The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, proposed cluster-based policies as a powerful instrument to promote growth and productive diversification to help pull the region out of the prolonged, development crisis that has impeded high, sustained and sustainable growth in the last decades, except in cases of price bonanzas in primary products.
The United Nations senior official is in Davos, Switzerland for the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEF) from January 16-20. The 53rd edition brings together th…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, participated on Thursday, October 26 in the “Dialogues on Uruguay’s Future,” where he reiterated the importance of Productive Development Policies (PDP) as catalysts for higher-quality international economic integration – especially in small economies – and for a better future in terms of production and work in the region’s countries.
The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the two events held in Montevideo in the framework of the “Dialogues …
Official statistics are an indispensable public good for the proper functioning of societies and democracy, according to the representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries gathered at the Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, which is taking place through Thursday, September 28 at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
Starting today, the intergovernmental meeting – which is the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region – has convened authorities from Nation…