Los días 3 y 4 de septiembre de 2025 se realizará en Asunción (Paraguay) la decimocuarta versión de las Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Financiación Local (XIV-JIFL) organizadas por la Asociación Iberoamericana de Financiación Local (AIFIL), la Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL), la División de Gestión Fiscal del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas de Paraguay y la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA).…
Intervención de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, en la clausura de los trabajos del Primer Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible
28 de abril de 2017
Salón José María Morelos
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
Ciudad de México
Luis Videgaray Caso, Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México,
Embajador Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, Subsecretario para Asuntos Multilaterales y Derechos Humanos,
Estimados representantes de los Estados miembros del Foro,
Estimadas autoridades nacionales y Miembros del Cuerpo Diplomático,
Representantes de o…
El 14.º Foro Internacional sobre Energía para el Desarrollo Sostenible (14-IFESD por sus siglás del inglés International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development) se celebrará del 28 al 30 de octubre de 2025 en Skopie, República de Macedonia del Norte y está organizado por el Ministerio de Energía, Minería y Recursos Minerales de Macedonia del Norte, la Oficina del PNUD en Macedonia del Norte y las cinco Comisiones Regionales de las Naciones Unidas: CEPE/UNESCO, CESPAP, CEPA/UNESCO, CESPAO y la CEPAL.…
Organizations working with persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Caribbean have a better chance to access funds for disability-related projects, following a training workshop conducted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) sub-regional headquarters for the Caribbean.
The workshop, which was held on 23 October 2019 at ECLAC Caribbean headquarters in Port of Spain, brought together universal service funds (USFs) administrators and organizations working with PWDs across Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenad…
This publication, compiled by Gilberto C. Gallopín, Regional Adviser in Environmental Policy for Latin America and the Caribbean, contains the results of the deliberations of the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Workshop on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development. The purpose of the Workshop was to discuss the practical, theoretical and organizational challenges that the quest for sustainable development poses to science and technology (S&T). The increase in complexity and connectivity characteristic of our times results in that the components of the problems are now much …
Abstract This paper seeks to provide a systematized framework for the main ideas that have been developed by ECLAC concerning the effects that market-led reforms have had on labour, financial and technology markets. In order to explore these questions further, a research project has been undertaken by ECLAC with the sponsorship of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The project deals with the institutional requirements for properly functioning financial, technology and labour markets. Particular attention is being devoted to the institutional forces affecting market access by tr…
Los días 7 y 8 de agosto de 2019 se realizó en Paraguay este foro cuyo principal objetivo fue promover el cuidado de las personas adultas mayores a través de Sistemas de atención a largo plazo enfocada en la persona y el autocuidado desde la comunidad.…
Foro de discusión conjunta del Observatorio Regional de Planificación para el Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe y la Red de Planificación para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe ILPES/AECID…
Durante esta versión del Foro, la primera en una ciudad de América Latina y el Caribe, se reafirmó el papel esencial de las estadísticas de género para avanzar en la implementación de la Agenda Regional de Género y la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible.…
La producción de estadísticas oficiales es una actividad que demanda responsabilidad y compromiso por parte de los organismos encargados; de esta forma, la credibilidad en las estadísticas y, por ende, en las oficinas nacionales de estadística y demás miembros del sistema estadístico nacional se convierte en un activo fundamental, en la medida en que permite el diseño, la formulación, el seguimiento y la evaluación de planes y programas gubernamentales.Dicha credibilidad es un valor que se afianza con el tiempo, mediante la generación de estadísticas de calidad que cumplen con es…
15 Feb 2024, 15:00 - 17:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
This Community of Practice is an informal space for exchange among peers and sharing of good practices with regards to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in general and the Voluntary National Review (VNR) in particular. It also aims to provide a regular space for countries to communicate with regards to VNRs preparations.
PARTICIPANTS
Barbados, Belize, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Session goals
The goal of this session was to discuss data and statistics for SDG implementation.…
15 Ene 2020, 06:00 - 13:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
This community of practice is an informal space for exchange among peers and sharing of good practices with regards to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in general and the Voluntary National Review (VNR) in particular. It also aims to provide a regular space for countries to communicate with regards to VNRs preparations.
PARTICIPANTS
Belize, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
Session goals
The goal of this session was to discuss data and statistics for SDG implementation, with a specific focus on the experience in Jamaica.…
El objetivo del evento virtual fue promover los esfuerzos del sector privado para el cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030 en Venezuela y contó con la participación de Jeannette Sánchez, Directora de la División de Recursos Naturales de la CEPAL, quien presentó los desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan las empresas respecto al sector ambiental y los recursos naturales.…
The government of Cuba established a tax regime for micro-enterprises as soon as it legalized the sector in 1993. It was designed to function in a difficult context in which a tax-paying culture did not exist, in which widespread noncompliance was feared, and in which some micro-entrepreneurs' incomes were high. The tax regime included advance monthly lump-sum payments, a 10% maximum amount of total revenues which could be deducted as costs in calculating taxable income, and an escalating tax schedule. This tax regime has a number of weaknesses which make it inequitable, inefficient and i…
As part of the United Nations Development Programs thematic focus on poverty eradication and Poverty Strategy Initiatives, the UNDP, in cooperation with the Armenian Government, the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), organized a workshop on Social Indicators to be held at Yrevan, Armenia on November 13-14, 1997. In accordance with the United Nations Global Conferences and their goals, the workshop pursued as its goal the elaboration of poverty initiatives to alleviate poverty, preserve the human capital and adjust it to new market conditions, wh…
In order to encourage reflection on a potential inland waterways classification for the South American region, tthis document uses the example of the European system of classification to demonstrate the role of classifications in the inland navigation development and formulates an initial proposal for the classification. An previous version of this document has been published as the ECLAC FAL Bulletin 346: Inland waterways classification as a tool for public policy and planning: core concepts and proposals for South America and discussed during the expert meeting on inland navigation and its r…
En términos de su contenido, este artículo sigue la línea del Boletín FAL No. 167, si bien ahora se revisa exclusivamente lo que ha ocurrido en materia de facilitación del comercio en APEC. Así, se amplían y actualizan los antecedentes anteriormente entregados en el citado Boletín. Además, se han incorporado más elementos analíticos.…
5 - 06 Jun
2025, 09:00 - 17:00
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
Río de Janeiro acogerá el 5 y 6 de junio de 2025 la VIII Reunión de FOREPLEN, donde autoridades y expertos de la región abordarán desafíos de la planificación energética y promoverán una transición sostenible y resiliente.…
The publication of this book was made possible by the contributions of the Ford Foundation and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The funds of the latter institution are managed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). This is an ECLAC and Palgrave Macmillan copublication. Preface From time to time, Latin American countries experience growth spurts, like in the period 2004-05, when the region achieved the highest biennial growth rate of the past 25 years. However, sustained growth has been elusive in the last quarter …
This document is prepared by Edward Palmer, Consultant of the Project ¨Inclusion of the European Nordic Model in the debate concerning reform of social protection schemes in Latin American and the Caribbean¨ (SWE/05/001). This project that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is carrying out in the Social Development Division, with the financial support of Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Prepared as a support to the document Shaping the Future of Social Protection: Access, Financing and Solidarity presented in the XXXI ECLAC Sess…