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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.
15 January 2019 | Press Release

Poverty in Latin America Remained Steady in 2017, but Extreme Poverty Increased to the Highest Level since 2008, while Inequality has Fallen Notably since 2000
ECLAC released its report Social Panorama 2018 today in Chile, including new revisions to the methodology used by the organization to estimate monetary poverty in the region, as well as new measurements on functional inequality, social spending and double labor and social inclusion.
3 de October de 2018 | Press Release

Países de América Latina y el Caribe evalúan en CEPAL conjunto de indicadores priorizados para el seguimiento regional de los ODS
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas, y Guillermo Pattillo, Director del Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) de Chile, inauguraron la XVII Reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas (CEA), que se celebra hasta el jueves en Santiago, Chile.
3 October 2018 | Press Release

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Evaluate at ECLAC the Set of Indicators Prioritized for Regional Follow-up to SDGs
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the UN regional organization, and Guillermo Pattillo, Director of the National Statistical Institute of Chile, inaugurated the Seventeenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, which is being held through Thursday in Santiago, Chile.
20 December 2017 | Press Release

Poverty Increased in 2016 in Latin America and Reached 30.7% of the Population, a Percentage Seen Holding Steady in 2017
In Mexico today ECLAC launched its report Social Panorama 2017, which includes an update to the methodology used to estimate monetary poverty in the region.
14 September 2016 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena: The Region Must Respond to the Challenge of Sustainable Growth with a Big Environmental Push

In the framework of the inauguration of the Latin American Conference on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary called on the region to plan investment and spending with sustainability.
25 May 2016 | Press Release

Argentine Foreign Minister and ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Highlight Region’s Potential for Applying the 2030 Agenda
Authorities and senior officials also stressed the importance of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which will be approved during ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, currently being held in Mexico.
1 April 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC’S Executive Secretary Reiterates the Organization’s Technical Support to the Work of CELAC
At a meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers, Alicia Bárcena presented an economic and social overview of the region and its prospects in light of the 2030 Agenda. She emphasized the need to give the economy a big environmental push with new technology and investment paradigms, within a horizon of equality and sustainability.
30 March 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC Supports Region’s Countries in the Definition of the 2030 Agenda’s Indicators
The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, inaugurated in Mexico the third meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group, which is in charge of proposing a framework of reference for measuring progress on compliance with the SDGs.
22 March 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC Calls for Protecting Progress and Preventing Social Rollbacks in Light of Potential Increase in Regional Poverty
According to projections by the United Nations regional organization, 175 million people were living in situations of poverty in late 2015 in Latin America.
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.
26 January 2015 | Press Release

Poverty and Indigence Reduction Stalls in Most of Latin American Countries
Estimates show that 167 million people were poor in 2014, and 71 million of them suffered extreme poverty or indigence.