Economic growth

Activities

19 - 23 May 2025 | 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.

26 - 27 March 2025 | Meetings and technical symposiums

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.

11 November 2024, 07:00 - 09:00 | Meetings and technical symposiums

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.

7 - 8 October 2024 | Meetings and technical symposiums

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

29 June 2025 | 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.

9 June 2025 | Press Release

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.  

28 May 2025 | Press Release

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.

29 April 2025 | Press Release

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.