High-level government officials and senior international gender experts are calling for more to be done to ensure the economic and social autonomy of Caribbean women. Within the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the opportunities and challenges faced by women as against men in such areas as employment, education, human rights and political leadership speak to the issues of equality which are at the heart of discussions being held at the Caribbean preparatory meeting of the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, taking place on 26-27 July 201…
Latin America and the Caribbean’s taxation systems must be part of a model oriented towards equality of rights and sustainable development, officials contended today at the inauguration of the XXVII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, which is taking place through Wednesday at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The event, inaugurated by Chilean Finance Minister Alberto Arenas and ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, is organized by the Commission with the sponsorship of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Wo…
In August and September, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will give four courses oriented towards government officials and academics and researchers from the region’s countries on prospective, digital government, planning and public leadership, all with the support of Spanish cooperation.
The courses will be held in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala and Uruguay by experts from ECLAC’s Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), in the framework of the Technical Cooperation Program between this United Nations regional organizati…
Fiscal panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean
(05 March, 2013) Over the past decade (in particular since 2002), most countries in the region witnessed a substantial increase in their tax burden as a percentage of GDP, together with far-reaching structural changes, including consolidation of the value added tax (VAT), a significant improvement in the share of direct taxes in total tax receipts and a decline in tariffs on international trade. A number of factors contributed to this increase in the tax burden (albeit conditions varied significantly from one country to the other): strong…
(15 October 2010) The contribution that information and communications technologies (ICTs) can make to social development, especially in the fields of education and health, will be examined during an international seminar to be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile on Wednesday, 20 October.
The seminar Social Policies and the Information Society: Gaps, Opportunities and Rights is organized by ECLAC's Social Development Division with the support of the European Union through its cooperation initiative LIS.
The event will discuss the most significant ICT issues and their contribution to …
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(16 October 2012) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, joined by ECLAC's Directors Osvaldo Rosales and Raúl García-Buchaca, met with high-level officials of the People's Republic of China as part of the first visit that the senior United Nations official carried out to the Asian country.
Ms. Bárcena held meetings in Beijing with Vice Premier Hui Liangyu and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.
Vice Premier Hui stated that China values its relationship with ECLAC highly, and announced that his Government will…
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Institution
Antigua and Barbuda
Government of Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Ministerio de Salud
Bahamas
Government of the Bahamas
Barbados
Government of Barbados
Belice
Government of Belize
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Gobierno de Bolivia
Brazil
Ministério da Saúde
Chile
Gobierno de Chile
Ministerio de Salud
Colombia
Gobierno de Colombia
Ministerio de Salud
Costa Rica
Ministerio de Salud
Cuba
Ministerio de Salu…
The academic program, taught by ECLAC's Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y Social - ILPES), involves 70 officials from 17 Paraguayan public administration institutions.…
During his academic stay in Santiago, Dr. Luca Di Gennaro examined the challenges of producing official data in Latin America and its effect on public decision-making.…
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
Official statistics are based on a set of principles that ensure that they are impartial, relevant, and accurate and can be relied upon as a public good by all users. This 30th Anniversary provides an opportunity to discuss the past, present, and future of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and their relevance in the context of a rapidly changing data landscape.…
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, visited today the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he had meetings with various officials from the regional organization.
Alston, an Australian, was welcomed by ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, on behalf of the Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena. His agenda included meetings with ECLAC’s experts on poverty, inequality, education and social protection.
ECLAC is one of the five United Nations regional commissions…
Official statistics are an indispensable public good for the proper functioning of societies and democracy, according to the representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries gathered at the Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, which is taking place through Thursday, September 28 at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
Starting today, the intergovernmental meeting – which is the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region – has convened authorities from Nation…
(18 February, 2010) The Regional Coordination Mechanism for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations system concluded a two-day meeting in Mexico City today, stressing their commitment to strengthen interagency cooperation to address the development challenges of the region.
Ten years after the Millennium Declaration, representatives from several United Nations organizations and agencies highlighted the coordination efforts made in the assessment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
An interagency report about the region's progre…
“The challenge facing the Caribbean is to identify paths to development that emphasize macroeconomic stability with growth, equity, and environmental sustainability. This will provide a bulwark against external shocks and the protection necessary for those that are most vulnerable”, Mr. Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, said during the opening of the 26th session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), held in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis on 22 April 2016.
Addressing senior policy makers from across the subregion, Diane Quarless, Director of ECLAC …
(12 July, 2013) The medium-term challenges and the shaping of a post - 2015 development agenda in the Caribbean were discussed during the Sixteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Georgetown, Guyana.
During the High- level meeting, held on 11 July 2013, government representatives and officials discussed three issues. Presentations were made on the outcome of the Caribbean regional preparatory meeting for the 2014 third international conference on Small Is…
This study focuses on the relationship among official development assistance (ODA), social capital and economic growth in Latin American countries, attempting to determine whether the impact of such assistance on growth is conditional on the receiving country’s stock of social capital. To this end, we use “trust” to measure social capital in an unbalanced panel of 18 Latin American countries over the period 2001-2010. After accounting for country and time effects in a dynamic panel data model, our results show that the impact of ODA on growth is indeed conditional on the level of trust that ex…
In July, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch a training program in quantitative analysis techniques for officials from Argentina’s public administration.
The program consists of four independent courses of a theoretical-practical nature, 20 hours each, which will be implemented as workshops with emphasis on the application of concepts and techniques presented using software that is suited to each specific one.
The first course will take place on July 26-29 and will be given by Alejandra Silva, of ECLAC’s Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Cente…