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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…
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, visited today the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he had meetings with various officials from the regional organization.
Alston, an Australian, was welcomed by ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, on behalf of the Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena. His agenda included meetings with ECLAC’s experts on poverty, inequality, education and social protection.
ECLAC is one of the five United Nations regional commissions…
(13 February 2013) As part of an official visit to Cuba from Monday 11 February to Friday 15, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, has held various meetings with senior government authorities to assess, inter alia, the support that the Commission will provide in 2013 to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), of which Cuba holds the pro tempore presidency.
The delegation accompanying the most senior representative of ECLAC consists in Raúl García-Buchaca, Director of the Programme Planning and Operati…
(3 February 2011) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, met senior officials from the European Union (EU) this week in Brussels to exchange views on how to strengthen dialogue and cooperation between the two regions.
During her three-day visit to the Belgian capital, home to the main EU institutions, Bárcena met with the Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service, Pierre Vimont, highlighting the importance of renewing and strengthening the strategic relationship that began in 1999 with the first …
The distinguished US Economics Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute (in Santa Fe, New Mexico), Samuel Bowles, will give a keynote lecture at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, next Tuesday, March 13.
In the framework of a visit to Chile, Professor Bowles will offer a talk entitled “The Origins and Future of Economic Inequality: Institutions, Technology and Politics” at 11 a.m. in ECLAC’s Raúl Prebisch conference room. He will be welcomed by the Executive Secretary of the Unit…
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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…
(13 January 2012) Today, the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, and the United States Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights, María Otero, stated that violence and inequality are a cause and consequence of poverty, insecurity and underdevelopment, and at the same time they restrict democracy, freedom and lower the quality of life for the population in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Under Secretary, Ms. Otero, visited the headquarters of the regional commission of the United Nations in Santiago, Chile, where she gave a magisterial conference en…
(25 February 2011) "Strengthening industry is a prerequisite for achieving societies with more and better quality jobs, and a more equal income distribution", according to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, speaking last night in Buenos Aires.
Bárcena visited Argentina to sign technical cooperation agreements with the country's Government and take part in the launch ceremony of the 2020 Strategic Industrial Plan, in which ECLAC is involved.
"Countries can only take advantage of all the potential of the domestic market…
Bangkok (ESCAP News) – Developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region continue to fare well in comparison to the rest of the world, but structural weaknesses constrain growth prospects, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) said in its latest regional macroeconomic outlook report released today, emphasizing that more inclusive economic growth is key to ensuring sustainable prosperity for all.
Growth in the region’s developing nations will increase only slightly, to 5.9 per cent in 2015 from 5.8 per cent last year, with no significant change expecte…
Next Thursday, November 23, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will unveil its flagship annual report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023: Labour inclusion as a key axis of inclusive social development, which includes the latest data available on poverty, inequality and social spending in the region. The main topic addressed this year is labor inclusion.
The document – comprising four chapters – will be presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, during a hybrid press conference (in-person and virtual) held at 1…
(17 December 2012) Why is Latin America and the Caribbean still the world's most unequal region, despite the fact that most of its countries are experiencing steady economic growth? The persistent inequality in the region and the apparent lack of specific policies aimed at reducing the income distribution gap are some of the issues tackled in the latest issue of the CEPAL Review, which is available online from today.
This issue (Nº 108) of the main academic publication of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) includes 10 articles on various economic and social top…
(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…
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(14 June 2011) The strong economic recovery of Latin America and the Caribbean will make it possible to bring down unemployment significantly from 7.3% in 2010 to between 6.7% and 7.0% in 2011, according to ECLAC and ILO.
In the latest edition of the joint publication The Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean that was released today, the two United Nations agencies analyse labour trends in the region, as well as the countercyclical policies implemented by some countries during the recen…
(October 5, 2014) In the face of an uncertain global scenario with an economic crisis, the risk of pandemic diseases and the damaging effects of climate change, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, called while in Mexico for working towards equality and closing the gaps that separate the richest from the poorest.
Alicia Bárcena's mission in Mexico lasted one week and had as its conceptual framework the central documents that ECLAC released in its latest sessions: Time for Equality: Closing Gaps, Opening Trails (Brasilia…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) calls for redoubling efforts to defeat poverty and reduce inequality in the current context of economic deceleration in the region, in its latest study entitled Inclusive social development: The next generation of policies for overcoming poverty and reducing inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This new document by the United Nations regional organization will be presented officially, and analyzed by authorities and specialists of the region, during the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and t…
Staff members from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) thanked United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his support in rebuilding the organization’s headquarters, an icon of modern Latin American architecture, after an earthquake that affected central and southern Chile in February 2010. Ban Ki-moon visited Santiago on an official mission from February 26 to March 1.
During his third official visit to Chile, Mr. Ban participated in a high-level event organized by UN Women and Chile’s government, and his agenda included a town-hall meeting at ECLAC’s hea…
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(25 de enero, 2013) Una veintena de agencias de las Naciones Unidas con representación en América Latina y el Caribe se dieron cita el jueves 24 de enero en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, para analizar la situación regional y la agenda de desarrollo de la ONU post 2015.
Al inicio de la reunión del Mecanismo de Coordinación Regional para América Latina y el Caribe, la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, dio la bienvenida a Jan Eliasson, Vicesecretario General de las Naciones Unidas, quien visita Chi…
El destacado Profesor de Economía estadounidense y Director del Programa de Ciencias del Comportamiento del Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, Nuevo México (Estados Unidos), Samuel Bowles, dictará una conferencia magistral en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, el próximo martes 13 de marzo.
En el marco de su visita a Chile, el Profesor Bowles ofrecerá una charla titulada “Los Orígenes y el Futuro de la Desigualdad Económica: Instituciones, Tecnología y Política” (The Origins and Future of Economic Inequality: Institutions, Technology and Pol…
Promover la inversión pública es crucial para sostener el crecimiento económico de la región, sostuvo la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, en Lima, Perú, donde participó en varios eventos de alto nivel.
Alicia Bárcena sustuvo una serie de entrevistas con autoridades de los ministerios de economía y finanzas de varios países de la región y acompañará hoy al Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Ban Ki-moon, en su visita al país para asistir a las reuniones anuales 2015 del Grupo Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internac…
(3 de febrero, 2011) La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, se reunió esta semana en Bruselas con altos funcionarios de la Unión Europea (UE) para intercambiar puntos de vista sobre cómo fortalecer el diálogo y la cooperación entre ambas regiones.
Durante su visita de tres días a la capital belga, sede de las principales instituciones de la UE, Bárcena sostuvo un encuentro con el Secretario General del Servicio Exterior Europeo, Pierre Vimont, donde se recalcó la importancia de renovar y fortalecer la relación estratégica inici…