In a context of multiple global crises, foreign ministers and senior authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean and other member countries of ECLAC ratified today their commitment to multilateralism, regional cooperation and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and they reiterated the urgent need to reform the multilateral system and the international financial architecture so that this eminently middle-income region can access adequate financing for moving towards more productive, inclusive and sustainable development.
The Dialogue of Ministers of Foreign Affa…
En un contexto de múltiples crisis globales, Cancilleres y altas autoridades de América Latina y el Caribe y otros países miembros de la CEPAL ratificaron hoy su compromiso con el multilateralismo, la cooperación regional y la implementación de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, y reiteraron la urgente necesidad de reformar el sistema multilateral y la arquitectura financiera internacional para que la región -eminentemente de renta media- pueda acceder a financiamiento adecuado para avanzar hacia un desarrollo más productivo, inclusivo y sostenible.
El Diálogo de cancilleres y altas…
Presentation by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary (PDF).
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, participated today in a high-level dialogue between the United Nations Regional Commissions and the Second Committee (on economic and financial matters) of the global organization’s General Assembly, where she flagged the growing global asymmetries between developed countries and developing nations, above all in terms of access to vaccines and financing, as well as concentration of wealth, income and technolog…
Presentación de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL (PDF en inglés).
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, participó hoy en un diálogo de alto nivel de las Comisiones Regionales de las Naciones Unidas con el Segundo Comité (sobre temas económicos y financieros) de la Asamblea General del organismo mundial, en donde advirtió sobre las crecientes asimetrías globales entre los países desarrollados y las naciones en desarrollo, sobre todo en materia de acceso a vacunas y financiamiento, así como en concentración de ri…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, reaffirmed today that developing countries and especially middle-income countries (which comprise the majority of the region’s nations) need a liquidity boost and to participate actively in debt relief initiatives.
“The developed world is investing to achieve the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a green recovery, but developing countries are being left behind,” the Commission’s highest authority warned during a session entitled Investing in the SDGs, held in the…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, reafirmó hoy que los países en desarrollo y especialmente los países de ingreso medio (que incluyen a la mayoría de la región) necesitan un impulso de liquidez y participar activamente en las iniciativas de alivio de la deuda.
“El mundo desarrollado está invirtiendo para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 y para una recuperación verde, pero los países en desarrollo se están quedando atrás”, advirtió la máxima autoridad de la Comisión durante la sesión t…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) raised its average growth estimate for the region in 2021 to 5.2%, a figure that reflects a rebound from the deep contraction of 6.8% registered in 2020 as a consequence of the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This expansion, however, will not manage to ensure sustained growth, because the social impacts of the crisis and the structural problems in the region have deepened and will continue to do so during the recovery, according to the UN organization in a new special report presented today.
The document entitled The…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) elevó su estimación de crecimiento promedio para la región en 2021 a 5,2%, cifra que denota un rebote desde la profunda contracción de 6,8% anotada en 2020 como consecuencia de los efectos adversos producidos por la pandemia de COVID-19. Esta expansión no alcanzará para asegurar un crecimiento sostenido ya que los impactos sociales de la crisis y los problemas estructurales de la región se han agudizado y se prolongarán durante la etapa de recuperación, advirtió el organismo de las Naciones Unidas en un nuevo informe especial dado a…
A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) elevou sua estimativa de crescimento médio para a região em 2021 para 5,2%, valor que denota uma recuperação da profunda contração de 6,8% registrada em 2020 como consequência dos efeitos adversos produzidos pela pandemia da COVID-19. Essa expansão não conseguirá assegurar um crescimento sustentado, já que os impactos sociais da crise e os problemas estruturais da região se agravaram e se prolongarão durante a fase de recuperação, alertou a Comissão Regional da Nações Unidas em um novo relatório especial divulgado hoje.
O documento …
Monetary regimes and labour institutions: an alternative interpretation of the downward trend in exchange-rate pass-through in peripheral countries / Martín Cherkasky and Martín Abeles . -- Models of the developmental state / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira .-- The development of venture capital in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative perspective / Ernesto H. Stein and Rodrigo A. Wagner .-- The heterogeneity of effects of preschool education on cognitive outcomes in Latin America / Juan Antonio Dip and Luis Fernando Gamboa .-- Economic growth and financial development in Brazil: a flexib…
Welcome Remarks
Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado
18th Monitoring Committee of the CDCC
Port of Spain, 19 May 2017
His Excellency, Mark Brantley, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation of Saint Kitts and Nevis and Chair of the CDCC,
Honourable Ministers and other Distinguished Representatives of CDCC Member Countries,
Representatives of regional and international organizations,
Members of the diplomatic corps,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to be here with you once again in beautiful Port of Spain. I bring to you the warm greetings of our Executive Secretary Ali…
Evolving Development thinking and practices in
Latin America and the Caribbean: The role of ECLAC
Keynote Address by Dr Antonio Prado
Deputy Executive Secretary
18th CDCC Monitoring Committee
Port of Spain, 19 May 2017
I thank Diane for that very fitting introduction to my presentation here this morning. We have begun considering how best to commemorate 70 years of ECLAC’s work as a Regional Commission of the United Nations. As you have just seen, our support for development in the region has taken many different forms. However it is safe to say that our principal contri…
La situación global surgida después de la última gran crisis internacional ha llevado a la acuciante necesidad de replantear la forma cómo se toman las decisiones económicas, sociales y ambientales que afectan a toda la humanidad. El multilateralismo ha resurgido con fuerza y los países emergentes reclaman una mayor presencia en el debate internacional. Este apunta a la gestación de una nueva forma de gobernanza global y al diseño de nuevos mecanismos de cooperación con los países en desarrollo.
La gobernanza global en el siglo XXI tiene por objeto velar por la provisión de los bienes públicos…
Development banking in the region has made efforts to facilitate the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), given that most of their financing programs include these companies among their targets (92 %), establish flexible terms (36 %) and demand guarantees or endorsements adjusted to their possibilities, according to a report recently published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
The figures of the study Financing of International Trade and the Role of Development Banking in Latin America and the Caribbean (available on…
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