(16 February 2011) During a two days visit to Ecuador and Peru, which concluded yesterday night, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, called on both South American countries to further strengthen their democratic institutions and extend the benefits of development to the most disadvantaged populations, including indigenous peoples.
Officials accompanying Ban Ki-moon included the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Oscar Fernández-Taranco, as well as other senior UN representatives.
In Quito, the UN Se…
Senior government authorities from Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions of the world, along with officials and experts from the United Nations System, international and regional organizations, the private sector, academia and civil society will gather at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on March 31-April 4 at the eighth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development to review the progress and challenges related to achieving the 2030 Agenda in the region – five years ahead of the deadline set for its fulfillment.
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January 12, 2021, New York City, USA – Today is the start of the 12th Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean- a three day virtual meeting where global and regional sustainable development experts and top government officials come together to discuss the way forward for development in the region beyond OVID-19 response and recovery.
The 2020 Ministerial Forum, “Beyond Recovery. Towards a new social contract for LAC” will focus on three critical areas for development moving forward: strengthened social protection and fiscal systems; inclusive digital transformation;…
Deepening regional integration must be an essential component of any strategy for emerging from the crisis produced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in order to move towards more sustainable and resilient trade. This entails strengthening our own production linkages and promoting intraregional trade, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated today.
The senior United Nations official spoke during the LVI Ordinary Meeting of MERCOSUR’s Common Market Council, in which the Foreign Ministers of the four countries that mak…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, emphasized the value of the regional dimension of sustainable development as a key bridge for connecting global processes to new realities on a national level in the context of the crisis produced by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), during a high-level meeting held today with United Nations member countries and senior officials.
Bárcena participated this Friday, May 22 in a session entitled “Unleashing the UN development system’s regional assets: the path forward” during the four…
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The expansion of global value chains (GVC) has opened new opportunities for economies in transition, which seek to expand and diversify their international trade and gain access to new technologies. However, the current pandemic has left the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in a very vulnerable position. Against this background, high-level officials from international organizations and regional integration mechanisms will address the following questions:
What is the state of intraregional trade within your integration mechanism? What weaknesses has the pandemic exposed?
What oppor…
On Friday, December 17th, 2021, the ECLAC Headquarter in Santiago in conjunction with the Caribbean ECLAC Headquarter in Port of Spain gave the Online Course: "Use and interpretation of trade indicators, including Input-Output analysis" for Central Bank economists and trade ministry officials from five Caribbean countries: Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Grenada and Dominica.
The workshop was conducted by José Durán Lima, Ira Ronzheimer, Daniel Díaz and Carlos Ludeña of the Regional Integration Unit of the International Trade and Integration …
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…
Senior authorities from the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico officially received today the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) prepared by the United Nations and coordinated by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the countries’ request to address the structural causes of irregular migration with a development and integration perspective, welcoming its initiatives and committing themselves to continue working to foster greater regional integration based on dialogue and cooperation.
The Comprehensive Development Plan for El Salvador, …
The Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development (RAISD) – approved in 2019 and the axes of which have become a priority during the COVID-19 crisis – can contribute to tackling the current emergency as well as to moving towards a transformative recovery with equality at the center, as Latin American and Caribbean countries exchange experiences and engage in solidarity-based cooperation among themselves, authorities and officials asserted on Wednesday, 13 January, during the Fourth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Ca…
The current crisis should serve as an opportunity to achieve broad social and political consensus to implement ambitious reforms through multilateral and regional cooperation, which would allow for achieving sustainable and egalitarian growth that can meet the heterogeneous needs of countries of all income levels, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), stated today.
The senior United Nations official spoke at a seminar entitled International financial cooperation amid the Latin American economic crisis, organized by EC…
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has exposed the economic model’s structural problems and the failings of social protection systems and welfare schemes. Hence, a “new normality” is not the way forward; we must rethink the development model and consolidate the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, leaving no one behind, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), sustained today.
The senior United Nations official held a virtual meeting with members of civil society from Latin America and the Cari…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, held on Friday a virtual extraordinary meeting with ambassadors and representatives from the permanent missions of 31 countries in the region to the United Nations, to inform them about the actions and proposals the organization has made recently in response to the crisis unleashed by COVID-19. On this occasion, the senior official presented the Gateway for Follow-up on the Sustainable Development Goals (https://agenda2030lac.org/en), which is the result of a joint effort by the Unit…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the world following the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic demands of us more cooperation and regional integration, more multilateralism, new strategic sectors and greater productive integration, along with a universal social protection scheme with a basic income, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), sustained today.
The senior United Nations official led a virtual extraordinary meeting of the Practice Community of the region’s countries that will be presenting in 2020 their volun…
At this time of pandemic provoked by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the need for international cooperation is more urgent on the fiscal side. For that reason, international financial organizations should grant favorable financing conditions to middle-income countries, with low-cost credit lines and debt relief, sustained Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
The senior United Nations official participated today in a virtual seminar entitled How to face the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America, organized by Spanish instituti…
(September 25, 2014) The Brazilian poet Thiago de Mello called on people throughout Latin America to work for cultural integration during a talk he gave on Wednesday, September 24, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
"I call on everyone, and particularly the ECLAC, to participate in working towards the cultural integration of all of our peoples, because we still don't know each other well," the prominent artist said to an audience of special guests that included scholars, officials from international organizations, dipl…
(8 March 2012) The visit of the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Bárcena to Quito ended last night, during which she held a meeting with the President of the Republic of Ecuador Rafael Correa, signing a cooperation agreement with the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).
During her interview with President Rafael Correa at Carondelet Palace, the seat of the Government of Ecuador, the UN High Level Official revised the cooperation programme that ECLAC is conducting together with the Government of Ecuador, as well as joint init…
(14 November 2011) The Sixth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC (SCA-ECLAC) will talk place in Bávaro, Dominican Republic, from 16 to 18 November 2011 during which authorities and experts will analyse various issues relating to the development of statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean.
During the meeting, ministers, directors of national statistical offices, officials from other public institutions and central banks, and specialists from international organizations will focus discussions on the development of environmental statistics, the 2010 round of popul…
(15 April 2010) Government officials and experts from 19 member countries of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from the Americas and Europe will meet in Santiago, Chile to examine the development of statistics in the region in censuses, Millennium Development Goals, gender and measuring poverty, among other areas.
During the Ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC (SCA-ECLAC), participants will review regional and international cooperation programmes on statistics during 2009-2011 and assess the activitie…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, concluded today a three-day official visit to Brazil, which included activities in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, where he met with high-level national authorities and participated in a seminar on Financing for the Big Push for Sustainability.
During his visit to Brasilia, Salazar-Xirinachs was received at the Palácio do Planalto by Geraldo Alckmin, the country’s Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services. At this meeting held on Wednesday, …