“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…
This issue of the Economic and Social Panorama of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is a contribution by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to the third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), to be held in San José in January 2015.
This document is based on excerpts from some of the annual flagships published by the Commission in 2014: Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2013 (LC/G.2582-P); Demographic Observatory 2013 (LC/G.2615-P); Economic Survey of Lati…
El Panorama Económico y Social de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños es una contribución de la CEPAL a la tercera Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), que se realizará en San José en enero de 2015.
El presente documento se basa en extractos de algunos de los principales informes anuales publicados por la CEPAL durante 2014: Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2013 (LC/G.2582-P), Observatorio Demográfico 2013 (LC/G.2615-P), Estudio Económico de América Latina y el Caribe 2014 (LC/G.2619-P), Balan…