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26 June 2024 | Press Release

It is an Opportune Time for Mexico to Design a Productive Development Policy: ECLAC

To achieve sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, decisive action by the State is needed to conduct a productive development policy with the participation of the private sector and state governments.

7 June 2024 | Press Release

“No More Lost Decades for Latin America and the Caribbean”: ECLAC Lays Out its Proposal for Economic and Social Transformation

Because of his contributions to the region’s development, the organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, was awarded with the Maestro Ricardo Torres Gaitán 2024 Lecture from the Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Leonardo Lomelí.

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.

12 January 2022 | Press Release

Latin America and the Caribbean’s Growth Will Slow to 2.1% in 2022 amid Significant Asymmetries between Developed and Emerging Countries

In its annual report Preliminary Overview of the Economies 2021, ECLAC emphasizes that 2022 will be a year of major challenges for growth, job creation and tackling the pandemic’s social toll.

5 March 2019 | Press Release

ECLAC and Mexico City’s Government Sign Cooperation Agreement for Developing and Implementing Policies that Combat Inequality

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations organization, Alicia Bárcena, met with the Head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum.

23 August 2018 | Press Release

Latin America and the Caribbean Holds to a Path of Moderate Growth and its Economy Will Expand 1.5% in 2018, Despite External Uncertainties

ECLAC released today its Economic Survey 2018, in which it offers a profound analysis of the evolution of investment in the region.

3 August 2017 | Press Release

Latin America and the Caribbean Will Record a Positive, Though Still Low, Growth Rate in 2017

ECLAC holds its projection for average regional growth at 1.1% and stresses the importance of macroeconomic policies to regain economic dynamism.

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.

28 October 2016 | Press Release

Empowering the 40% of Young Latin Americans Not in Formal Jobs, Education or Training could Spark New Growth Engines

OECD, ECLAC and CAF launched the latest Latin American Economic Outlook report.

26 July 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC: Recovery of Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean Depends on Invigorating Public and Private Investment

The UN organization presented today its 2016 annual economic report, in which it forecasts that the region will contract -0.8% this year.

27 May 2016 | Press Release

Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Region Highlight Relevance of ECLAC’s Proposals at the End of its Biennial Meeting in Mexico

Authorities praised the proposals of the Commission’s document “Horizons 2030: Equality at the Centre of Sustainable Development,” and acclaimed the establishment of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development.

26 May 2016 | Press Release

A Renewed Equation between State, Market and Society is Needed to Build a New Development Pattern in the Region

Authorities and scholars highlighted ECLAC’s proposal contained in the document “Horizons 2030: Equality at the Centre of Sustainable Development,” which was presented today in Mexico by Alicia Bárcena, the organization’s Executive Secretary.

9 December 2014 | Press Release

Better Education and Skills Are Key to Shift the Economy Up a Gear

OECD, CAF and ECLAC launched today their joint publication Latin American Economic Outlook 2015.