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12 December 2024 | Announcement

ECLAC Will Update Economic Growth Projections for the Region’s Countries at the Launch of its Last Annual Report from 2024
The “Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024” will be presented on Wednesday, December 18 at a press conference led by the United Nations organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.
9 December 2024 | Press Release

Latin America and the Caribbean Need Better Fiscal Policies to Finance their Development
The OECD, ECLAC, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the European Commission launched their joint report "Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO) 2024."
5 December 2024 | Press Release

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Committed to Accelerating the Effective Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Regional Gender Agenda
Today the Sixty-sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean came to a close at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
4 December 2024 | Press Release

It is Time for Strategic Investments and Public Policies to Advance Towards Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Sixty-sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is taking place on December 4-5 at ECLAC’s headquarters in Chile.
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29 November 2024 | Announcement

Ministers and Senior Authorities Will Meet at ECLAC to Review Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 30 Years After its Approval as well as Preparations for the XVI Regional Conference on Women, to be Held in Mexico in 2025
On December 4-5, the Sixty-sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will ocurr in Santiago, Chile.
28 November 2024 | Press Release

Population Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean Falls Below Expectations and Region’s Total Population Reaches 663 Million in 2024
ECLAC’s 2024 Demographic Observatory report, launched today, examines the acceleration of demographic changes in the first quarter of the 21st century in the region, along with the implications of ageing for the labor force and care.
27 November 2024 | Press Release

To Build a More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Future, Latin America and the Caribbean Must Overcome the Trap of Low Institutional Capacities and Ineffective Governance
Today marked the inauguration of the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning (RCP) of ILPES-ECLAC in Chile.
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26 November 2024 | Announcement

Authorities from the Region Will Discuss the Challenges of Transforming Institutional Frameworks for Development Planning
On November 27-28, the Thirtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning will take place at ECLAC’s headquarters. On Friday, November 29, a Seminar on Collaborative Governance as a Tool for Sustainable Development will be held.
26 November 2024 | Press Release

Clustering the Productive Economy: A Strategy for Competitiveness, Well-Being, Prosperity and Inclusive Development
A prominent Spanish scholar specialized in clusters, Jon Azúa, delivered the eighteenth Raúl Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
22 November 2024 | Press Release

At Least 11 Women Are Victims of Femicide Every Day in Latin America and the Caribbean
ECLAC calls for urgent action to prevent and eliminate gendered violence in the region.
22 November 2024 | Infographic

Regional and global dimensions of the 2030 Agenda for sustentainable development
Forum of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development.
21 November 2024 | Press Release

ECLAC Strengthens its Cooperation with Brazil to Contribute to More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Development in the Country and Region
During his visit to Brasilia, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, signed agreements with BNDES and the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services, celebrated 53 years of cooperation with IPEA, and presented a document with recommendations for a national plan of electric buses, among other activities.
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19 November 2024 | Announcement

Jon Azúa, Prominent Spanish Academic Specialised in Clusters, will Give the XVIII Raúl Prebisch Lecture at ECLAC
The President and founder of Enovating Lab will speak at the United Nations organisation’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on 26 November.
14 November 2024 | Op-ed

Regional Poverty: Good News, Pending Tasks and the Role of Social Protection
By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
12 November 2024 | Press Release

ECLAC: The Regional Poverty Rate, which Rose with the Pandemic, Has Declined to a Level Similar to 2014 and in 2023 Reached the Lowest Figure on Record, but Income Inequality Remains High
Despite this progress, 172 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean still do not have enough income to meet their basic needs and 66 million of them cannot buy a basic food basket, according to the report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024: The challenges of non-contributory social protection in advancing towards inclusive social development.
8 November 2024 | Press Release

eLAC Begins a New Stage Centered on Concrete Actions and Projects, with the Approval of the Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean 2026
Today marked the conclusion in Santiago of the Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will now be called the Ministerial Conference on the Information Society and Digital Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, prioritizing concrete actions.
7 November 2024 | Press Release

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Advocated for Deepening Regional Cooperation on Digital Transformation through Concrete Actions and Projects
Today marked the inauguration of the Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held through Friday, November 8 at ECLAC’s headquarters in Chile.
6 November 2024 | Press Release

A Real and Effective Digital Transformation Can Help Latin America and the Caribbean Overcome the Traps Hindering its Development
ECLAC is presenting a new document with recommendations in the framework of the Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held this Thursday and Friday, November 7-8, in Chile.
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5 November 2024 | Announcement

ECLAC Will Release New Figures on Poverty, Inequality and Social Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, will give a press conference on Tuesday, November 12 from Santiago to unveil the Social Panorama 2024 report, which has non-contributory social protection as its main theme.
31 October 2024 | Press Release

Social Inequality is a Trap for Latin America and the Caribbean’s Development and Inhibits the Exercise of Rights
Authorities participated on Thursday in Barbados in the Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the framework of the XVI Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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