El viernes 30 de agosto de 2024, en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe en Santiago, Chile, se efectuó la sesión de clausura de la 25ª versión del Programa de Estudios sobre Políticas del Desarrollo de la Escuela Latinoamericana de Estudios del Desarrollo (ELADES) de la CEPAL.
En esta edición del Programa –iniciada el 11 de julio- postularon 283 personas de 29 países del mundo. Las/os 28 estudiantes seleccionadas/os provinieron de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, España, Italia, México, Paraguay, República Dominicana y Uruguay.
Entre las act…
Caribbean governments need to proactively harness and adopt artificial intelligence technology in public sector organizations to create public value. Despite its numerous benefits, public sector organizations in the Caribbean are lagging in artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. AI is a disruptive technology that has become increasingly ubiquitous and pervasive in modern societies. Extremely transformative, they have advanced rapidly, and affect virtually every aspect of our existence, including the way we interact with and transact within society. AI has provided many benefits, which were pre…
Conferencias Magistrales 75º Aniversario de la CEPAL
Palabras de bienvenida de
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL
28 de septiembre, 2023 – Sala Raúl Prebisch, CEPAL, Santiago
Conferencista:
Ricardo Hausmann, Fundador y Director del Growth Lab de la Universidad de Harvard y Profesor de la Práctica de Economía Política Internacional del Harvard Kennedy School
“¿Cómo lograr crecimiento alto, sostenido, sostenible e inclusivo?”
Muy Buenos días.
Una muy cálida y cordial bienvenida para todas las personas presentes y conectadas virtualmente.…
The prominent economist and Professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Ricardo Hausmann, highlighted today the relationship between technology, knowledge, productive development and inequality in economies, in a keynote lecture given at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile as part of the Keynote Lecture Series organized to commemorate the United Nations regional commission’s 75th anniversary.
Hausmann, who is also the founder and Director of Harvard University’s Growth Lab, was received by José Manuel …
El reconocido economista y Profesor de la Escuela de Gobierno John F. Kennedy de Harvard, Ricardo Hausmann, destacó hoy la relación entre tecnología, conocimiento, desarrollo productivo y desigualdad en las economías, durante una conferencia magistral ofrecida en la sede principal de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, como parte del Ciclo de Conferencias Magistrales organizado para conmemorar el 75º aniversario de la comisión regional de las Naciones Unidas.
El también fundador y Director del Laboratorio de Crecimiento de la Universidad de H…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …
This brief is intended to provide general information on the upcoming United Nations Ocean Conference on scaling up ocean actions based on science and innovation for the
implementation of Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14), with a view to stimulating more active, engaged participation of the Caribbean in the discussions. The
United Nations Ocean Conference will be co-chaired by Kenya and Portugal, and hosted by the Government of Portugal in Lisbon, during 2021. The objective of this conference is consistent with the 2017 UN General Assembly proclamation on the Decade of Oce…