Report of the twenty-ninth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

ECLAC Calls for Revitalizing the Multilateral Trading System and Putting it at the Service of Sustainable Development

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) called for revitalizing the multilateral trading system and putting it at the service of sustainable development, hand in hand with the 2030 Agenda, during the eleventh Ministerial Conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which is taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 10-13, 2017. Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary – who is heading the regional organization’s delegation and attending the gathering in representation of the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres – spoke this Monday at the e…

CEPAL llama a revitalizar el sistema multilateral de comercio y ponerlo al servicio del desarrollo sostenible

Un llamado a revitalizar el sistema multilateral de comercio y a ponerlo al servicio del desarrollo sostenible, de la mano de la Agenda 2030, hizo hoy la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) durante la undécima Conferencia Ministerial (CM11) de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), que se celebra en Buenos Aires, Argentina, entre el 10 y el 13 de diciembre de 2017. Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, quien encabeza la delegación del organismo regional y asiste al encuentro como representante del Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, António Guterr…

ECLAC: The Current Context is an Opportunity for Changing the Integration Paradigm of Latin America and the Caribbean

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, underscored the opportunity that the current context presents for strengthening regional integration and highlighted that this must be promoted in specific areas beyond trade, during the meeting of the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2017, which concluded this Friday in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the framework of this event, Bárcena was the main speaker on a panel about the regional integration strategy group, in which government authorities and private-sector representatives …

CEPAL: la coyuntura actual es una oportunidad para cambiar el paradigma de integración de América Latina y el Caribe

La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, subrayó la oportunidad que plantea el actual contexto actual para fortalecer la integración regional y destacó que ésta debe promoverse en áreas específicas más allá del comercio, durante la reunión del Foro Económico Mundial sobre América Latina 2017 que finalizó este viernes en Buenos Aires, Argentina. En el marco del evento, Bárcena fue la oradora principal de un panel sobre el grupo de estrategia regional sobre integración, en la cual participaron también autoridades de gobierno y repr…

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

CDCC (pre-CGCED) Consultative Meeting: New York, 19 June 1981

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…

XVII Reunión del Comité de Monitoreo del Comité de Desarrollo y Cooperación del Caribe