desirable alternatives for a more solid and equitable form of globa…

ECLAC's 29th Session Closes in Brasilia

10 May 2002 | Press Release

After five days of debates on globalization and regional Development, the 29th Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) closed this afternoon. The meeting ran from 6 to 10 May. José Antonio Ocampo, Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Celso Lafer, Brazil's Foreign Affairs Minister, closed the session. Delegates from 28 member states and two associate members of ECLAC approved 11 resolutions setting the agenda for the Commission's work in several areas. They also accepted an invitation from the Asso…

Enormous Potential for Solving Environmental Problems

9 May 2002 | Press Release

One of the characteristics of the third phase of globalization (from 1974 on) has been the environmental interdependency of countries. Globalization has produced multiple effects in terms of environmental sustainability. Scientific evidence indicates that the growing scale and accumulated impact of human activities has resulted in global warming, the thinning of the ozone layer, the decline in biodiversity and the advance of desertification and drought (sometimes referred to as 'global public evils'). These are not reflected in markets but do affect common interests, beyond the national perspe…

Digital Divide could Widen in Latin America

8 May 2002 | Press Release

More liberal trade, investment and technological flows in recent decades have brought many benefits to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Nonetheless, simply achieving countries' macroeconomic stability has not been enough to capture and absorb the full benefits in the region. The process of creating technological abilities at the national level and of reducing productivity gaps compared to more developed economies has not been satisfactory, according to the report Globalization and Development, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Th…

The Financial Risks of Globalization

7 May 2002 | Press Release

For Latin America and the Caribbean, the volatile nature of capital flows, typical of the third phase of globalization, has brought with it unstable economic growth. One reflection of this volatility has been the frequent financial crises that have struck the industrialized world and developing nations in the past three decades, which have further deepened macroeconomic and financial imbalance between these two blocs. At its 29th Session, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has alerted its member governments about the importance of this issue, proposing a series…

International Migration Is Excluded from Globalization

7 May 2002 | Press Release

'In a world which is more interconnected than ever, in which financial and trade flows have been liberalized, the mobility of people runs up against severe barriers which restrict it,' says the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in its new paper, Globalization and Development, being presented this week to member governments in Brasilia, during its 29th Session. 'The difficulties placed in the way of migration ... reveal the asymmetrical aspects of a form of globalization which includes some individuals, population groups, countries and regions but at the same time…

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