At the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), authorities and experts discussed the options for implementing active fiscal policies and countercyclical arrangements in the region to protect public investment, social progress and boost growth – particularly at a time of global uncertainty and a slowdown of growth and trade.
Finance Ministers, fiscal policymakers, officials from international agencies and academics from several countries are attending the XXVIII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, which has been organized in Santiago, Chile, by ECLAC with the support of …
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold its most important biennial meeting in Mexico City from May 23 to May 27, 2016, where officials will present to its 45 member and 13 associate countries a report on recent activities and will offer governments a reflection upon development strategies in the context of the commitments contained in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Mexico’s Foreign Minister, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, and ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, signed the agreement on 12 February through which Mexico becomes the ve…
On the occasion of a course on sustainable logistics, mobility and energy efficiency carried out by ECLAC’s Division of Natural Resources and Infrastructure in late January 2016, officials from that division visited the rebuilding works of the container terminal at Port-au- Prince’s International Port, in Haiti, which suffered severe damage during the earthquake of 2010.
Accompanied by representatives of that country’s National Port Authority (NPA), the experts viewed the first 150 linear meters (of 410 meters total) of the terminal’s Northern Wharf, inaugurated on January 22, 2016. This is th…
The United Nations regional commissions constitute an optimal mechanism for offering countries timely and effective advice on policies for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and on tools to facilitate its follow-up, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said in New York.
The senior international official participated on behalf of the five regional commissions of the United Nations (UN) in a discussion panel focused on strengthening institutional collaboration at the national, subregional and regiona…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, was received on Friday, January 15, by Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, who took office this week and with whom she spoke about the challenges facing the Central American country in terms of maintaining current growth, of about 4%, and achieving greater levels of equality and social inclusion.
On Thursday, January 14, the most senior official from this United Nations regional organization—accompanied by the Director of ECLAC’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico, Hugo Beteta—was pr…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will participate in diverse initiatives to promote sustainable and inclusive growth and the financing of actions aimed at combating global warming in the context of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is taking place from November 30 to December 11 in Paris, France.
On Saturday, December 5, at 6:30 p.m. local time, ECLAC will participate in the European Pavilion, located at the COP21’s official venue, during the launch of the new cooperation program of …
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, defended today the role of planning in changing economic and social structures and successfully implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She spoke at the inauguration of the XIV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean in Yachay (Ecuador), where she was joined by Ecuador’s National Secretary for Planning and Development, Sandra Naranjo.
“We need you to help us imagine 2030,” said the senior United Nations official before repres…
The structural gaps that persist in the region have hampered dynamic and sustained economic growth and greater social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said during a keynote lecture in Mexico City on Thursday, 12 November.
The senior United Nations official gave a lecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) entitled “Circumstances and Structures. Decolonizing the development agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In it, she presented the foundations …
The region of Latin America and the Caribbean must decidedly make progress on economic integration and move towards an integrated space with common rules for trade and investment, Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during a high-level conference held in Santiago, Chile.
The senior United Nations official was the keynote speaker during the first day of the 5th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Initiative for Policy Dialogue on Global Value Chains, Production Transformation and Development—a gathering organized by …
On 25 September, in New York, the Member States of the United Nations (UN) will officially adopt the 2030 Transformative Agenda for Sustainable Development, which constitutes a milestone in the global process to build more egalitarian societies capable of living in harmony with the environment.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) included in this agenda will replace the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that guided countries’ efforts during the last 15 years. The difference between these agendas is relevant for Latin America and the Caribbean: the new roadmap addresses numerous…
During a forum of women leaders convened by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, called on the Group of Seven (G7) to use a collective approach to address the matter of international cooperation in order to resolve global problems, including the migratory crisis.
Bárcena spoke in the name of a region that is considered to be middle income and no longer qualifies to receive Official Development Assistance (ODA). “We have to think about what kind of cooperation we want to establish,” the i…
Authorities in the region, scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), international officials and business leaders will meet on August 18-19 at the seminar The Future of Energy: Latin America’s Path to Sustainability, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the MIT Sloan School of Management.
The event, which will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, is being carried out in the framework of the UN Secretary-General’s initiative “Sustainable Energy for ALL” (SE4ALL), which aims to ensure universal access to sustaina…
Ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, along with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, agreed today during an event held in Addis Ababa on the need for global collective action to finance sustainable and inclusive development, within a framework such as that of the United Nations, where all voices may be heard.
This debate, dedicated to analyzing the domestic mobilization of resources and international financial governance from the perspecti…
The visit that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang begins this week to Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru marks a new milestone in the deepening of economic, political and cooperation ties between Latin America and the Caribbean and China.
Premier Li’s visit and the speech he will give to the region from ECLAC’s headquarters on May 25th are part of China’s sustained effort to forge a joint path since that country recognized in 2008 the strategic nature of relations with our region in its White Paper (the formal document where it states official policy in that regard).
These bilateral economic relations f…
Li Keqiang, the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, will give a keynote lecture on Monday, May 25, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he will be received by the Executive Secretary of the regional United Nations organization, Alicia Bárcena.
The event will be held at 3:45 p.m., local time in Chile, in the Raúl Prebisch conference room. It will also be broadcast live on the Internet via ECLAC’s website: ://www.cepal.org/es/cepal-en-vivo
The senior official will visit Chile during a tour…
Senior officials from Latin American and Caribbean countries began participating today in a meeting in Santiago, Chile to exchange positions about the content of an accord to combat climate change that is expected to be approved during the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), which will be held in Paris next December.
The inauguration of the meeting was presided by Chile’s Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Edgardo Riveros; the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA…
This document was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the official visit of Geung-hye Park, President of the Republic of Korea, to several countries in the region.
The Republic of Korea’s success in economic and social development offers many lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean and the developing world as a whole. From being one of the poorest countries in the world in the early 1960s, in six short decades the Republic of Korea has succeeded in transforming itself into a high-income economy, a major manufacturing, scientific and export po…
Public policies geared toward equality in the labor market, education and social protection, among other areas, will be examined by government officials and academics during a seminar to be held on Monday, March 30 and Tuesday 31, 2015 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The high-level seminar “Paths Toward Equality and Development: Latin America-Norway Dialogue” is organized by ECLAC and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be opened on March 30, at 0900 a.m. by Hege Araldsen, Norwegian Ambassador to Chil…
Brazil’s government and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed their willingness to cooperate on various matters related to social and economic development during a series of meetings held on March 4-5 between a high-level delegation from the regional United Nations organization and Brazilian ministers and other authorities.
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, headed the official mission to Brazil, the first since President Dilma Rousseff began her second term on January 1, with the aim of reinforcing the organization’s disposition to work joint…
Latin American and Caribbean countries must take a leap towards greater and better governance of natural resources to be able to lay the foundations for a process of sustainable development with equality, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stressed today during a keynote lecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
The senior United Nations official was welcomed by Mireya Ímaz, Coordinator of UNAM’s Environmental University Program (PUMA), at the closing session of a certification course called The …