Development in transition fosters new forms of international cooperation that go well beyond financial aid and Official Development Assistance (ODA) and entail coordinated efforts at a national, regional and international level, Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today at a high-level event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, which is being held this week in New York.
The event “Emerging Challenges and Shifting Paradigms: New Perspectives on International Co-operation for Development” – organized by ECLA…
Climate resilience through green investment, the impact of de-risking and the promotion of sustainable economic growth were the center of focus at the fifth Caribbean Development Roundtable (CDR). Decision makers, senior policy makers and ministers addressed these pivotal topics over the course of a fruitful day of discussions, which took place today (26 April 2018) in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia.
Convened by the Economic Commission of the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, and hosted by the Government of Saint Lucia, the CDR was officially opened by Mr. Raúl García-Buc…
International development cooperation must change and move from the traditional approach to one that responds to the particular needs of Latin America and the Caribbean, senior government authorities from various countries in the region and United Nations officials indicated today during the Eighth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation, which took place at the organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
The meeting – carried out in the framework of “Development in transition week,” which runs from October 2 to 5 – was inaugurated by the Executive Sec…
Academics and international officials who are participating this Monday and Tuesday, August 27-28, in a seminar organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the European Union posed the need to rethink both the region’s structural challenges and international cooperation with the perspective of “development in transition.”
The event entitled “Substantive and analytical workshop: Rethinking development in a world in transition” was inaugurated today by Mario Cimoli, ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, and Stella Zervoudaki, Ambassador and Head of the Euro…