Heads of State, ministers and other high-level authorities from more than 25 Caribbean countries, along with officials from international and multilateral organizations, stressed the importance of implementing urgent solutions to support financing for development for that subregion’s nations in the era of COVID-19 and beyond, during two important virtual meetings convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) this Thursday, September 10.
The Sixth Meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable (CDR) and the Twenty-eighth Session of the Caribbean Development an…
“There is no trade-off between equality and economic efficiency. They are mutually reinforcing and interacting with each other,” Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated today during a high-level event organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
The senior UN official exchanged views with prominent international experts, such as Columbia University Professor and Nobel Prize winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; two other professors from the same university, Jeffrey Sachs and José Anto…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, warned today that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will have devastating effects on the global economy that will certainly be more intense than and distinct from those felt during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, adding that Latin American and Caribbean countries will not be spared since they will be affected through numerous channels.
The senior United Nations official participated this Thursday, March 19, in an Inter-American Dialogue Conference Call on the Coronavirus an…
Faced with such an uncertain and regionalized global economy, Latin America and the Caribbean must deepen cooperation and bolster regional agreements, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), sustained today in the framework of the XII session of the Inter-Parliamentary Monitoring Commission of the Pacific Alliance (CISAP), which was carried out virtually.
The senior United Nations official spoke about international cooperation and post-pandemic regional projections on a panel led by congressman Miguel Ángel Calisto, President …