The Hummingbird Vol.4 No.12

DCF Argentina High-level Symposium on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Building Innovative and Inclusive Partnerships

Statement by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the opening of the DCF Argentina High-level Symposium on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Building Innovative and Inclusive Partnerships Buenos Aires 7 September 2017 Excellency, Gabriela Michetti, Vice-President of the Argentine Republic Excellency, Jorge Faurie, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Friends, It …

Simposio de Alto Nivel del Foro de Cooperación para el Desarrollo en Argentina

Palabras de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, en la inauguración del Simposio de Alto Nivel del Foro de Cooperación para el Desarrollo en Argentina Buenos Aires 7 de septiembre de 2017 Su Excelencia Gabriela MICHETTI, Vice Presidenta de la República Argentina Su Excelencia Jorge FAURIE, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto de la República Argentina LIU Zhenmin, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Amigas y amigos, Es un honor y un placer participar de la inauguración del Simposio de Alto Nivel sobre Cooperación Sur Sur y Triangu…

Alicia Bárcena: “Today more than ever, cooperation must be promoted and expanded on multilateral bases”

“Today more than ever, cooperation must be promoted and expanded on multilateral bases if we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030,” said the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, this Thursday in Buenos Aires while participating in a meeting organized by the Argentine government and the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The DCF Argentina High-level Symposium on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda: Building Innovative and Inclusive Partnerships wa…

Alicia Bárcena: “Hoy más que nunca la cooperación debe ser promovida y ampliada sobre bases multilaterales”

“Hoy más que nunca la cooperación debe ser promovida y ampliada sobre bases multilaterales si queremos alcanzar en 2030 los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS)”, dijo este jueves en Buenos Aires la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, quien participó en un encuentro organizado por el Gobierno de Argentina y el Consejo Económico y Social de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ECOSOC, por sus siglas en inglés). El Simposio de Alto Nivel del Foro sobre Cooperación para el Desarrollo en Argentina. Cooperación Sur-Sur y Tria…

Report of the eighteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Prospects for blockchain-based settlement frameworks as a resolution to the threat of de-risking to Caribbean financial systems

Caribbean countries have been seriously impacted by the trend toward “de-risking” in the global financial system, and this is damaging to their economic security and the ability of Caribbean businesses to innovate. De-risking is the name given to the tendency of banking institutions to turn away from working relationships and lines of business for which the cost of regulatory compliance—and the risk of non-compliance— is deemed to be too high in comparison to the returns. This is a phenomenon that is affecting developing economies around the world, but the small and vulnerable economies of the…

Exploring financial technology