(Brasilia, 31 May 2010) Government representatives and prominent international experts participating in the Thirty-third Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) discussed today the Commission's proposals set forth in its document Time for Equality. Closing Gaps, Opening Trails.
The main working document in the meeting was presented by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena during a high-level seminar attended by government officials and representatives of ECLAC member States and international bodies.
Bárcena stressed the need to establish a new fiscal c…
(25 July 2011) Government authorities from several Latin American and Caribbean countries and senior officials from regional and international agencies met today in ECLAC to discuss the new role of the State in the region's development.
The International Seminar on State and Development was held in honour of Enrique V. Iglesias, Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB) and former Executive Secretary of ECLAC, for his renowned contribution to Latin American thinking on development and the role of the State.
Participants at the meeting agreed on the need to rethink the role of…
One of the main challenges today is to position the State in the most fitting place for the future and create a new state architecture that allows it to be the driver of development strategies in the region’s countries, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, said during the inauguration of a seminar that was held in Brazil on September 3-4, 2015.
The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the International Seminar on the Role of the State in the 21st Century: Challenges for Public Management,…