6 Jul 2021, 05:00 - 17:00
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Evento (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)
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 …
The Workshop "Use of the Andean Subregional MIP and the MIP of South America for the analysis of Value Chains" will take place in the city of Bogotá from March 26th to 28th.
This workshop, which will be taught by economists from the International Trade and Integration Division of ECLAC, is sponsored by the Andean Community and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia (MINCIT). Officials from different areas of MINCIT, the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), and the National Planning Department (DNP) will participate in the training, as well as delegates f…
In recent years, ECLAC has received official requests from governments in the region for technical assistance for designing and implementing industrial policies. In response, the Commission has developed and applied a methodology based on value chains, which has enabled it to identify targeted intervention strategies, with clear, coordinated lines of action.
Value chains can be strengthened by supporting all their stakeholders, especially small producers, which in turn helps to close structural gaps. In 2013, ECLAC worked jointly with governments and the private sector in Central America to st…
25 Jun 2018, 05:00 - 08:30
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
This seminar presented the methodology followed to assemble the 2005 Subregional South American Input Output Table (IOT), and the MERCOSUR Subregional IOT, 2005 and 2011 versions, as well as that of each corresponding national IOT. Likewise, ECLAC presented a set of results obtained from the MERCOSUR Subregional IOT, as well as methodological details that allow for the use of the South American and MERCOSUR IOTs as tools for economic analysis.
The seminar was held at the Central Bank of Paraguay with the participation of officials of the MERCOSUR Secretariat and various public entiti…
25 Ene 2019, 06:30 - 10:00
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Evento (Other events)
In December 2014, the Governments of the Republics of Guatemala and Honduras announced their willingness to advance in the deepening of the economic integration process, in accordance with the provisions of the Central American legal instruments.
The investment for the establishment of the Customs Union model between Guatemala and Honduras began in 2016, and the Customs Union between Guatemala and Honduras was officially launched on June 26, 2017. In 2018, El Salvador signed the Adhesion to the Process of Deep Integration towards the Free Transit of Goods and of Natural Persons between the Rep…
The region of Latin America and the Caribbean must decidedly make progress on economic integration and move towards an integrated space with common rules for trade and investment, Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today during a high-level conference held in Santiago, Chile.
The senior United Nations official was the keynote speaker during the first day of the 5th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Initiative for Policy Dialogue on Global Value Chains, Production Transformation and Development—a gathering organized by …
The workshop is structured in four blocks. Throughout the three days, the fundamentals of input-output analysis will be explained, and the calculation of indicators related to value chains, integration and value added will be demonstrated to enable participants to conduct economic analyses based on input output tables. The computational programs used will be Excel and Stata.
The workshop will be held at the Central Bank of Paraguay with the participation of officials of the MERCOSUR Secretariat and various public entities of Paraguay, including the Central Bank of Paraguay, Ministry …
6 Jul 2021, 06:00 - 08:25
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Evento (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)
As part of the month of Development in Transition: Dialogues to chart new paths for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, together with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission, organized the Event: Regional Integration for Economic Recovery. The panel was attended by a group of high-level officials from international organisations and regional integration mechanisms in the Americas and the Caribbean.
The specialists who participated in the event made an urgent call to boost regional integration to achieve a transformative recovery after th…
The workshop "Use of the MERCOSUR and South American Input-Output Tables for the Analysis of Value Chains" will be held In the city of Montevideo between May 13 and 15th, 2019.
This workshop, which will be taught by economists from the International Trade and Integration Division of ECLAC, is sponsored by the MERCOSUR Secretariat. Officials from various public institutions of MERCOSUR member countries, mainly Ministries of Industry and Foreign Trade, Production, and Foreign Affairs, among others, as well as officials and technicians of the MERCOSUR Secretariat will participate in the…
A workshop on Economic Analysis Using Input-Output Matrices was held from August 23 to 25, 2017 in Quito, Ecuador. The workshop reviewed fundamental methods in the analysis of input-output matrices and integrated practical examples to support the work of public officials in the countries of the Andean Community (CAN). Participants in the workshop included public officials from central banks and statistical institutes of the countries of the Andean Community, as well as officials from various institutions in Ecuador (Central Bank of Ecuador, Ministry of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Tourism, Natio…