Autoridades, peritos e acadêmicos de vários países da Ibero-América se reuniram em 1º e 2 de setembro na sede da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) em Santiago, Chile, para discutir os desafios da provisão pública e seu financiamento nos diversos níveis de governo da região e seu impacto sobre o desenvolvimento econômico, a igualdade e a coesão social e territorial.
Durante as IV Jornadas Ibero-Americanas de Financiamento Local foram apresentados 14 trabalhos de pesquisa (selecionados entre mais de 50 enviados inicialmente) relativos a temas das relações fiscais e fina…
This draft final assessment report presents an assessment of the Development Account project “Improving the Management of Resources for the Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean”. commissioned by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The report is made up of the following sections: Introduction, assessment management,findings and analysis. and lessons learnt, best practices and recommendations.…
Countries agreed on a series of bold measures to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic, social and environmental challenges at the United Nations Third International Conference on Financing for Development, being held in Addis Ababa.
The groundbreaking agreement, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, provides a foundation for implementing the global sustainable development agenda that world leaders are expected to adopt this September. The agreement was reached by the 193 UN Member States attending the Conference, following negotiations …
Los participantes en la Tercera Conferencia Internacional sobre Financiamiento para el Desarrollo alcanzaron el miércoles 15 de julio un acuerdo con las medidas y prácticas a seguir para generar inversiones que impulsen la agenda de desarrollo sostenible que regirá los próximos 15 años.
Los recursos se asignarán a los mayores desafíos económicos, sociales y ambientales que afronta la humanidad.
La Agenda de Acción de Addis Abeba es un acuerdo histórico que provee la base para implementar la agenda de desarrollo sostenible que los líderes mundiales adoptarían en septiembre próximo.
El d…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, today in Addis Ababa advocated boosting the mobilization of countries’ domestic resources to finance their development versus relying on flows that depend on external sources, such as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or Official Development Assistance (ODA).
The senior United Nations official spoke at a roundtable dedicated to analyzing policy coherence to ensure sustainable development, in the framework of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which is bein…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, abogó hoy en Addis Abeba por potenciar la movilización de recursos internos de los países para financiar su desarrollo frente a los flujos dependientes del exterior, que proceden, entre otras fuentes, de la inversión extranjera directa (IED) o de la ayuda oficial al desarrollo (AOD).
La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas intervino en una mesa redonda dedicada a analizar la coherencia de las políticas para asegurar un desarrollo sostenible, en el marco de la Tercera Conferencia Interna…
There is an urgent need to define new rules for financing sustainable development in the world, participants in the side event Regional Perspectives on Implementing an Ambitious, Transformative Sustainable Development Agenda agreed. The event was hosted on Tuesday, July 14 by the five United Nations regional commissions, of which ECLAC is one, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
During the event—which took place in the framework of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, being held through July 16 in Ethiopia—the U.S. economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz called for “…
Urge definir nuevas reglas para el financiamiento del desarrollo sostenible en el mundo, coincidieron los participantes en el evento paralelo Perspectives on Implementing an Ambitious, Transformative Sustainable Development Agenda (Perspectivas sobre la implementación de una agenda de desarrollo sostenible ambiciosa y transformadora), organizado el martes 14 de julio por las cinco comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas, entre ellas la CEPAL, en Addis Abeba, Etiopía.
Durante el evento, que tuvo lugar en el marco de la Tercera Conferencia Internacional sobre Financiamiento para el Desarrol…
Ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, along with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, agreed today during an event held in Addis Ababa on the need for global collective action to finance sustainable and inclusive development, within a framework such as that of the United Nations, where all voices may be heard.
This debate, dedicated to analyzing the domestic mobilization of resources and international financial governance from the perspecti…
Ministros y altos funcionarios de América Latina y el Caribe, junto al Premio Nobel de Economía Joseph Stiglitz y la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, coincidieron hoy, durante un evento celebrado en Addis Abeba, en la necesidad de una acción colectiva global para financiar un desarrollo sostenible e inclusivo, en un marco como el de las Naciones Unidas, donde todas las voces sean escuchadas.
El encuentro, dedicado a analizar la movilización doméstica de recursos y la gobernanza financiera internacional desde la perspectiva d…
La Tercera Conferencia Internacional sobre Financiamiento para el Desarrollo, que tendrá lugar del 13 al 16 de julio en Addis Abeba, brinda una oportunidad única para superar los desafíos que enfrentan los países de renta media, procurar un financiamiento eficaz en todos los niveles de ingreso y cumplir con las metas transformadoras de la agenda post-2015 y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) que se presentarán en septiembre en el marco de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas.
Para este fin, la arquitectura del financiamiento para el desarrollo deberá movilizar una gran ca…
Ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, along with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, will participate in an event on the challenges faced by the region to finance its development, in the framework of the international conference on this matter that will take place on July 13-16 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The event, which will address the domestic mobilization of resources and the international financial governance from the perspective of mi…
Ministros y altos funcionarios de América Latina y el Caribe, junto al Premio Nobel de Economía Joseph Stiglitz y la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, participarán en un evento sobre los desafíos que afronta la región para financiar su desarrollo, en el marco de la conferencia internacional sobre esta materia que tendrá lugar del 13 al 16 de julio en Addis Abeba, Etiopía.
El evento, que tratará sobre movilización doméstica de recursos y gobernanza financiera internacional desde la perspectiva de países de ingreso medio y pequ…
Your Excellency the Right Honourable Freundel Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados, and Chair of the Caribbean Community, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Members of the Cabinet, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to join all of you for this High Level Symposium on sustainable economic development in the Caribbean.
And it is a special honour to do so here.
For Small Island Developing States, this space is hallowed ground.
Twenty years ago, this very building was the site of the First Global Conference on SIDS that adopted the Barbado…
This is a year for global action, with international community in the final stretch of preparing a transformative post-2015 agenda for sustainable development that will be agreed in New York in September, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared in Bridgetown, where, two decades ago, the Barbados Programme of Action was adopted to tackle vulnerabilities facing small islands.
“I want to salute Caribbean countries for taking on ambitious renewable energy targets. By 2020, for example, Barbados will be one of the world's top five leading users of solar energy on a per capita basis. Y…
El Secretario General de la ONU se encuentra en Bridgetown, Barbados, para asistir a la inauguración de la 36 Cumbre de la Comunidad del Caribe (CARICOM).
En la mañana, Ban Ki-moon sostuvo un encuentro con el Primer Ministro y con la ministra de Relaciones Exteriores barbadense, Freundel Stuart y Maxine McClean, respectivamente, con quienes discutió sobre el cambio climático y las iniciativas que el país ha aplicado en materia de energías renovables.
También participó en un simposio donde felicitó a los Estados de la región por sus avances en la aplicación de las energías renovables y los inst…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean remains committed to providing assistance to Caribbean countries, as the region prepares a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be included in the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda, declared today its Director, Diane Quarless.
The head of the ECLAC Caribbean office opened the Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, organized by the UN Commission, with the support of …
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean will convene a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Caribbean within the post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 24-25 June.
This meeting, supported by the Caribbean Development Bank, brings together Ministers and senior policy makers in the fields of planning and development, the environment, and social affairs, to consider among the SDGs those goals that are central to the sustainable development needs of the Caribbean.
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