Today the United Nations Commission launched their annual report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2026.

The forty-first session of ECLAC ended today in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.

With the presence of the President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, authorities inaugurated the forty-first session of ECLAC today in Santiago de los Caballeros.

The document Managing Transformations in an Era of Ruptures will stimulate discussions during the forty-first session of the Commission, which will be inaugurated this Wednesday, 7 October in the Dominican Republic.

ECLAC’s Special Report No. 3 emphasizes the historic magnitude of the current phenomenon and urges governments to implement ten priority policy recommendations in energy, agriculture, and infrastructure.

The twenty-fifth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC began today in Santiago de Chile.

The Sixth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean concluded today in Montevideo. The session was organized by ECLAC in coordination with UNFPA.

The United Nations regional commission projects regional economic growth of 2.2% in 2026 and 2.5% in 2027 and advises that increasing productivity and growth is necessary for reducing informality through productive formalization strategies.

A new ECLAC document recommends leaving behind fragmented short-term responses and adopting policies that fit the new demographic reality facing the countries of the region.

Representatives from governments, regional and international organizations, academia, and civil society came together today to begin the Sixth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development.

A report prepared by a commission co-chaired by former Presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile and Iván Duque of Colombia upholds that the region possesses strategic assets to drive development, but that doing so will require clear strategies and effective governance.

In a new special report, ECLAC warns that the average price of oil this year will be higher than in 2025, which means that six channels of impact on the region remain in effect.

New report launched today by ECLAC offers numerous policy recommendations. The United Nations regional organization urges for taking a strategic approach to FDI, coordinating countries' efforts to attract these flows with productive development policies.

On Wednesday, June 17, 2026, in Mexico City, the Mexican Senate of the Republic held a Solemn Commemoration to celebrate the founding of ECLAC’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico.

Today marked the inauguration in Santiago, Chile of the United Nations regional organization’s Sixth Regional Seminar on Social Development, which is bringing authorities and specialists together through Thursday, June 18.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the European Patent Office and the Inter-American Development Bank kicked off a high-level regional conference in Santiago, Chile.

ECLAC’s 38th Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy brought together authorities from 11 countries to discuss strategies for stabilization and sustainable development.

Tax revenues rose in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2024, with the largest gains occurring in those that implemented major tax reforms, according to a new report.

The meeting of the Platform’s Council of Finance and Economy Ministers took place at the United Nations organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

The majority of the region’s economies will exhibit less economic dynamism in 2026 versus 2025.