Social development ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean met today in the Dominican Republic to acknowledge the importance of safeguarding social investment and advancing towards universal protection systems to avoid setbacks in the fight against poverty, given the current economic situation, and to make progress to close the inequality gaps identified by ECLAC in a new document.
This was highlighted during the first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Ca…
Latin America and the Caribbean must respond to the challenge of implementing a sustainable economy with a big environmental push that takes into account investment and spending with sustainability and involves the public and private sectors as well as civil society, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today.
In the framework of the inauguration of the Latin American Conference on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is being held at ECLAC’s h…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, reaffirmed today the commitment of the five United Nations regional commissions to accompany all countries—and Latin American and Caribbean states in particular, in ECLAC’s case—when establishing regional positions and facilitating global consensus on the design and perfection of the indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
“The regional space—both the regional commissions and their intergovernmental bodies working in the area of official statistics—has played a vi…