In the framework of his official visit to Chile, the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, gave a keynote lecture today at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Santiago, urging the region’s countries to dialogue in a context of mutual respect, putting the interests that unite them first and offering a continent of peace in a troubled world, plagued by conflicts that have affected all countries due to their magnitude.
The Paraguayan leader – who took office on August 15, 2023 – was received by the United Nation…
No contexto de sua visita oficial ao país, o Secretário Executivo da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, se reuniu hoje na Cidade da Guatemala com o Presidente da República da Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo de León; nesse encontro dialogaram sobre a agenda atual de cooperação entre o governo e o organismo regional das Nações Unidas e exploraram áreas de colaboração para o desenvolvimento dessa nação centro-americana.
A CEPAL enfatizou a importância de que os países da América Latina e do Caribe dinamizem seu crescimento e o tornem mais inclu…
Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Ricardo Hausmann, will visit the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile on Thursday, September 28, where he will give a keynote lecture and be received by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary.
The renowned economist – founder and Director of Harvard University’s Growth Lab – will deliver a speech entitled “How can high, sustained, sustainable and inclusive growth be achieved?”
The presentation, which will begin at 11 a.m. local time in Chile (UTC/GMT…
Liu Zhenmin, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General in charge of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), met today with the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, and the directors of all the Commission’s divisions, in the framework of his visit to Chile.
During the meeting, both UN entities reaffirmed the cooperation ties that unite them and renewed their pledge to continue working together to help the global organization’s member countries to advance on fulfilling the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Dev…
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(25 January 2013) About 20 United Nations agencies represented in Latin America and the Caribbean met on Thursday 24 January at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, to analyse the regional situation and the UN's post-2015 development agenda.
At the beginning of the meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Coordination Mechanism, ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, welcomed Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, who is visiting Chile to take part in the 1st Summit o…
In the framework of his official visit to the country, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, met today in Guatemala City with the President of the Republic of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo de León, where they discussed the current cooperation agenda between the Government and the United Nations regional organization and explored areas of collaboration for the Central American nation’s development.
ECLAC has stressed the importance of Latin American and Caribbean countries invigorating their growth and making…
The Government of Peru and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed their resolve to strengthen cooperation on distinct matters related to economic, social and environmental development, during an official visit lasting 24 hours that Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, made today to that country.
The senior United Nations authority led an official ECLAC mission to Lima, the first since President Pedro Castillo was sworn into office on July 28 of this year, with the aim of reaffirming the organization’s willingness to work jointly on those ar…
Peter Thomson, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) today in Santiago, Chile, where he met with the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and spoke with journalists.
At the press conference, Thomson expressed appreciation for Chile’s efforts to protect and conserve the ocean and encouraged the country to continue playing a leadership role in this area at the two major international events that will take place towards the end of the year in that c…
(22 August 2002) Next Monday 26 August Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001, will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), to give a Magisterial Lecture entitled: Whither Reforms? Towards a New Agenda for Latin America, on the occasion of the Second Raúl Prebisch Chair Magisterial Lecture.
The lecture will take place at 11:00 am in the Raúl Prebisch Room at ECLAC (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld s/n, Vitacura, Santiago) and will be chaired by the Executive Secretary of this Regional …
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(5 October 2012) Today, President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he called for investment and sustainable development to be based on solid principles and to respect the well-being and environmental rights of local communities.
As part of his tour of Chile, Brazil and Argentina, the leader took part in the Seminar on "Investment for economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability" , organized by the European Union (EU), the Government of…
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The Ninth Meeting of the Negotiating Committee of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place in San José, Costa Rica, between 28 February and 4 March 2018.
To register and for more information visit: http://negociacionp10.cepal.org/9/en…
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Para ver el programa y más información visite: http://negociacionp10.cepal.org/3/es/programa/taller-participacion-publ……
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San José, Costa Rica, October 6, 2023 (IICA). The strengthening of regional cooperation is vital today to address the challenges and opportunities created by the confluence of crises around the world, and to be able to promote sustainable, inclusive and resilient agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
The point is emphasized in the latest edition of The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas: A Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean 2023-2024, a report prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Food an…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Chile will host the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF 2015) in Santiago de Chile from September 9-11. The conference will cover the latest developments in market-based mechanisms to address climate change, carbon trading, climate finance, and low-emission development.
The Minister of Environment of Chile, Pablo Badenier, will offer a speech at the opening of the meeting, at 9.00 am. on September 9.
Coming just months before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, where co…
(30 August 2012) Today, authorities and experts stressed the relevance in this global economic crisis of the structural change for equality that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is proposing to the region as part of its thirty-fourth session being held from Monday 27 to Friday 31 August in El Salvador.
On the fourth day of ECLAC's most important biennial meeting, Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, presented the main proposals from the latest institutional document entitled Structural change for equality: An integrated approach to development, which outlines…
The President of the Argentine Republic, Alberto Fernández, will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, in the framework of his state visit to Chile.
The Argentine leader will deliver a virtual keynote lecture starting at 11:00 a.m. local time (UTC/GMT -3:00), speaking from the United Nations organization’s central headquarters, where he will be received by Alicia Bárcena, the regional commission’s Executive Secretary.
Also participating in the event, to be inaugurated by Alicia Bárcena, will be Ennio Vivald…
As the latest edition of the Development Policy Studies Program (ELADES) concluded, Felipe Correa, ELADES coordinator, highlighted how the Library's services have been important in facilitating the program and shared its recent innovations.…