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Imagen de un dedo pulsando teclas de computador
22 June 2015 | News

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Define in Mexico a New Digital Agenda With a View to 2018
The Fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held on August 5-7 in Mexico City.
Portada de libro de la CEPAL sobre neoestructuralismo.
22 June 2015 | News

ECLAC Explains in a Book the Validity of Neo-Structuralism to Generate New Policies
The publication, which brings together 15 essays, was edited by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado.
19 June 2015 | Press Release

ECLAC Supports Fiscal Reform in Costa Rica to Maintain the Progress Made
The Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, met with the country’s Vice President, Helio Fallas, and visited the Central American Bank for Economic Integration and the University for Peace.
18 June 2015 | News

New series of disaster assessment training sessions set to kick-off in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is the first of seven Caribbean countries to receive training on Post Disaster Needs Assessment from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean.
18 June 2015 | Infographic

Energy efficiency in the transport sector in Grenada, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines currently use over 66% of their total energy consumption on transport, meanwhile Grenada and Saint Lucia both use over 50%.
17 June 2015 | News

ECLAC identifies Caribbean priorities for inclusion in eLAC Digital Agenda 2018
The Caribbean needs to provide affordable and wider access to digital services, while taking advantage of the opportunities created by technological convergence and mobile technologies.
17 June 2015 | Statement

World Day to Combat Desertification
"In 10 years, two out of every three people in the world could be living under stressed water conditions", UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns.
16 June 2015 | News

ECLAC helps Peruvian officials better respond to disasters
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional office for the Caribbean is strengthening the capacity of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters
12 June 2015 | Op-ed

Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean: Reinforcing Convergences
Op-ed by ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena (June 2015).
11 June 2015 | Press Release

Container Trade in the Region’s Ports Rises 1.3% in 2014
ECLAC’s updated ranking confirms the slowdown in foreign trade shown by the container terminals of Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years.
10 June 2015 | Infographic

Ageing in the Caribbean
Over the next twenty years, the Caribbean* will see a rapid and dramatic ageing of its population. With such a rapid increase in the number of older persons on the horizon, there is an urgent need for governments to strengthen social protection against a wide range of risks that older people face. * -Here the Caribbean refers to Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica; Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Sant Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands.
10 June 2015 | Press Release

In Brussels, ECLAC Highlights Spaces for Convergence and Cooperation between the European Union and the Region
Alicia Bárcena met with the head of European diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, and spoke at the academic and business meetings carried out in the framework of the second EU-CELAC summit, which concludes tomorrow in Belgium’s capital.
ECLAC Caribbean at World Environment Day 2015
5 June 2015 | News

ECLAC staff and local communities join forces on World Environment Day 2015
ECLAC Caribbean staff worked side by side with communities in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to protect and preserve the local environmental heritage, in a special commemoration of the United Nations World Environment Day 2015.
5 June 2015 | Statement

World Environment Day
"Many of the Earth’s ecosystems are nearing critical tipping points. It is time for us to change", United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his message.
2 June 2015 | Infographic

Young People in Latin America and the Caribbean Who Don’t Study or Work
There is growing concern over young people in the region who remain excluded from two fundamental institutions for social inclusion: education and employment, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) warns.
29 May 2015 | Press Release

International Context Imposes New Challenges on Relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean
ECLAC will contribute a new document to the next EU-CELAC summit, which will be held in Brussels on June 10-11.
28 May 2015 | Press Release

Statistics Organizations from the Region Advance on Preparations for the New Development Agenda
ECLAC hosted the Fourteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas on May 26-28.
Flagship report “Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean”
27 May 2015 | News

ECLAC Study on Foreign Direct Investment puts focus on the Caribbean
The Caribbean receives higher amounts of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) when compared to other developing economies, according to a newly published report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
27 May 2015 | Press Release

The Caribbean Received $6.027 Billion Dollars in Foreign Direct Investment in 2014, Down Nearly 5% from 2013
In its latest annual report, ECLAC proposes that Caribbean countries revise the utility of the incentives used to attract FDI and advance towards a coordinated policy of promotion on a subregional level.
27 May 2015 | Press Release

Foreign Direct Investment in the Region Fell 16% in 2014 after a Decade of Strong Expansion
According to ECLAC, rather than trying to recover the FDI amounts seen in recent years, Latin American and Caribbean countries should focus on attracting those flows that will contribute to the diversification of production.

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