(Brasilia, 31 May 2010) Government representatives and prominent international experts participating in the Thirty-third Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) discussed today the Commission's proposals set forth in its document Time for Equality. Closing Gaps, Opening Trails.
The main working document in the meeting was presented by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena during a high-level seminar attended by government officials and representatives of ECLAC member States and international bodies.
Bárcena stressed the need to establish a new fiscal c…
(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…
(6 October 2010) "Social equality and economic growth should not be at odds," said the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Bárcena today in Madrid.
"Growth with equality requires a macroeconomy that mitigates volatility, foments productivity and favours inclusion and a dynamic production that can close internal and external gaps," she said.
The high-ranking United Nations official presented in Madrid the ECLAC document Time for Equality: Closing Gaps, Opening Trails, published by the Commission this year and released during its Thi…
(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…
(Brasilia, 30 May 2010) "In terms of social equality, the State should ensure that popular will is expressed in agreements that provide political legitimacy and ensure the application of medium- and long-term policies," stated Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) during the inauguration today of the Commission's Thirty-third session in Brasilia, capital of Brazil.
In her inaugural speech, Bárcena highlighted the role of the State in promoting strategic agendas that reflect the deliberations of a broad range of stakehol…