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4 March 2024 | Press Release

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Met with Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo de León
The United Nations regional economic commission and the Government of Guatemala align efforts to quicken the pace in moving towards more productive, inclusive and sustainable development in the Central American country.
3 October 2023 | Infographic

Infographic. Diagnosis of structural gaps in Guatemala
Between 1990 and 2020, Guatemala achieved progress in the fight against poverty and inequality; however, there are still important structural, wide and persistent gaps in various social, economic and territorial areas. In addition, the recent pandemic generated by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) and its variants caused one of the deepest economic declines in the past 100 years, generating greater poverty and inequality.
3 October 2023 | Infographic

Infographic. Challenge for educational transformation in Guatemala
Despite efforts, large gaps in access to the effective enjoyment of the right to education persist in Guatemala, particularly for rural populations and Indigenous peoples. The unprecedented educational crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased gaps, school dropout rates, learning losses, illiteracy and the slowdown in average schooling levels
3 October 2023 | Infographic

Infographic. Public expenditure gaps in health and education in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico
Based on this conceptual framework, gaps corresponding to inequalities are identified, either between countries (horizontal) or between social groups or areas in each country (vertical), based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
3 October 2023 | Infographic

Infographic. A proposal for adjusting the measurament of income distribution in El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica
Aanalysis of socioeconomic inequality that involves studying the distances in access to income between the various social strata based on household income in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala, but adjusting income to the National Accounts in each country.
3 October 2023 | Infographic

Infographic.Recommendations for reducing firewood consumption Guatemala and Honduras
Guatemala and Honduras are among the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the highest levels of poverty, with the lowest proportion of the population dependent on clean fuels and technologies, and the highest use of firewood. Available estimates and statistics show that a large part of the population, particularly in rural areas, uses firewood as the main cooking fuel. Although there is progress in terms of electricity coverage, there is an nderconsumption of electricity, since the most used energy source at the residential level is firewood.
Cover remittances and value chains, ECLAC Mexico document
22 September 2020 | News

ECLAC Identifies 6 Lessons to Promote the Use of Family Remittances to Strengthen Value Chains
The new document poses the need to provide steadfast support to small producers to strengthen their capacities and their financial inclusion.
The presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador; Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, and Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, and the Vicepresident of El Salvador, Óscar Samuel Ortiz, with the ECLAC's Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena.
17 May 2019 | Announcement

ECLAC Will Present to Mexico a Proposal for the El Salvador-Guatemala-Honduras-Mexico Comprehensive Development Program
The conference, which will be led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional commission, Alicia Bárcena, will take place next Monday, May 20, at Mexico’s National Palace.
Portada documento racismo en Guatemala
10 December 2018 | News

New Public Policies Are Proposed to Eradicate Racism and Discrimination in Guatemala
The study, requested to ECLAC by the Presidential Commission on Discrimination and Racism against the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala (CODISRA), offers recommendations that would allow for moving toward social equality while also promoting cultural diversity.
16 January 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Meets with President of Guatemala
Alicia Bárcena attended Jimmy Morales’ presidential inauguration and met with him personally.
5 November 2013 | Press Release

The Region's Countries Agreed on a Shared Vision for Making Progress with Access Rights in terms of Environmental Matters
ECLAC and the Government of Peru organized a meeting on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
4 November 2013 | Press Release

Regional Port Activity Down Due to Sluggish Exports
Port throughputs in the first half of 2013 posted their slowest growth since 2009.
13 June 2013 | News

UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the Application of Rights-Based Public Policies
12 June 2013 | News

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Foreign Trade Will Be Discussed at ECLAC
10 June 2013 | News

Seminar on Indicators of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Will Be Held at ECLAC
8 September 2011 | Press Release

Government of Guatemala Awards ECLAC with the Order of the Quetzal
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Haroldo Rodas, presented the award to the organization of the United Nations led by Alicia Bárcena.
19 April 2011 | Press Release

Academics from Mexico and Guatemala Won the ECLAC "Fernando Cuevas" Prize
One of the studies tackles the barriers that public monopolies impose on climate change policy in Mexico. The second study analyses the use of energy accounts as a means of assessing sectoral efficiency in Central America.
18 March 2011 | Press Release

United Nations Will Continue to Support Guatemala in the Fight against Impunity and Insecurity
ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, accompanied the Secretary-General on his first tour of the Central American country.
4 January 2011 | Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Reaffirms Commitment to Rebuilding of Guatemala
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, took part in the meeting on behalf of Ban Ki-moon.
22 December 2010 | Fact sheet

The paradox of progressivity in countries with low levels of taxation: Income tax in Guatemala
Fact sheet. The paradox of progressivity in countries with low levels of taxation: Income tax in Guatemala

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