Three priorities for Caribbean countries development include digital transformation, modern services exports and more South-South cooperation, in particular with Latin America. That was the position of ECLAC Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, expressed at the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), held today in Port of Spain.
Salazar-Xirinachs said that “small size has traditionally been seen in the development economics literature as associated with high costs given the difficulties to take advantage of …
Informa sobre las actividades realizadas en cumplimiento de las resoluciones 6(V) Adquisicion de Servicios de Computacion y 7(V) Fortalecimiento del Secretariado del CDCC . Incluye en anexos, los informes de mision de dos expertos -Senor Hewitt, Director del Centro de Computos de CEPAL, Santiago, y Senor Pelaez Abin, experto cubano- sobre servicios de computacion para las necesidades del Centro de Documentacion del Caribe y Banco de Datos Estadisticos de CEPAL, Puerto Espana.…
26 Jun 2015, 05:30 - 15:00
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Evento (Monitoring committee)
“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…