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Economic growth
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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.
Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2025 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum
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, thereby leaving a legacy for future youth generations.
Virtual Expert Group Meeting on Human Capital Formation in the Caribbean
Labour productivity has been on a declining trend in the Caribbean. An examination of this trend revealed a growing concern of skills mismatch in the labour market. At the same time, youth unemployment is high in many countries, with young women and girls twice as likely not to be in education, employment or training. These are troubling signs for human capital formation at a time when Caribbean economies are experiencing low growth, and the global economy is becoming increasingly knowledge based.
An Introduction To CGE Modeling focus upon trade and tax policy
An Introduction to CGE Modeling is designed to introduce fundamental concepts and practices of tax and trade policy assessment. The primary tool used is Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling. The workshop will be a brief introduction to the practice of economic impact analysis, and a presentation of how CGE models are used to provide evidence-based analysis for Caribbean countries. The presentations will explain standard economic theory behind general equilibrium and will provide examples of CGE applications for tax policy and international trade analysis.
News
ECLAC Will Promote Latin America and the Caribbean’s Voice and Commitment at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development
The United Nations regional organization will participate actively in the global conference, where it will emphasize the financing challenges faced by the region and the urgent need to strengthen international cooperation.
Maria da Conceição Tavares School of Government and Development is Inaugurated with a Call to More Effectively Manage the Vital Transformations Needed to Move Towards a More Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Development Model
This training program pays tribute to the legacy of one of Latin America’s most important female economists and marks a milestone in historical cooperation between the BNDES and ECLAC.
Fiscal Policy is a Key Tool for Driving the Structural Transformations Needed in Latin America and the Caribbean
At the XXXVII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, authorities from 13 countries and international experts addressed the importance of mobilizing financing to expand fiscal space in the region’s countries.
ECLAC Downwardly Revises Growth Projections for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2025
Today the United Nations regional organization updated its GDP estimates for each of the region’s countries.
