COVID-19

COVID-19

The new global scenario in times of COVID-19 makes it necessary to take urgent measures and assess the impacts they will have. ECLAC has built this Observatory to support review and follow-up over the medium and long terms and at the request of CELAC. The Observatory tracks the public policies that the 33 countries of the Latin America and Caribbean region are implementing to limit the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers analyses of the economic and social impacts that these policies will have at the national and sectoral levels.

Activities

7 July 2022, 05:30 - 07:30 | Reuniones y seminarios técnicos

Transparencia presupuestaria para una recuperación sostenible post COVID: Desafíos para Chile y la Región

Organizadores: ILPES/CEPAL, Observatorio del Gasto Fiscal de Chile, Gobierno de la República de Corea e International Budget Partnership

28 - 30 June 2022 | Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies

Fourth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

La reunión tiene entre sus objetivos analizar los impactos sociodemográficos de la pandemia del COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe y los retos que plantea la crisis sanitaria para la implementación del Consenso de Montevideo sobre Población y Desarrollo.

News

23 August 2022 | Press Release

In 2022 the Region is Expected to Resume the Path of Low Growth Seen Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Growing 2.7% on Average

In a new edition of its flagship annual report “Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean,” the United Nations organization underlines the challenges of reactivating investment and growth in a context of growing external and domestic restrictions.

26 June 2022 | Press Release

ECLAC Analyzes the Pandemic’s Deep, Multiple Effects on the Region’s Population and Gives Recommendations for a Transformative Recovery with Equality

A new document by the UN regional commission will be presented to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean during the Fourth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, to be inaugurated on Tuesday, June 28.

17 June 2022 | Press Release

In a New Joint Report, ECLAC and the ILO Indicate that the Recovery in Employment has been Slow, Partial and Uneven

The United Nations organizations analyze the effects of and recovery from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the region’s labor markets in 2021, spotlighting the evolution of real wages.

6 June 2022 | Press Release

War in Ukraine Quickens Inflation, Reduces Growth and Increases Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

A new special report by ECLAC indicates that the economic deceleration, higher inflation and the slow and incomplete recovery of labor markets will increase poverty, extreme poverty and food insecurity in the region in 2022.