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21 de February de 2024 | Press Release

Ministerios de Educación de América Latina y el Caribe se comprometen a aumentar los esfuerzos para reactivar, recuperar y transformar los sistemas educativos
Las autoridades, reunidas en Chile en la Ministerial de Educación Santiago 2024 a fines de enero, acordaron trabajar para recuperar lo perdido durante la pandemia y transformar los sistemas educativos. Subrayaron la importancia de un financiamiento sostenible, políticas innovadoras y estrategias inclusivas y resilientes para pasar del compromiso a la acción.
25 January 2024 | Press Release

The “Ministerial Meeting of Education” Begins in Santiago, With an Urgent Call to Recover and Reactivate the Educational Systems of Latin America and the Caribbean
The meeting, organized by the Ministry of Education of Chile (MINEDUC) and UNESCO, with the support of ECLAC, CAF, UNICEF and the World Bank, addresses the challenge of educational reactivation, the transformation of teaching, and financing. To overcome these challenges, it is necessary to have public policies to guarantee the right to education for 125 million students in the region.
23 November 2023 | Press Release

Poverty in Latin America Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022, ECLAC Reports with an Urgent Call for Progress on Labour Inclusion
Despite this improvement in the indicators, more than 180 million people in the region do not have enough income to meet their basic needs and 70 million of them lack the income needed to acquire a basic food basket, the Commission warns in its report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023.
24 November 2022 | Press Release

Poverty Rates in Latin America Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022, ECLAC Warns
The Social Panorama 2022 report projects that 201 million people (32.1% of the region’s total population) live in situations of poverty, with 82 million (13.1%) of them in extreme poverty. The regional organization calls for urgently addressing the silent crisis in education to avert the risk of a lost generation.
30 August 2022 | Press Release

Making Progress on Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean is More Urgent than Ever
Government authorities, international officials and specialists participated in the opening session of the Second Regional Seminar on Social Development, organized virtually by ECLAC in collaboration with various institutions.
4 March 2021 | Press Release

Pandemic Prompts Rise in Poverty to Levels Unprecedented in Recent Decades and Sharply Affects Inequality and Employment
In a new annual report, ECLAC estimates that the total number of poor people rose to 209 million by the end of 2020, which is 22 million more people than in the previous year. In addition, it calls for creating a new welfare state.
30 July 2020 | Press Release

ECLAC and PAHO: Controlling the pandemic requires convergence and coordination between health, economic, social and productive policies

New joint report states that economic recovery will only be possible by flattening the curve of contagion. It proposes three phases to control the pandemic, reactivate the economy with protection, and rebuild in an inclusive and sustainable way.
12 May 2020 | Press Release

ECLAC Proposes Moving Towards a Basic Income to Help the Most Vulnerable Population Overcome the Coronavirus’s Effects
The organization presented a new report on the social challenges of the crisis stemming from COVID-19. In a context of low growth, a significant increase in poverty, extreme poverty and inequality is foreseen in Latin America and the Caribbean.
28 November 2019 | Press Release

ECLAC: The Region Has Underestimated Inequality
The economic commission noted that the upward trend for poverty in Latin America held firm and called for resuming the construction of comprehensive and universal social compacts, during the launch of its Social Panorama 2019 report today in 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.
30 May 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC: High Levels of Inequality in Latin America Constitute an Obstacle to Sustainable Development
This is a structural phenomenon that manifests itself via multiple vicious circuits, according to the Social Panorama 2016 annual report released today.