Destacados economistas y expertos internacionales en temas tributarios debatieron este jueves 7 de diciembre en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, sobre los desafíos de la política fiscal para fomentar un crecimiento económico con mayor inclusión, igualdad social y sostenibilidad ambiental.
En el Seminario Internacional: Experiencias de Incidencia en Temas Tributarios, organizado por la Fundación Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) en conjunto con la CEPAL, los participantes compartieron distintas experiencias de países y a nivel internacio…
Offshore Shore Centres (OFCs) are generally small, low tax jurisdictions. In defining International Financial Centers (IFC’s) the International Monetary Fund (IMF) notes that there must be a large number of financial institutions functioning in a simplified regulatory environment, with low or no tax, and with the majority of its transactions initiated offshore. Regional Financial Centres (RFCs) are groups or blocks of countries, viewed as IFCs and which have specialties in the offshore financial business .
Many Caribbean islands, including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Mont…
The fourth industrial revolution underway is forcing a rethinking of the role of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean and requires policies that enable the development of capacities to successfully compete in today’s productive systems, which are characterized by their dynamism, experts agreed during a meeting organized by the Euromipyme project in Mexico City.
The Regional Seminar Latin America and Europe in the Face of Technological Disruption: A New Era of Policies and Institutions for MSMEs began today in Mexico with the participation of Susa…
The fourth industrial revolution underway is forcing a rethinking of the role of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean and requires policies that enable the development of capacities to successfully compete in today’s productive systems, which are characterized by their dynamism, experts agreed during a meeting organized by the Euromipyme project in Mexico City.
La cuarta revolución industrial en curso obliga a repensar el rol de las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (mipymes) de América Latina y el Caribe y a generar políticas que les permitan …
Welcome Remarks
Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado
18th Monitoring Committee of the CDCC
Port of Spain, 19 May 2017
His Excellency, Mark Brantley, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation of Saint Kitts and Nevis and Chair of the CDCC,
Honourable Ministers and other Distinguished Representatives of CDCC Member Countries,
Representatives of regional and international organizations,
Members of the diplomatic corps,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to be here with you once again in beautiful Port of Spain. I bring to you the warm greetings of our Executive Secretary Ali…
Evolving Development thinking and practices in
Latin America and the Caribbean: The role of ECLAC
Keynote Address by Dr Antonio Prado
Deputy Executive Secretary
18th CDCC Monitoring Committee
Port of Spain, 19 May 2017
I thank Diane for that very fitting introduction to my presentation here this morning. We have begun considering how best to commemorate 70 years of ECLAC’s work as a Regional Commission of the United Nations. As you have just seen, our support for development in the region has taken many different forms. However it is safe to say that our principal contri…
The countries of the region reaffirmed their collective commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, recognizing that governments bear the fundamental responsibility for fulfilling it and stressing the need to foster participation by all relevant stakeholders in the process, according to the document signed by the government delegates gathered at the first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, which concluded this Friday in Mexico City.
The Forum, which is annual in nature, was created by mandate of ECLAC’s member cou…
Los países de la región reafirmaron su compromiso colectivo con la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, reconociendo la responsabilidad primordial de los Gobiernos en su cumplimiento, así como la necesidad de fomentar la participación de todos los actores relevantes en el proceso, como consta en el documento firmado por los delegados de los Gobiernos congregados en la primera reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, que concluyó este viernes en Ciudad de México.
El Foro, de carácter anual, fue creado por mandato de los países miembros …
Os países da região reafirmaram compromisso coletivo com a Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, reconhecendo a responsabilidade primordial dos Governos em seu cumprimento, assim como a necessidade de fomentar a participação de todos os atores relevantes no processo, como consta no documento assinado pelos delegados dos Governos reunidos na primeira reunião do Fórum dos Países da América Latina e do Caribe sobre o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, concluída nessa sexta-feira na Cidade do México.
O Fórum, de caráter anual, foi criado pelo mandato dos países-membros no Trigésimo sexto Perí…
Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the opening of the Second Retreat of the Group of Friends of Monterrey
23 April 2017
Club de Banqueros
Mexico City
Ambassador Ulises Canchola, Acting Head of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID),
Noel González, Coordinator for Development Cooperation Fora of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID),
Stephan Reichert, Deputy Head of the Donor Relations Division of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation an…
The mobilization of domestic and external resources, both public and private, is a key pillar for financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, approved by United Nations member countries in 2015, and it requires new partnerships between the public and private sectors. That is what Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), indicated today during the second retreat of the Friends of Monterrey Group, which is being held in Mexico City.
“The 2030 Agenda is a civilizing agenda. It calls on us to make a paradigm shift to pro…
La movilización de recursos internos y externos, públicos y privados, es un pilar clave para el financiamiento de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, aprobada por los países miembros de las Naciones Unidas en 2015, y requiere de nuevas asociaciones entre los sectores público y privado. Así lo señaló hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), durante el segundo retiro del Grupo Amigos de Monterrey, que se realiza en Ciudad de México.
“La Agenda 2030 es una agenda civilizatoria. Nos llama a realizar un cambio de paradigma …
Desde la década de los noventa se ha evidenciado una veloz transformación en las finanzas internacionales que ha llevado a la globalización financiera a niveles sin precedentes. América Latina y el Caribe no han escapado a esta tendencia general. Estos procesos, lejos de generar los beneficios predichos por la teoría, derivaron de manera temprana en crisis de deuda, cambiarias y financieras. Luego de la crisis económica internacional de 2008/2009, tanto las prácticas hacia la liberalización de la cuenta capital como la teoría convencional sobre el tema tendieron a ser revisados. Impulsado por …
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