Financing and external debt
Activities
Seventh meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable
Seventh meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable - The Caribbean: Recovery and Repositioning in the context of COVID-19 and beyond The Caribbean Development Roundtable will bring together regional and international development thinkers and practitioners, leaders and senior policymakers from ECLAC member States and associate member countries, representatives of the UN System, regional and international financial institutions, academia, and civil society, including the private sector, as well as other development partners. All are invited to contribute to the discussions. (Meeting documents can be found below)
Sixth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable
This year the Caribbean Development Roundtable (CDR) takes stock of the progress so far made in persuading the international community to extend the financial support needed by Member States.
Twenty-eighth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee
Pursuant to resolution 358(XVI) of 1975, the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) was created as a permanent subsidiary body of the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean to promote development cooperation among Caribbean countries.
Fourth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable
This year’s Roundtable will explore possible options for debt relief for heavily indebted countries in the subregion.
News
Capital Flows to Latin America and the Caribbean in five charts: first nine months of 2025
Latin America and the Caribbean set a new annual record for international bond issuance in just nine months of 2025.
United States economic outlook: evolving trends in the ownership of United States federal debt
This special issue of the United States economic outlook examines the trends in the ownership composition of United States federal debt holders
Latin America and the Caribbean Endures a Prolonged Period of Low Growth: It Will Grow 2.2% in 2025 and 2.3% in 2026
Today ECLAC presented a new edition of its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025, in which it stresses the region’s urgent need to mobilize more resources to overcome the development traps that characterize it.
Faced with Financing for Development Challenges, Latin American and Caribbean Countries Need to Strengthen their Capacities to Mobilize Resources and Forge Renewed Cooperation Mechanisms
ECLAC’s delegation, led by Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, actively participated in numerous events at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, which took place this week in Seville, Spain.