Welcome Remarks
Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado
18th Monitoring Committee of the CDCC
Port of Spain, 19 May 2017
His Excellency, Mark Brantley, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation of Saint Kitts and Nevis and Chair of the CDCC,
Honourable Ministers and other Distinguished Representatives of CDCC Member Countries,
Representatives of regional and international organizations,
Members of the diplomatic corps,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to be here with you once again in beautiful Port of Spain. I bring to you the warm greetings of our Executive Secretary Ali…
Evolving Development thinking and practices in
Latin America and the Caribbean: The role of ECLAC
Keynote Address by Dr Antonio Prado
Deputy Executive Secretary
18th CDCC Monitoring Committee
Port of Spain, 19 May 2017
I thank Diane for that very fitting introduction to my presentation here this morning. We have begun considering how best to commemorate 70 years of ECLAC’s work as a Regional Commission of the United Nations. As you have just seen, our support for development in the region has taken many different forms. However it is safe to say that our principal contri…
To support national efforts on development financing, it is time to definitively move beyond the dichotomy of donor-receiver and the criteria of per capita income in the allocation of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and advance toward a new model that takes into account, for example, the needs of middle-income countries, a category that encompasses 85% of Latin American and Caribbean nations, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today in Brussels.
Bárcena participated this Thursday in a seminar entitled Next step…
Para apoyar los esfuerzos nacionales en el financiamiento del desarrollo es hora de superar definitivamente la dicotomía donante-receptor y el criterio de ingreso per cápita en la asignación de ayuda oficial al desarrollo (AOD) y avanzar hacia un nuevo modelo que dé cuenta, por ejemplo, de las necesidades de los países de renta media, categoría en la que se encuentra el 85% de los países latinoamericanos y caribeños, planteó hoy en Bruselas Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
Bárcena participó este jueves en el seminario titula…
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), met on Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium with Neven Mimica, the European Union Commissioner in charge of International Cooperation and Development, agreeing to renew the strategic alliance between ECLAC and the European Commission to support dialogue and bi-regional cooperation, particularly in light of the challenges posed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
At the beginning of her official visit to Brussels, which ends on Friday, Bárcena met with officials from the European Co…
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), se reunió este miércoles en Bruselas, Bélgica, con Neven Mimica, Comisario de Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo de la Unión Europea, con quien acordó renovar la alianza estratégica entre la CEPAL y la Comisión Europea para apoyar el diálogo y la cooperación birregional de cara, especialmente, a los retos que plantea la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible.
En el inicio de su visita oficial a Bruselas, que concluye el viernes, Bárcena se reunió con funcionarios de la Dirección Gener…
Only by combining initiatives and efforts will the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean be able to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), since what is needed is global governance and new partnerships between States, their citizens and the private sector. In responding to that imperative, South-South cooperation can and must make a significant contribution, says the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Daniel Titelman, the Director of the Economic Development Division of ECLAC, representing the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Regional Co…
Solo sumando iniciativas y esfuerzos, los países de América Latina y el Caribe podrán alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), pues lo que se requiere es una gobernanza global y nuevas coaliciones entre los Estados, la ciudadanía y el sector privado. Frente a esta necesidad la cooperación Sur-Sur puede y debe ser un aporte significativo, sostiene la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
El Director de la División de Desarrollo Económico de la CEPAL, Daniel Titelman, inauguró este martes 25 de abril de 2017 la Sexta Reunión de la Mesa Directiva del Comité de…
“Public universities are tangible proof that free and quality education can go hand in hand, that public is not at the expense of excellence, that democracy can and should be the basis of harmonious coexistence in the pursuit of knowledge,” said Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, in her keynote speech for the start of the academic year at the University of Chile, the first state university in the country, founded in 1842.
During the event held at the institution’s main building in Santiago, remarks were also made by Chile’s Minister of Public Works, Alberto Undurraga, on behalf of Pr…
“Las universidades públicas son la demostración palpable de que la gratuidad y la calidad pueden ir de la mano, de que lo público no riñe con la excelencia, de que la democracia puede y debe ser fundamento de la convivencia en las aventuras del conocimiento”, dijo hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, durante una conferencia magistral ofrecida en la inauguración del año académico de la estatal Universidad de Chile, la primera fundada en el país, en 1842.
En la actividad, realizada en la Casa Central de la institución en Santiago, también intervinieron el Ministro de Obras …
The first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, created in 2016, will be held on April 26-28 in Mexico City, Mexico, under the sponsorship of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The objective is to assess regional implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The event will be attended by representatives of governments, the United Nations, international financial institutions and development banks, regional and subregional integration organizations, civil society, the parliamentary…
La primera reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible, creado en 2016, se realizará del 26 al 28 de abril en Ciudad de México, México, bajo los auspicios de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). El objetivo es analizar la implementación regional de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible.
Participarán representantes de gobiernos, del sistema de las Naciones Unidas, de instituciones financieras internacionales y bancos de desarrollo, de organismos de integración regional y subregional, de la sociedad civil, del mundo…
A primeira reunião do Fórum dos Países da América Latina e do Caribe sobre o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, criado em 2016, será realizada de 26 a 28 de abril na Cidade do México, México, sob os auspícios da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL). O objetivo é analisar a implementação regional da Agenda 2030 para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável.
Participarão representantes de governos, do Sistema das Nações Unidas, de instituições financeiras internacionais e bancos de desenvolvimento, de organismos de integração regional e sub-regional, da sociedade civil, parlamentares, da a…
La CEPAL impulsa la creación de un mercado digital regional en América Latina y el Caribe para apuntalar el crecimiento y la productividad, aprovechando las economías de escala.…
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), called for promoting intraregional productive integration and public-private partnerships as instruments of development, rather than of privilege, within frameworks of governance and transparency, during the XVI Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Tuxtla Dialogue and Agreement Mechanism in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Bárcena presented the main findings of the study Public-Private Partnerships as an Instrument for Strengthening the Objectives of the Mesoamerican Project to the presid…
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), llamó hoy, durante la XVI Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno del Mecanismo de Diálogo y Concertación de Tuxtla en San José, Costa Rica, a impulsar la integración productiva intrarregional y las asociaciones público-privadas como instrumentos de desarrollo, y no de privilegios, bajo esquemas de gobernanza y transparencia.
Bárcena expuso los principales resultados del estudio Asociaciones público-privadas como instrumento para fortalecer los objetivos del Proyecto Mesoamérica ante los mand…
The Government of Mexico is to host the first meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development. Mexico’s Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, today announced the details of the meeting, which will take place on 26 to 28 April and which will provide a regional political mechanism for discussing the region’s development strategies going forward to 2030.
The announcement was made by the two …
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