Economic growth

Activities

9 Dec 2025, 09:00 - 14:00 | Monitoring committee

Twenty-second meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

CDCC member countries and associate members will convene for the twenty-second meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee.

8 Dec 2025, 08:00 - 17:00 | Meetings and technical symposiums

The MonCom Seminar: Unlocking Caribbean potential: enhancing growth and development through South-South cooperation

CDCC member countries and associate members will convene for the twenty-second meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee. This is preceded by the MonCom Seminar. This year's theme Unlocking Caribbean potential: enhancing growth and development through South-South cooperation.

26 - 30 May 2025, 09:00 - 12:00 | Meetings and technical symposiums

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Antigua and Barbuda

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.

19 - 23 May 2025, 09:01 - 12:00 | Meetings and technical symposiums

Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Grenada

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.

News

7 Nov 2025 | Press Release

The OECD, European Commission, CAF and ECLAC Advocate for a New Vision for Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

In a document that will be presented on Monday, November 10 at the Business Forum of the CELAC-EU Summit in Santa Marta, Colombia, the entities pose the need to scale up and improve these policies to foster a productive transformation that would allow the region to jump-start its productivity.

28 Oct 2025 | Press Release

ECLAC’s Member Countries Agree to Strengthen Multilateralism and Recognize the Vital Role of the United Nations Regional Commissions for Implementing the 2030 Agenda

Today the thirty-eighth session of the Committee of the Whole was held in New York, where the Commission’s activities in 2024 were reported upon and its programme of work for 2027 was approved. The meeting was led by the institution’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.

23 Oct 2025 | Press Release

ECLAC Updates Growth Projections for Latin America and the Caribbean: An Expansion of 2.4% is Expected in 2025 and 2.3% in 2026

The region continues to be mired in a trap of low capacity for growth, with average rates of around 2%, with scant investment, low productivity, sluggish labor markets and high inequality levels.

9 Oct 2025 | Press Release

ECLAC: Latin America and the Caribbean Will Only Be Able to Overcome the Trap of Low Capacity for Growth by Embracing a New Vision of Productive Development Policies

Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs presented the annual report “Panorama of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025” today in Mexico City.