(March 26, 2015) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, met with Nicolás Maduro, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Caracas today as part of her tour of the South American country.
The United Nations high official also met with Vice President Jorge Arreaza and the expanded Social Welfare Cabinet. The meeting was attended by ministers from the Social Welfare area, as well as that area’s Vice President, Héctor Rodríguez, and Planning and Knowledge Vice President, Ricardo Mendéndez.
Bárcena was accompanied …
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 …
The region of Latin America and the Caribbean must decidedly make progress on economic integration and move towards an integrated space with common rules for trade and investment, Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during a high-level conference held in Santiago, Chile.
The senior United Nations official was the keynote speaker during the first day of the 5th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Initiative for Policy Dialogue on Global Value Chains, Production Transformation and Development—a gathering organized by …
External restrictions, financial integration and income distribution were some of the topics addressed during the second seminar-workshop on productive structure, institutions and economic dynamics held on August 20-21 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in which government officials and experts participated.
The event began with a regional assessment made by Martín Abeles, Director of the Buenos Aires Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Sebastián Valdecantos, an expert from the same institution. Following that, a series of academic studies related to the…
“The intensive use of Internet is essential for the region’s economic growth,” said Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, who today inaugurated the Fifth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, along with Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, José Antonio Meade; Mexico’s Coordinator of the National Digital Strategy, Alejandra Lagunes, and the Executive Director of the Agency for e-Government and Information Society in Uruguay (AGESIC), José Clastornik.
With the participation of the officials in charge of the digital strategies for the regio…
The Latin American Economic Outlook analyses issues related to Latin America’s economic and social development. Ever since the first edition was launched at the 17th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government in November 2007 in Santiago (Chile), the report has offered a comparison of Latin American performance with that of other countries and regions in the world, sharing experiences and good practices with the region’s public officials.…