(May 25, 2015) “China is prepared to deepen its cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean in order to mutually learn from each other and forge together a new path for the China-Latin America and the Caribbean Comprehensive Cooperation Association, announced by President Xi Jinping last July,” said the Asian country’s Premier, Li Keqiang, during a keynote lecture at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
The senior official gave a lecture aimed at the entire Latin American and Caribbean region, at the end of a tour that included four countries: Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Chile. Chilean…
The structural gaps that persist in the region have hampered dynamic and sustained economic growth and greater social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said during a keynote lecture in Mexico City on Thursday, 12 November.
The senior United Nations official gave a lecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) entitled “Circumstances and Structures. Decolonizing the development agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In it, she presented the foundations …
Li Keqiang, the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, will give a keynote lecture on Monday, May 25, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he will be received by the Executive Secretary of the regional United Nations organization, Alicia Bárcena.
The event will be held at 3:45 p.m., local time in Chile, in the Raúl Prebisch conference room. It will also be broadcast live on the Internet via ECLAC’s website: ://www.cepal.org/es/cepal-en-vivo
The senior official will visit Chile during a tour…
(9 January 2015) Speaking in Beijing, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stated “It is vital for the region to forge closer strategic ties with China in order to attract more Chinese foreign direct investment, particularly that aimed at improving infrastructure, promoting production and export diversification and boosting Chinese-Latin American business partnerships”.
The senior United Nations official was one of the speakers at the first ministerial forum between China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbea…
(April 30, 2015) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, ended today a four-day official visit to Cuba, where she met with senior authorities from that country and participated in a seminar on the economic development of Latin America and the Caribbean island.
Bárcena held a conversation with Cuban President Raúl Castro, in which she reaffirmed ECLAC’s full willingness to continue accompanying the country’s process to bring its economic model up to date. During the talk, she also acknowledged the achievements made in Cuba.…