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6 March 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Promotes Big Data Analytics for the Sustainable Development of Latin America and the Caribbean
During a seminar held in Santiago, Chile, the United Nations regional body presented a project that seeks to improve national capabilities for measuring the digital economy in the region.
2 March 2017 | Speech

Seminar on basic citizen’s income organized by ECLAC and Nexos magazine
Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC (in Spanish).
1 March 2017 | Speech

Improving the governance and coordination of the UN Development System
Statement of Ms. Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, in the Economic and Social Council Operational Activities for Development Segment.
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24 February 2017 | Announcement

How Can Big Data Analytics Be Used for Development in the Region? Specialists meet at ECLAC
On Monday, March 6, a seminar entitled Think Big: Data innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in Santiago, drawing experts from MIT, Data-Pop Alliance, UN Global Pulse and regional bodies.
22 February 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Publishes Revamped Edition of Statistical Yearbook with Relevant Data on the Region’s Situation
The 2016 version has a new design that incorporates graphic elements and digital links related to a select set of indicators for Latin American and Caribbean countries.
20 February 2017 | Press Release

GDP of Central America and the Dominican Republic to Grow by an Average of 4.5% in 2017: ECLAC
The subregion will continue to enjoy the highest growth rate in Latin America and the Caribbean, in spite of uncertain international conditions and a slowdown in private consumption and investment.
16 February 2017 | Speech

Academic Inaugural Conference 2017: The Future of Colombia, Social Justice and Economics
Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC (opening and closure, in Spanish).
16 February 2017 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena: Peace in Colombia Offers a Historic Opportunity for Moving Toward Sustainable Development
ECLAC’S Executive Secretary participated in a conference in Bogota, along with President Juan Manuel Santos, economist Joseph Stiglitz and other notable speakers.
13 February 2017 | News

ECLAC promotes integrated national development planning to support the implementation of the SDGs in the Caribbean
The Caribbean symposium on mainstreaming the SDGs in national development planning sets the stage for consideration of a coordinated approach to planning, implementation, follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the subregion, including through the strengthening of national institutional infrastructure and by establishing a common statistical platform for measuring progress in SDG implementation across the Caribbean.
Participants in the 2014 Summer School of ECLAC.
10 February 2017 | News

Applications Open for the Eighteenth Session of the ECLAC Summer School

Classes will take place from 20 July to 8 September 2017 at the headquarters of the United Nations Regional Commission in Santiago, Chile.
Delegación de la Comisión Consultiva en Asuntos Administrativos y de Presupuesto de la ONU a la CEPAL.
9 February 2017 | News

UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions Meets at ECLAC
The delegation was received by the regional commission’s ranking representatives, led by its Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena.
Omar Bello gives disaster presentation in Peru
9 February 2017 | News

Step by step disaster guidelines to be finalized following joint ECLAC WHO/PAHO training
ECLAC and WHO/PAHO hold joint disaster training in Lima and Piura focusing on the social aspects of a disaster, with particular attention on issues such as health and water and sanitation.
6 February 2017 | Press Release

Germany and ECLAC to Cooperate to Strengthen the Sustainable Management of Mining Resources in the Andean Region
At a meeting held today, the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chile, Rolf Schulze, and the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, also agreed to allocate additional resources to a programme to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in the region.
30 January 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Member Countries Review Preparations for the First Meeting of the Forum on Sustainable Development
Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Chef de Cabinet to the United Nations Secretary-General, and Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, spoke at the thirty-second session of the regional organization’s Committee of the Whole, chaired by Mexico.
27 January 2017 | News

Eight countries receive disaster training in Trinidad and Tobago
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) have convened a four-day training course in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to improve the ability of policymakers from eight Caribbean countries to prepare for disasters and to assess their effects and impacts.
24 January 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Presents to CELAC the Region’s Challenges to Achieving Sustainable Development in a Complex Context
The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, made a presentation before the Foreign Ministers attending the bloc’s V Summit of Heads of State and Government in the Dominican Republic.
18 January 2017 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena Encourages China and Latin America and the Caribbean to Cooperate in Key Areas to Boost Development
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary is participating this week in various sessions of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, which is being held in Davos, Switzerland.
17 January 2017 | Press Release

Latin America and the Caribbean to return to positive growth in 2017: UN report
The region’s recovery will however be shallow amid persistent external and internal headwinds.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
1 January 2017 | News

New UN chief Guterres pledges to make 2017 'a year for peace'
António Guterres took the helm of the United Nations this 1st January.

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