(4 October, 2013) International migration is a phenomenon with specific regional characteristics, which were presented by the Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado, at the Second High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, which is being held as part of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
On behalf of the five UN regional commissions, the senior official from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented the main messages from discussions organized by the commissions in collaboration with th…
(27 September 2013) The address by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at a seminar today in New York, focused on the promotion of social covenants for equality as the basis for structural change in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The senior official was the main speaker at the event The Future of Latin America: Positioning the Region in the Global Scene, which was organized by the Latin American Student Association (LASA) of the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, New York.
The meeting was …
Government officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, representatives from civil-society organizations and the community met in Lima, Peru, on 17 and 18 September 2013 to explore innovative models in health, education, youth, child labour and school/family violence, with a view to replicating them in their countries of origin to benefit the most disadvantaged groups in the region.
The Workshop on replicating social innovation models was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), with support from th…
(22 August 2013) At a seminar held today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, authorities and experts discussed the public policies needed to build smart cities that will improve the quality of life of citizens in Chile and the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Smart Cities Summit 2013 - Building the cities of tomorrow, today was organized by ECLAC and the País Digital Foundation, with the support of the Government of Chile. It brought together authorities, international officials, academics and private-sector…
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(20 March 2013) Topics such as the expansion of the digital economy and stronger strategies for regional competitiveness, as well as the creation of policies for the massive roll-out of new applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs), will be discussed by senior officials, experts and private-sector representatives at the Fourth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The event, which will be held from 3 to 5 April 2013 in the Radisson Victoria Pla…
(5 December 2012) On the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, representatives from business, UN, government and other stakeholder groups engaged in discussions on the role of fiscal instruments in environmental policy-making with the objective of identifying principles for a framework for environmental taxation and environment-related tax measures that promote green, inclusive economies.
The official side event on this matter, which took place today, was organized by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Latin Am…
(27 June 2012) The fiftieth anniversary of ECLAC's Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) will be celebrated with an international seminar taking place from 2-3 July 2012. Authorities of the region, former directors of the organization and other officials are expected to participate in the event.
ILPES was founded on 2 July 1962 in the aim of supporting Latin American and Caribbean governments in the field of planning and public administration by providing training, consultancy and research services.
The seminar to commemorate the 50th anniversary of th…
The production of official statistics calls for responsibility and commitment on the part of the competent agencies. Thus, credible statistics and reliable national statistical institutes and other members of the national statistical system are vital assets since they are essential to the design, formulation, monitoring and assessment of Government plans and programmes.This credibility is a value that gains strength over time thanks to the generation of quality statistics that comply with standards, principles and norms relating to the production process and statistical activity as…
(29 September 2011) On Monday 3 October, the President of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, will give a magisterial conference at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago, during his official visit to Chile.
The activity, organized by ECLAC and the Embassy of Panama in Chile, will be inaugurated at 3.30 p.m. by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of this regional commission of the United Nations.
The conference is entitled "Panama as a model of economic growth in the Latin American region and the challenge of decreasing poverty".
Martinelli was bor…
(25 July 2011) Government authorities from several Latin American and Caribbean countries and senior officials from regional and international agencies met today in ECLAC to discuss the new role of the State in the region's development.
The International Seminar on State and Development was held in honour of Enrique V. Iglesias, Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB) and former Executive Secretary of ECLAC, for his renowned contribution to Latin American thinking on development and the role of the State.
Participants at the meeting agreed on the need to rethink the role of…
(20 October 2010) Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are changing society and their dissemination has become a vital tool for reducing inequality gaps in Latin American and Caribbean nations, said the Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado, during the inauguration of a seminar at Commission headquarters.
In the seminar Social Policies and the Information Society: Gaps, Opportunities and Rights, government officials and experts analyzed the contribution of ICTs to countries' social development, particularly in education and health, and how they can be incorporated in…
(18 October 2010) The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has joined the celebration of World Statistics Day, which, for the first time this 20 October, will raise awareness of the importance of statistics in decision-making, designing national development policies and government transparency.
World Statistics Day was established by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in June this year under the theme "Celebrating the many achievements of official statistics", acknowledging their importance for national socio-economic development and as a basic pi…
(8 September 2010) High-ranking officials of international and multilateral organizations agreed that inequality is one of the main obstacles for Latin America and the Caribbean to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015 during a round table held today in Washington, D.C.
The XXV OAS Policy Roundtable discussed the document Achieving the Millennium Development Goals with equality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and challenges, which examines the current state of progress in the region towards the fulfillment of the MDGs. The report was prepared within the fram…
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(24 June 2010) "Today, Bolivia vindicates, advocates and begins to build what we have called a plurinational State, a communitarian social economy and a process of decentralization of power by means of departmental, indigenous and regional autonomies. It is a complex State," said today the Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Álvaro García Linera, during a master lecture at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago.
The Bolivian official spoke on Power, the State and Socialism in Contemporary Bolivia in which he addressed the definition of the…
(24 March 2010) José Miguel Insulza, reelected today as Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), will deliver a lecture at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Tuesday, March 30 during a visit to Chile.
Insulza will be welcomed at Commission headquarters by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena at 11 a.m. before delivering the lecture "The Inter American System: Governance and Democracy".
Government officials, members of the diplomatic corps in Chile, academics and representatives of international organizations and civil society are …
(01 March 2010) The 15 bodies and agencies of the United Nations System in Chile met with representatives of the Chilean government today to coordinate the assistance requested by Chilean officials after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country on February 27.
During a meeting convened today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) by its Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena, Chilean Foreign Ministry representative Gastón Sarmiento informed the directors of U.N. agencies and bodies of the government's main requirements in international assi…
The World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 6 to 12 March 1995, brought together a large number of heads of State and Government and official representatives from States Members of the United Nations and culminated in the adoption of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development. These two documents —the first containing policy statements, the other dealing with their practical application— imply commitments at the national, regional and international levels.
Barely two years have passed si…
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The official preparatory meeting for the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Escazú Agreement (preCOP) will take place virtually on 4 March 2024 between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Santiago, Chile time.
It will discuss the issues to be addressed at the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
The meeting will be open, with prior registration and streamed live.
For more information related to the preCOP, please visit the website of the Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Escazú Agreement…
As part of the Development Account Project on “Increasing the Contribution of Preferential Trade Agreements to Inclusive and Equitable Trade”, the Workshop on Trade Policy and Trade Indicators will review key theories of international trade, international trade data classifications, data sources, indicators and quantitative methods, among others.
This capacity building workshop aims to train officials from the Government of Jamaica in tools that will be useful for creating evidence-based policies in international trade and related areas. …
6 Jul 2021, 06:00 - 08:25
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As part of the month of Development in Transition: Dialogues to chart new paths for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, together with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission, organized the Event: Regional Integration for Economic Recovery. The panel was attended by a group of high-level officials from international organisations and regional integration mechanisms in the Americas and the Caribbean.
The specialists who participated in the event made an urgent call to boost regional integration to achieve a transformative recovery after th…