The seventh meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development will be held in Santiago, from 15 to 18 April 2024.…
La Séptima Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible se llevará a cabo en Santiago, del 15 al 18 de abril de 2024.…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…
Los días 3 y 4 de septiembre de 2025 se realizará en Asunción (Paraguay) la decimocuarta versión de las Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Financiación Local (XIV-JIFL) organizadas por la Asociación Iberoamericana de Financiación Local (AIFIL), la Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL), la División de Gestión Fiscal del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas de Paraguay y la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA).…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) celebró el Taller técnico regional sobre gastos tributarios los días 16 y 17 de octubre de 2024 en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago de Chile. Este taller contó con el apoyo de la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), y con el apoyo financiero del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo (BMZ) de Alemania.…
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.…
Building upon the experience of recently graduated Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean, this side event contributes to the global debate on measuring development and its impact on international cooperation, promoting a more inclusive and sustainable vision that better reflects the needs of developing countries. The objective of the event is to analyze the challenges posed by traditional metrics, as well as to explore possible alternatives for a more adequate measurement of development.…
Building upon the experience of recently graduated Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean, this side event contributes to the global debate on measuring development and its impact on international cooperation, promoting a more inclusive and sustainable vision that better reflects the needs of developing countries. The objective of the event is to analyze the challenges posed by traditional metrics, as well as to explore possible alternatives for a more adequate measurement of development.…
The XXXVII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy is organized by the Executive Secretary of theEconomic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) through the EconomicDevelopment Division. It is sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International DevelopmentCooperation (AECID) and supported by the IDB Group, the Organization for Economic Cooperationand Development (OECD), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).…
El XXXVII Seminario Regional de Política Fiscal es organizado por la Secretaría Ejecutiva de laComisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), a través de la División de DesarrolloEconómico. Cuenta con el auspicio de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para elDesarrollo (AECID) y con el apoyo del Grupo BID, la Organización para la Cooperación y elDesarrollo Económicos (OCDE), el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI).…
Guided by an enhanced framework, UNCTAD led data collection field missions, identifying their current and potential external financial options, blockages and impediments to the uptake of innovative financial instruments, as well as the regulatory, institutional, and market-related changes required to encourage these innovations. These efforts culminated in the delivery of climate adaptation and mitigation reports for each country, assessing direct and indirect climate risks and proposing strategies to address these risks and achieve SDGs 17.4 and 13.b and will contribute to the regional d…