(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…
Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean along with international officials posed the urgency of renewing international cooperation on the basis of a multidimensional measurement of development, which would take into account the structural gaps that middle-income countries face, during a virtual event organized by the Government of Costa Rica and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the sidelines of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021.
The virtual event entitled Multidimensional measurements of development: opportunities for …
Ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, along with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, will participate in an event on the challenges faced by the region to finance its development, in the framework of the international conference on this matter that will take place on July 13-16 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The event, which will address the domestic mobilization of resources and the international financial governance from the perspective of mi…
The survey provides an overview of the economic performance for 2014 of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago plus the eight member states of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) and the outlook for 2015. Data were collected from a review of reports from national governments and through interviews with government officials in each of the countries analyzed.…
(March 12, 2015) Authorities and ministers from several countries in the region, as well as senior representatives from the United Nations, said that it is necessary to rethink the international financial architecture and put inclusion at the center of the new post-2015 development agenda, in the context of a meeting on financing for development held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
In the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Consultation on Financing for Development, organized by ECLAC and Chile’s government, …