RIO +20 and the way forward for the Caribbean: Delivering "The Future We Want"

Module for the analysis of growth in international commerce (MAGIC Plus): user guide (updated)

The Module for the analysis of growth in international commerce (MAGIC) is a computer program created by the ECLAC subregional headquarters in Mexico for post-trade analysis of the competitiveness of countries’ exports to the United States market. The new version, MAGIC Plus, handles multiple windows or reports simultaneously, includes exports and imports up to 2010, generates different types of interactive graphics, allows easy administration of user profile options, enables the user to include, modify and eliminate groups of countries and features options to print, create graphics, generate …

Creative industries in the Caribbean: a new road for diversification and export growth

Creative industries have become a new engine of growth and development in the world economy. This dynamic sector, which ranges from traditional arts to multimedia, has been an important driver of innovation and productivity growth. The present study argues that the creative industries can become a pillar for economic diversification and export growth in the Caribbean. The study adds to the developing literature on the creative sector by evaluating export performance in the context of constraints as well as opportunities. The Caribbean creative sector possesses a number of advantages that are r…

President of Uruguay Opened Third School for Policymakers in Science, Technology and Innovation

(16 October 2012) The President of Uruguay, José Mujica, was the main speaker at the high-level conference on science, technology and innovation for inclusive development, which served as the opener today for the third School for Policymakers in Science, Technology and Innovation, which is being jointly organized by the National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII) in Uruguay, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and ECLAC. The conference was opened by Rodolfo Silveira, President of ANII, Jürgen Klenk, Main Advisor to the ECLAC-GIZ Programme and Resident Director of GIZ in Ch…

Primer Ministro de China propuso en la CEPAL foro de cooperación de alto nivel con América Latina y el Caribe

Ver galería de fotos (26 de junio, 2012) Para profundizar la relación estratégica con la región, el Primer Ministro chino Wen Jiabao propuso hoy la creación del foro de cooperación China-América Latina y el establecimiento de un mecanismo de diálogo periódico con la troika de cancilleres de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), convocando a la primera reunión en el curso de 2012. La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, dio la bienvenida a nombre de la institución a Wen Jiabao, quien dirigió desde la sede …

Well-developed Statistical Systems: essential aids for policy-making in the Caribbean

Macroeconomic cooperation for uncertain times: the REDIMA experience

This book shows how international policy cooperation can be beneficial even in the absence of strong real transmission channels between countries. “Cooperation for learning”, the approach to cooperation we present, works by allowing policymakers to exchange experiences and jointly learn how to address regular common policymaking challenges posed by different types of uncertainty. Such cooperation is based on the establishment of links between policymakers and other institutions. International organizations like the United Nations can nurture and support such learning networks. In Latin America…

Negotiating trade agreements for the 21st century

This paper was prepared as a stimulant to discussions at the workshop “Negotiating trade agreements for the 21st century: The case of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement”, organized jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the University of Adelaide’s Institute for International Trade (IIT), with the generous financial support of the Australian Government’s Overseas Aid Program (AUSAid). The workshop, held at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago from 26 to 28 March 2012, brought together experienced trade negotiators from Australia’s D…

Ban Ki-moon will visit Chile to express solidarity and assess humanitarian aid effort after earthquake

(4 March 2010) The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, will arrive in Santiago on Friday, 5 March to express solidarity and sympathy with the people and government of Chile following the 27 February 8.8 magnitude earthquake and to assess the humanitarian assistance effort and the scale of the disaster for himself. The Secretary-General is expected to meet on Friday with President Michelle Bachelet and President-elect Sebastián Piñera, as well as senior government officials in charge of national disaster and emergency humanitarian assistance. He will also reiterate that the Un…

Executive Secretary of ECLAC Made an Official Visit to Cuba

(10 February 2012) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, made an official visit to Cuba from 6 to 8 February, which involved several meetings with senior government officials. The head of this regional commission of the United Nations and Cuban authorities agreed to broaden the partnership agenda to support Cuba's efforts to update its economic model. According to Ms. Bárcena, this process coincides with ECLAC thinking, in particular, with respect to the main objective of guaranteeing equal rights and opportunities by s…

Visita de María Otero, Subsecretaria de Estado de los Estados Unidos para la Seguridad Civil, la Democracia y los Derechos Humanos

Ban Ki-moon visitará Chile para expresar solidaridad y evaluar asistencia humanitaria tras terremoto

(4 de marzo, 2010) El Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Ban Ki-moon, llegará este viernes 5 de marzo a Chile para expresar su solidaridad con el pueblo de Chile y conocer en persona los daños y necesidades urgentes del país tras el violento terremoto de magnitud 8,8 grados que azotó la zona central de Chile el pasado 27 de febrero. Durante su visita, Ban Ki-moon se entrevistará con la Presidenta Michelle Bachelet, el Presidente electo Sebastián Piñera y funcionarios de gobierno encargados de la asistencia humanitaria. Ban Ki-moon reiterará el compromiso de las Naciones Unidas con el g…

Visita del Primer Ministro de la República Popular China, Wen Jiabao

Visita del Presidente de la República de Irlanda, Michael D. Higgins

Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL realizó visita oficial a Cuba

(10 de febrero, 2012) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, realizó una visita oficial a Cuba entre el 6 y 8 de febrero, la cual incluyó diversas reuniones con altos funcionarios de gobierno. La máxima representante de esta comisión regional de las Naciones Unidas acordó con las autoridades cubanas ampliar la agenda de colaboración para apoyar el proceso de actualización del modelo económico en que está empeñado el país. Dicho proceso coincide con el pensamiento de la CEPAL, especialmente respecto al objetivo central de garant…

Visit of Mr. Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China