First of all congratulations all of you for being here in this important event.
I hope that our conversation will contribute to the current debate on the acceleration of the SDGs and the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.
I would like to highlight the engagement of the representatives of the Civil Society Participation Mechanisms of Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe, as well as that of the representatives of the governments of Norway and Nepal (TBC), together with my colleagues from ESCAP and ECE. Our presence here is an example of the importance of the multi-actor and multi-level implementation o…
El 19 y 20 de marzo de 2024, la Oficina de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Uruguay organizó, en cooperación con el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), el Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de la República del Uruguay (UDELAR) y la Young Scholars Initiative del Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI-INET), el seminario y conversatorio internacional sobre género y macroeconomía.
El encuentro, que se realizó en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la UDELAR, contó con la conferencia magistral de la destacada Profesora Ozlem Onaran…
Access to credit is a key component for business development. Yet, for women in Latin America and the Caribbean, there are barriers which hinder this access, hamper women’s entrepreneurship and slow economic empowerment efforts in the region. One of these barriers is risk aversion, both as supply and demand constraint. On the supply side, financial institutions may exhibit inherent gender bias by providing lower levels of financing and higher interest rates to women entrepreneurs. On the demand side, women entrepreneurs may refrain from approaching financial institutions for fear of rejection …