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25 January 2024 | Press Release
The meeting, organized by the Ministry of Education of Chile (MINEDUC) and UNESCO, with the support of ECLAC, CAF, UNICEF and the World Bank, addresses the challenge of educational reactivation, the transformation of teaching, and financing. To overcome these challenges, it is necessary to have public policies to guarantee the right to education for 125 million students in the region.
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18 January 2024 | Announcement
The meeting is convened by UNESCO and the Ministry of Education of Chile. It is co-organised with the CAF BANK, the World Bank, ECLAC and UNICEF.
14 December 2023 | Press Release
The United Nations regional organization released today its last economic report for the current year, indicating that the region will grow 2.2% in 2023 and 1.9% in 2024.
12 December 2023 | Press Release
At a virtual event led by Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, with the participation of prominent specialists in this area, officials presented this tool, which includes an interactive map with around 258 georeferenced initiatives thus far.
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7 December 2023 | Announcement
The document, which offers updated economic growth estimates for the region’s countries in 2023 and 2024, will be released at a press conference by the United Nations organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, on Thursday, December 14.
4 December 2023 | Press Release
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” was unveiled by the organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, during the global gathering that is taking place in Dubai.
23 November 2023 | Press Release
Femicidal violence can be prevented with comprehensive and forceful state responses, says the United Nations regional organization, which urges countries to move towards a care society in the region.
23 November 2023 | Press Release
Despite this improvement in the indicators, more than 180 million people in the region do not have enough income to meet their basic needs and 70 million of them lack the income needed to acquire a basic food basket, the Commission warns in its report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023.
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22 November 2023 | News
The global organization’s highest authority urged UN agencies, funds and programs to redouble their efforts on joint work to support the country.
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16 November 2023 | Announcement
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, will give a press conference on Thursday, November 23 from Santiago, Chile.
15 November 2023 | Press Release
Authorities concluded the Fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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14 November 2023 | News
The report, prepared by ECLAC with support from UNFPA, was presented to countries in the framework of the Fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
14 November 2023 | Press Release
In the framework of the Fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, countries commemorated the tenth anniversary of the region’s most important intergovernmental agreement in this area.
2 November 2023 | Press Release
ECLAC presented its flagship annual report on the region’s international trade outlook, in which it urges countries to implement productive development policies to diversify their export basket and make it more sophisticated, including by attracting FDI in strategic sectors.
31 October 2023 | Op-ed
By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
30 October 2023 | Press Release
The prominent economist and former Vice President of Costa Rica, delivered the seventeenth Raúl Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC.
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27 October 2023 | Announcement
The United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, will lead a press conference to unveil the report on Thursday, November 2 in Santiago, Chile.
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26 October 2023 | News
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, participated in the “Dialogues on Uruguay’s Future,” where he stressed the need to escalate productive development policies and focus efforts on dynamic sectors to increase growth in the region’s countries and make it more sustainable and inclusive.
25 October 2023 | Press Release
The prominent Trinidadian economist and politician was the fifth presenter to participate in the Keynote Lecture Series organized to commemorate the United Nations regional organization’s 75th anniversary.
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17 October 2023 | Announcement
This celebration will take place in the framework of the fifth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, which will be held on November 14-15 at ECLAC’s headquarters in Chile.

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