5 Mayo 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:04
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Welcome remarks by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF THE CARIBBEAN
Port of Spain, 5-7 May 2015
Excellencies, academic staff, ladies and gentlemen,
This is my first time in the Caribbean and it is a pleasure to be in Port of Spain and especially at the celebrated University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
Today, the Caribbean, like Latin America, is facing a future fraught with challenges and uncertainty. It is unclear whether the models and strategies that have d…
1 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:00
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Publicación
This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development.
The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…
Statement by Alicia Bárcena
Executive Secretary, ECLAC, United Nations
High Level Launch of the
Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data
Hosted by the Governments of the United States, Kenya, Mexico, and Colombia
New York, 28 September 2015
Jose Angel Gurria, Secretary General of OECD
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Corporate Secretary and President’s Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals, World Bank Group
Amina J.Mohammed, Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Post-2015 Development Planning
Justine Greening, UK Secretary of State for International Dev…
26 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Opening Statement by Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, at the 17th Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the CDCC
June 26, 2015
Port of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
Minister Arnaldo Brown, Chair of the CDCC, Jamaica
Minister Winston Dookeran, Trinidad
Ambassador George Talbot, Co-Chair of the Financing for Development process
Other Distinguished Ministers and Senior Representatives of Government,
Members of the Diplomatic Corps,
Representatives of the United Nations system, regional and international organizations,
Members of the Media,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear friends,…
Statement by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
ECOSOC dialogue with the executive secretaries of the United Nations regional commissions
Title: Managing the transition to the sustainable development goals: what it will take at the regional level
Venue: ECOSOC Chamber Date: 9 July 2015 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Your Excellency, Martin Sajdik, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Your Excellency, Maria Emma Mejía, Vice-…
16 Sep 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Comunicado de prensa
Durante un foro de mujeres líderes convocado por la Canciller de Alemania Angela Merkel, la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, llamó al Grupo de los siete (G7) a abordar con un enfoque colectivo el tema de la cooperación internacional para resolver de esta forma los distintos problemas globales, entre ellos, la crisis migratoria.
Bárcena habló en nombre de una región considerada de ingresos medios que ya no califica para recibir la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo (AOD). “Tenemos que pensar en qué tipo de cooperación queremos estab…
Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the ceremony marking the full membership of the Kingdom of Norway in the Commission
ECLAC headquarters, Santiago
4 October 2015
Dear Tone Skogen, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Norway,
Dearest friend, Hege Araldsen, Ambassador of Norway to Chile,
Members of the official delegation of Norway,
Members of the diplomatic corps,
Colleagues of the United Nations system,
Colleagues of ECLAC,
Friends,
Receive our warmest welcome on this very special occasion, o…
Your Excellency the Right Honourable Freundel Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados, and Chair of the Caribbean Community, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Members of the Cabinet, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to join all of you for this High Level Symposium on sustainable economic development in the Caribbean.
And it is a special honour to do so here.
For Small Island Developing States, this space is hallowed ground.
Twenty years ago, this very building was the site of the First Global Conference on SIDS that adopted the Barbado…
27 Feb 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:04
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Thank you very much for the chance to address this important meeting in beautiful Santiago de Chile. I am delighted to see so many dynamic leaders here.
I am especially honoured by the presence of Her Excellency President Michelle Bachelet. We will always be grateful for her impressive legacy as the founding Executive Director of UN Women.
I stand before you as someone who is keenly aware of the struggle for women’s human rights.
My mother is 95 and still going strong. But when she came of age, she did not have the right to vote – like so many other women around the world at tha…
En una región altamente urbanizada como la de América Latina y el Caribe, la política urbana puede hacer la diferencia en materia de protección al medio ambiente, dijo el Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Antonio Prado, durante el International Seminar on Consumption Patterns for Sustainable Development. Challenges and opportunities for a post-2015 world (Seminario internacional sobre patrones de consumo para el desarrollo sostenible sostenible. Desafíos y oportunidades para el mundo post-2015), realizado los días 30 de junio y 1 de …
2 Nov 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Comunicado de prensa
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) calls for redoubling efforts to defeat poverty and reduce inequality in the current context of economic deceleration in the region, in its latest study entitled Inclusive social development: The next generation of policies for overcoming poverty and reducing inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This new document by the United Nations regional organization will be presented officially, and analyzed by authorities and specialists of the region, during the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and t…
Staff members from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) thanked United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his support in rebuilding the organization’s headquarters, an icon of modern Latin American architecture, after an earthquake that affected central and southern Chile in February 2010. Ban Ki-moon visited Santiago on an official mission from February 26 to March 1.
During his third official visit to Chile, Mr. Ban participated in a high-level event organized by UN Women and Chile’s government, and his agenda included a town-hall meeting at ECLAC’s hea…
26 Feb 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Comunicado de prensa
El Secretario General de la ONU encomió hoy los esfuerzos de Paraguay para reducir la pobreza e instó al país a promover un desarrollo inclusivo con equidad.
Ban Ki-moon arribó a Asunción, la capital, como parte de una visita oficial de tres días. A su llegada ofreció una conferencia de prensa tras concluir una reunión con el presidente de ese país, Horacio Cartes, y con miembros de su gabinete.
“Los paraguayos deberían estar muy orgullosos del liderazgo de su país para avanzar la agenda de los países en desarrollo sin litoral. Paraguay también se ha sumado a los esfuerzos globales en la luc…
20 Feb 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Comunicado de prensa
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, destacó el miércoles 18 de febrero durante una visita a Bogotá el liderazgo y compromiso de Colombia con la agenda de desarrollo después de 2015 que se discute a nivel global y que contempla el reemplazo de los actuales Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) por los futuros Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS).
Bárcena participó en una ceremonia encabezada por el Presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, donde se firmó un decreto que crea la Comisión Interinstitucional de Alto Niv…
Los funcionarios de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) agradecieron al Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Ban Ki-moon, quien visitó Santiago en misión oficial del 26 de febrero al 1 de marzo, su apoyo para la reconstrucción de la sede del organismo, ícono de la arquitectura moderna latinoamericana, tras el terremoto que afectó al centro y sur de Chile en febrero de 2010.
En su tercera visita oficial a este país, Ban Ki-moon participó en un evento de alto nivel organizado por ONU Mujeres y el Gobierno de Chile y su agenda incluyó un town-hall meeting en la sed…
17 Abr 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Comunicado de prensa
(17 de abril, 2015) Los países miembros de la CEPAL lanzaron un proceso de consulta para la creación del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, durante una reunión extraordinaria del Comité Plenario de este organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas, celebrada el jueves 16 de abril en Santiago, Chile.
El Comité Plenario es un órgano subsidiario de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) que permite a los gobiernos de los países miembros reunirse entre las sesiones oficiales de la Comisión. En su trigésimo período de sesiones, reali…
24 Jun 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Noticias
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean remains committed to providing assistance to Caribbean countries, as the region prepares a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be included in the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda, declared today its Director, Diane Quarless.
The head of the ECLAC Caribbean office opened the Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, organized by the UN Commission, with the support of …
28 Oct 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Palabras de Antonio Prado, Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto de la CEPAL, en el V Foro Empresarial del Pacto Mundial en América Latina y El Caribe: Responsabilidad y Sostenibilidad.
28 de octubre de 2015
Santiago de Chile
CEPAL
Buenos días, en nombre de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe y del mío reciban ustedes una cordial bienvenida. Estamos muy complacidos de ser sede de este V Foro Empresarial del Pacto Mundial en América Latina y el Caribe. Creemos que este espacio de diálogo y discusión es especialmente importante ya que se produce en una coyuntura difícil de la eco…
7 Ago 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:05
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Nota informativa
En el marco del II Foro Interamericano de Presidentes de Parlamentos celebrado el 6 y 7 de agosto de 2015 en el Congreso Nacional de Chile, la CEPAL participó en el debate sobre desarrollo sostenible en el que se trataron la participación y acceso a la información y la democracia ambiental en la región.…
7 Mayo 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:06
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Columna de opinión
In the upcoming months, decision-makers and leaders will have unprecedented opportunities to establish, within a multi-lateral framework, a transformational agenda for the future of sustainable development. In a context of global paradigm shifts, the concurrence of three key global summits will define the route and aspirations of this agenda for the coming decades.
The Third Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Addis Ababa in July, represents a unique forum for recasting development financing to meet the approach of the post-2015 development agenda. This agenda, to be ad…