(15 August 2012) The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present to the region its proposal on structural change for equality during its thirty-fourth session that will take place in San Salvador, El Salvador, from 27 to 31 August.
The most important biennial meeting of this United Nations regional commission will be officially opened on Tuesday 28 August at 10.00 a.m. (El Salvador time zone) by ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, President of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, and the country's Foreign Affairs Minister, Hugo Martínez.
The session will be atte…
(18 April 2012) In order to promote sustainable development in Latin America, it is necessary to transform industrial structures so that they include sectors related to knowledge and dynamic productivity, and to avoid those focusing on energy consumption, as stated in an ECLAC study published in the English edition of CEPAL Review Nº 105 - already available online.
In the article "The dynamics of industrial energy consumption in Latin America and their implications for sustainable development", ECLAC officials Hugo Altomonte, Nelson Correa, Diego Rivas and Giovanni Stumpo analyzed data from Br…
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(7 November 2012) The Forty-eighth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was opened today at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, in the presence of Ministers, Deputy Ministers and other government representatives in charge of gender equality policies in the region, as well as international officials and members of civil society.
The opening ceremony was led by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Eleonora Menicucci, Ministe…
(2 August 2012) According to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, speaking in Peru: the State must play a more active role in reducing inequality using policies and social services with a rights-based approach.
The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the Technical Meeting of High-level Officials and Experts on Social Policies and Human Development in follow-up to the UNASUR Declaration against Inequality: Towards an Agenda of Priority Social Actions, which is being held in Cusco and attended b…