El evento, organizado por el ILPES, se realizó en paralelo a la tercera reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el desarrollo Sostenible, que se celebra hasta el viernes 26 en la CEPAL.…
Evento paralelo fue celebrado el lunes 22 de abril en la Sala Celso Furtado de la Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago, en el marco de la Tercera Reunión del Foro de Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible.…
The report provides an overview of the economic performance for 2017 of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago plus the eight Member States of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), and the outlook for 2018. Data were collected from a review of reports from subregional institutions as well as national governments and interviews with government officials in each of the countries examined.…
El pasado 23 de abril, se llevó a cabo este evento paralelo al III Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, organizado por la CEPAL…
This report compiles comparable tax revenue statistics over the period 1990-2017 for 25 Latin American and Caribbean economies. Based on the OECD Revenue Statistics database, it applies the OECD methodology to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to enable comparison of tax levels and tax structures on a consistent basis, both among the economies of the region and with other economies. This publication is jointly undertaken by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations, the Economic Commission for Lat…
Les presentamos el nuevo formato del boletín del programa, en esta ocasión como edición especial sobre el tercer Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible. El Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe fue concebido como mecanismo regional para la implementación y seguimiento de la Agenda 2030, adoptada en 2015 por los 193 países representados en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, que establece 17 objetivos y 169 metas en diversas áreas del desarrollo de cara al año 2030. ¡Saludos y buena lectura! Equipo Programa CEPAL - B…
The adoption of e-governance and knowledge management solutions would increase the availability, quality and accessibility of public services and reduce delivery costs in multi-island States and territories across the Caribbean. This, according to experts in the field of information communication technologies (ICTs) and knowledge management (KM), who convened for an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. Held at ECLAC Caribbean headquarters on 03 October 2019 in Port of Spain…
Intense rainfall, storm surges and hurricanes have resulted in an increased number of flooding events in the Caribbean over recent times. The economic impacts of such events in Jamaica and in Trinidad and Tobago, were at the centre of discussions this morning, when regional technicians gathered for an expert group meeting (EGM) hosted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. Discussions during the meeting were guided by an upcoming study by ECLAC Caribbean, entitled `An Economic Analysis of Flooding in the Caribbean – T…
Girls from across Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) showcased their own original technological solutions to gender-based violence and climate change at the T&T segment of the Caribbean.Girls.Hack competition last Friday, 24 May 2019. In doing so, the young girls competed for the opportunity to present their tech-based innovative ideas to policy makers during the upcoming subregional preparatory meeting of the XIV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean …
DPPO y HSC Library presentaron la guía User Guide for Accessing and Using Eurostat Microdata”.…
For many countries, the acceleration of integration into the global economy and multilateral trading system provides an opportunity to access a wider range of goods and services as well as export markets, increasing their economic incomes, and improving the welfare of the citizenry. In particular, preferential trade agreements tend to increase export market access opportunities for the agro-industrial products of developing countries. While increased market access offers many opportunities for enhancing the economic growth of exporting countries, developing countries are often unable to seize…
The workshop was hosted by The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, and jointly organized with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) and Division for Public Institutions and Digital Governance (DPIDG). The workshop was held under the theme, `Integrated Policies and Policy Coherence for the SDGs’, on 13-15 November 2019 at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre, Port of Spai…
Peter Thomson, Enviado Especial del Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas para los Océanos, visitó hoy la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, donde se reunió con la Secretaria Ejecutiva del organismo regional, Alicia Bárcena, y sostuvo un encuentro con periodistas. Durante la conferencia de prensa, Thomson valoró los esfuerzos desplegados por Chile para proteger y conservar los océanos y alentó al país a continuar ejerciendo un rol de liderazgo en esta materia en los dos grandes eventos internacionales que tendrán lugar a fines de este …
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, concluded this Friday, June 21, a two-day visit to Spain, where she participated in two high-level events and held bilateral meetings with government authorities and officials from international cooperation bodies. During these activities, the senior United Nations official insisted on the necessity of carrying out a new, inclusive cooperation model in which middle income countries can fully participate. On Thursday, June 20, Bárcena led the presentation of the report Latin American …
Peter Thomson, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) today in Santiago, Chile, where he met with the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and spoke with journalists. At the press conference, Thomson expressed appreciation for Chile’s efforts to protect and conserve the ocean and encouraged the country to continue playing a leadership role in this area at the two major international events that will take place towards the end of the year in that c…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, and the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany, Norbert Barthle, reaffirmed today in Berlin the strategic cooperation ties between the United Nations regional organization and the German government, with a view to fulfilling the 2030 Agenda in the region. In the framework of a three-day official visit to Germany, the senior representative of the United Nations also met with Christiane Bögemann-Hagedorn, the BMZ’…
The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, presented the El Salvador-Guatemala-Honduras-Mexico Comprehensive Development Plan to President Juan Orlando Hernández and the Government of Honduras and participated in the inauguration of the National Commission on the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (NC-SDG) and the Technical Committee for Sustainable Development, in the context of an official visit to Tegucigalpa on July 24-25. “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Central America-Mexico Compre…
Increasing public revenue is key to strengthening fiscal policy’s capacity for action and bolstering the mobilization of resources to finance the 2030 Agenda. This according to the Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2019, an annual publication by ECLAC released today on the institution’s website. The report – which analyzes current fiscal trends, the evolution of fiscal policies and their future challenges – adds that tackling the high level of tax incompliance and illicit financial flows in the region is more necessary than ever. According to the latest estimate of the Economi…
This paper analyses the relationship between innovation and job creation in firms. In particular, it seeks out data on the role played by innovation during the latest phase of expansion in Argentine manufacturing employment (2010–2012). It uses the model proposed by Harrison and others (2014), taking an instrumental variables approach and drawing data from the recently concluded National Survey of Employment Dynamics and Innovation (ENDEI). The results show that process innovations do not influence employment growth, but that this is positively affected by product innovations. The latter also …
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is an occasion for all of us to renew our promise to end racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred. The recent massacre at two mosques in New Zealand is the latest tragedy rooted in such poison. No country or community is immune from racial and religious hatred and the terrorism of bigots. I am deeply alarmed by the current rise of xenophobia, racism and intolerance. Hate speech is entering the mainstream, spreading like wildfire through soci…