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18 April 2024 | Press Release

Eradicating Poverty and Hunger is an Indispensable Requirement for Achieving Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Authorities and delegates from the region’s countries concluded the seventh meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development with a firm commitment to accelerate the pace for achieving the goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
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.
19 January 2023 | Press Release

Countries Recognize 60 Years of ILPES Contribution to Strengthening Capacities in National Planning and Public Management Systems

Authorities from the region held the Nineteenth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Council for Planning of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute of Economic and Social Planning.
15 October 2020 | Press Release

ECLAC Proposes Political and Social Compacts with Broad Participation, More Symmetry between Actors and Transformative Leaderships amid COVID-19 for a Recovery with Equality and Sustainability in the Region
The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, presented today the eighth special report produced by the institution in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, during a web seminar that featured the intervention of prominent figures from Latin America and the Caribbean..
18 June 2020 | Press Release

To Confront the Climate Change Emergency and Rethink the Post-COVID Recovery, We Must Urgently Move Towards a New, More Sustainable and Egalitarian Development Pattern
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, presented a new book today that exhaustively reviews the effects of climate change in the region and the policies addressing it.
27 June 2019 | Press Release

Broadening Fiscal Space is Vital to Financing Development and the 2030 Agenda: ECLAC

The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, reiterated the importance of reducing the high level of tax evasion and illicit financial flows, upon presenting the “Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2019” in Washington.
6 May 2018 | Press Release

Inequality is Inefficient, Since it Constitutes an Impediment to Growth, Development and Sustainability
In the framework of its 37th session to be held in Cuba, ECLAC will present a new institutional document with its development proposal for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
20 April 2018 | Press Release

Countries of the Region Encourage All Sectors of Society to Double Efforts to Achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The second meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development came to a close in Santiago, Chile with the renewed commitment by nations to advance toward meeting the Agenda’s goals.
20 April 2018 | Press Release

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Commit to Spearheading the Digital Ecosystem, E-Commerce, Access to Public Information and Protection of Privacy
With the Cartagena Declaration, approved at the end of the Sixth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, the region agrees to the 2020 Digital Agenda to achieve sustainable development with equality.
18 April 2018 | Press Release

Twenty Three Latin American and Caribbean Countries Meet in Colombia to Define the Region’s New Digital Agenda and Move Toward a More Sustainable Economic, Social and Environmental Model
Sixth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society was inaugurated today in the city of Cartagena.
26 March 2018 | Press Release

Fiscal Policy is a Fundamental Instrument for Achieving the 2030 Agenda and Inclusive, More Equitable Growth

Authorities from various countries and international experts meet at ECLAC for the 30th Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy.
4 March 2018 | Press Release

Latin America and the Caribbean Adopts Its First Binding Regional Agreement to Protect Rights of Access in Environmental Matters
Delegates from the countries attending the ninth meeting of the Negotiating Committee on Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration approved the final text in Costa Rica.
2 May 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary is Awarded the “Gustavo Martínez Cabañas” Medal for International Administrative Merit

Alicia Bárcena received this important distinction from Mexico’s National Institute of Public Administration for her contribution “to strengthening the country’s prestige abroad.”
28 de September de 2016 | Press Release

Pactos fiscales y acuerdos tributarios son fundamentales para fomentar el crecimiento y la igualdad en la región

Nuevo libro de CEPAL/BID analiza la sostenibilidad fiscal y las reformas tributarias recientes realizadas en varios países de América Latina.
24 September 2014 | Press Release

Foresight Provides the Long-Term Vision Needed to Create Public Policies
The United Nations organization hosts a seminar that brings together specialists in global trends from the United States, Europe, China and the Republic of Korea.