The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) expects economic growth in the region to continue to decline, due to an international context of greater uncertainty and complexity, and weak performance by investment, exports and consumption.
This is the outlooks of the annual Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2019, announced today by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, at a press conference in Santiago, Chile.
According to the report, the region will grow this year by just 0.5%, a lower figure than the 0.9% regis…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) espera que durante 2019 el crecimiento económico de la región mantenga una trayectoria descendente, debido a un contexto internacional con mayores incertidumbres y complejidades, y a un débil comportamiento de la inversión, las exportaciones y el consumo.
Así lo señala el informe anual Estudio Económico de América Latina y el Caribe 2019, dado a conocer hoy por la Secretaria Ejecutiva del organismo de las Naciones Unidas, Alicia Bárcena, en una conferencia de prensa realizada en Santiago de Chile.
Según el reporte, la región …
A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) espera que durante 2019 o crescimento econômico da região mantenha uma trajetória descendente, devido a um contexto internacional com maiores incertezas e complexidades, e a um fraco desempenho do investimento, das exportações e do consumo interno.
Assim é indicado no relatório anual Estudo Econômico da América Latina e do Caribe 2019, divulgado hoje pela Secretária-Executiva do organismo das Nações Unidas, Alicia Bárcena, em uma coletiva de imprensa realizada em Santiago, Chile.
Segundo o relatório, a região crescerá esse ano some…
La comisión regional de las Naciones Unidas, a través del ILPES, ha sido parte de la secretaría técnica de la Red SNIP desde sus inicios y por más de 30 años ha apoyado a los países en el desarrollo de los Sistemas de Inversión en América Latina y el Caribe.…
The U.S. debt burden became heavier as a result of the unprecedented policy response to the global financial crisis and economic recession, and it has continued to grow. On March 11, the U.S. administration unveiled a US$ 4.75 trillion budget proposal that projects debt held by the public will hit US$ 22.8 trillion by 2025, more than 50% higher than in 2017, when debt held by the public was US$ 14.7 trillion. Regarding short-term prospects, total U.S. debt is expected to reach a statutory limit known as the “debt ceiling” later this year, which will require a congressional vote to raise the ce…
This article reviews the trend of investment in Chile and its relationship with economic growth since the 1973 coup d’état; and it documents how investment remains the main growth driver. Notwithstanding that fact, innovation helps to mitigate diminishing returns from natural resources, while technology-intensive investment, such as broadband infrastructure, helps to diversify the production matrix. The article shows how a persistent increase in the investment ratio in 1990–1998 supported GDP growth of 7.1% per year; but since 1999 investment has wavered, and average growth dropped to below 4%…
Se examina la evolución de la inversión en Chile y su vinculación con el crecimiento económico desde el golpe de Estado de 1973, documentándose cómo continúa siendo determinante principal del crecimiento. La innovación, por su parte, facilita la superación de rendimientos decrecientes de los recursos naturales; la inversión intensiva en tecnología, como la infraestructura de banda ancha, contribuye a diversificar la matriz productiva. Se expone cómo la persistente expansión de la tasa de inversión en 1990-1998 sustentó un crecimiento del PIB del 7,1% anual, pero desde 1999 la inversión experim…
Esse documento foi produzido a partir das contribuições de especialistas brasileiros e latino-americanos em desenvolvimento sustentável, incluindo formuladores governamentais de políticas públicas, pesquisadores e representantes da sociedade civil e do setor privado. Essas contribuições foram recebidas no seminário “O Big Push Ambiental no Brasil: opções para a transformação social e ecológica da economia brasileira”, realizado no dia 6 de novembro de 2018, em parceria entre a CEPAL, o Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos (CGEE) e a Fundação Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).…
Due to historically low internal saving rates, access to external financing is very important to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), even more so in the context of the 2030 Agenda and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Public financing falls short of what is needed for this task and must be complemented with private flows, which in fact make up the bulk of the region’s external financing. The credit quality of the sovereigns in the region has an important role in determining how costly the access to private external financing can be.
This report examines the his…
The 2018 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, its seventieth issue, consists of three parts. Part I outlines the region’s economic performance in 2017 and analyses trends in the early months of 2018, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. It examines the external and domestic factors that have influenced the region’s economic performance, analyses the characteristics of economic growth, prices and the labour market, and draws attention to some of the macroeconomic policy challenges of the prevailing external conditions, amid mounting uncertainty stemming…
En su edición correspondiente a 2018, el Estudio Económico de América Latina y el Caribe presenta una síntesis del desempeño de la economía regional durante 2017 un análisis de la evolución durante los primeros meses de 2018, así como las perspectivas para el año en su conjunto. Se examinan los factores externos e internos que han incidido en el desempeño económico de la región, se analizan las características del crecimiento económico, la evolución de los precios y del mercado laboral, y se destacan las características y algunos de los desafíos para las políticas macroeconómicas en un context…
Desde el 8 al 10 de octubre se celebró en Buenos Aires, Argentina, la reunión anual del programa EUROCLIMA+ de la Unión Europea para promover el desarrollo sostenible y resiliente al cambio climático en 18 países de América Latina, el cual es implementado coordinadamente por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la Comisión Europea y seis agencias internacionales de cooperación.
El encuentro se enfocó en revisar el avance de los proyectos financiados por el programa y analizar las acciones que se están ejecutando en la región para el cumplimento de los compromisos adqu…
Equality is the basis of development and plays an instrumental role as the driver of sustainable development, contributing to innovation, increased productivity and environmental sustainability, according to Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), who spoke today at a conference held in Mexico.
Bárcena offered a keynote presentation in Mexico City, at the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), to share the main conclusions of ECLAC’s institutional document entitled The Inefficiency of Inequalit…