The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals present a unique opportunity to promote new instruments and innovative mechanisms for financing social and production development in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Green bonds” are an example of alternative financial instruments becoming increasingly available to investors. This report examines the growing green bond market, with emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean.…
The two regional commissions organized a seminar on financial inclusion in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), The Asia Foundation (AF), the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), and the Center for International Cooperation (CIFC) of the Korean Institute of Finance.…
Las dos comisiones económicas organizaron un seminario sobre la inclusión financiera conjunto con el Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), The Asia Foundation (AF), Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) y el Center for Internacional Financial Cooperation (CIFC) del Korean Institute of Finance.…
On Tuesday, September 26, 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Port of Spain hosted an expert group meeting (EGM) which discussed the ECLAC study “A global value chain analysis of offshore medical universities in the Caribbean.”
The study takes a closer look at the Caribbean offshore medical university (OMU) cluster. It examines the contributions that the OMUs make to their host countries. Other factors affecting the competitiveness and long term viability of the OMU cluster in the Caribbean were discussed by experts from Barbados, G…
Triangular cooperation, suited to national development priorities, can contribute to giving an environmental push to the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean and to rethinking regional climate policy, taking into account aspects such as investment and technological change, Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), sustained this Wednesday, September 27, in Lima, Peru.
This alternative, she said, arises in a context of weakening multilateralism and difficulties to mobilize international resources due to the classifica…
La cooperación triangular, sujeta a las prioridades nacionales de desarrollo, puede contribuir a dar un gran impulso ambiental a las economías de América Latina y el Caribe y a repensar la política climática regional, considerando aspectos como la inversión y el cambio tecnológico, sostuvo este miércoles 27 de septiembre en Lima, Perú, Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
Esto, dijo, en un contexto de debilitamiento del multilateralismo y de dificultades para movilizar recursos internacionales debido a la clasificación de los p…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, moderated a high-level roundtable today in New York that was convened by the government of Chile to discuss multidimensional poverty and inequality in middle income countries, in the framework of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet inaugurated the event, entitled “High-level Roundtable on Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality in middle income countries and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.” Participants in…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, moderó hoy en Nueva York una mesa redonda de alto nivel convocada por el Gobierno de Chile para discutir la pobreza multidimensional y la desigualdad en los países de ingreso medio, reunión que se realizó en el marco de la 72⁰ Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas.
En el evento titulado “Mesa redonda de alto nivel sobre la pobreza multidimensional y la desigualdad en los países de ingreso medio, y el logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible”, fue inaugurado por la Presidenta de Ch…
“Today more than ever, cooperation must be promoted and expanded on multilateral bases if we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030,” said the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, this Thursday in Buenos Aires while participating in a meeting organized by the Argentine government and the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
The DCF Argentina High-level Symposium on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda: Building Innovative and Inclusive Partnerships wa…
“Hoy más que nunca la cooperación debe ser promovida y ampliada sobre bases multilaterales si queremos alcanzar en 2030 los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS)”, dijo este jueves en Buenos Aires la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, quien participó en un encuentro organizado por el Gobierno de Argentina y el Consejo Económico y Social de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ECOSOC, por sus siglas en inglés).
El Simposio de Alto Nivel del Foro sobre Cooperación para el Desarrollo en Argentina. Cooperación Sur-Sur y Tria…
Statement by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the opening of the DCF Argentina High-level Symposium on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda
Building Innovative and Inclusive Partnerships
Buenos Aires
7 September 2017
Excellency, Gabriela Michetti, Vice-President of the Argentine Republic
Excellency, Jorge Faurie, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic
Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Friends,
It …
Palabras de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, en la inauguración del Simposio de Alto Nivel del Foro de Cooperación para el Desarrollo en Argentina
Buenos Aires
7 de septiembre de 2017
Su Excelencia Gabriela MICHETTI, Vice Presidenta de la República Argentina
Su Excelencia Jorge FAURIE, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto de la República Argentina
LIU Zhenmin, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Amigas y amigos,
Es un honor y un placer participar de la inauguración del Simposio de Alto Nivel sobre Cooperación Sur Sur y Triangu…