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20 June 2024 | Press Release

Parliamentarians Analyze at ECLAC Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening and Consolidating Committees of the Future in Latin America
At the First Regional Conference of Parliamentary Committees of the Future, political representatives from various countries and experts from regional and international organizations shared experiences for increasing and improving capacities for legislative foresight and anticipatory governance.
9 April 2024 | Press Release

ECLAC and CAF Call for Scaling Up and Improving Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Only in this way will the region be able to escape the low-growth trap in which it is caught, authorities and experts affirmed at the joint Annual Conference held by both organizations in Santiago, Chile.
26 March 2024 | Press Release

Peru Will Be the Host of ECLAC’s Fortieth Session
The country’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Javier González-Olaechea Franco, and the United Nations regional economic commission’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, signed an agreement today in Lima establishing that this meeting will be held on October 8-11, 2024.
7 November 2023 | Press Release

At ECLAC, Paraguay’s President Calls for Dialogue among Latin American and Caribbean Countries to Offer a Continent of Peace in a World Plagued by Conflict
In the framework of his official visit to Chile, the Paraguayan leader gave a keynote lecture at the United Nations regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago.
9 March 2022 | Press Release

Eradicating Poverty in All its Forms is the Greatest Challenge Today and Constitutes an Indispensable Requirement for Sustainable Development
At the conclusion of the Fifth Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, representatives from the region committed to redoubling efforts to effectively implement the 2030 Agenda. Authorities and delegates also paid a heartfelt tribute to Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary.
18 March 2021 | Press Release

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Commit to Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Building Forward Better
At the conclusion of the fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries on Sustainable Development, government representatives reaffirmed the dire urgency of building fair, sustainable societies that would tackle inequality and guarantee citizenship and rights, and of acting together as a region to ensure access to vaccines for the entire population.
29 de October de 2016 | Press Release

CEPAL llama a potenciar a los jóvenes como actores estratégicos del desarrollo en XXV Cumbre Iberoamericana
Durante la reunión, la Secretaria Ejecutiva del organismo, Alicia Bárcena, sostuvo encuentros con autoridades de varios países y participó de diversos eventos.
26 September 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC Will Accompany Colombia in its Consolidation of Peace and its National Development Project
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated in Cartagena in the signing ceremony of the agreement that ended more than five decades of armed conflict.
9 October 2015 | Press Release

ECLAC Reaffirms the Importance of Investment to Recover Growth in the Region
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the organization, is participating in the 2015 Annual Meetings of the WBG and IMF, and as of today is part of the delegation of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during his visit to Peru.
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.
14 May 2015 | Press Release

Inclusive growth required to achieve sustainable development in Asia-Pacific, says UN
ESCAP’s flagship report introduces innovative inclusiveness index for region’s economies.
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.