Quince oportunidades para el crecimiento, la colaboración y el desarrollo sostenible propuestas por la CEPAL

ECLAC Presents New Opportunities for Growth, Collaboration and Sustainable Development to Ibero-America’s Heads of State and Government

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented a document today to the Heads of State and Government of Ibero-America identifying 15 opportunities that hold great potential for promoting growth, creating employment and improving well-being in the region, through public policies, investment, public-private partnerships and international cooperation. The document entitled Ibero-America: A space of opportunities for growth, collaboration and sustainable development is a contribution by the United Nations regional commission to the debates of the XXVIII Ibero-America…

CEPAL presenta a Jefes y Jefas de Estado y de Gobierno de Iberoamérica nuevas oportunidades para el crecimiento, la colaboración y el desarrollo sostenible

La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) presentó a los Jefes y Jefas de Estado y de Gobierno de Iberoamérica un documento que identifica quince oportunidades que poseen gran potencial para promover el crecimiento, generar empleo y mejorar el bienestar en la región, mediante políticas públicas, inversiones, alianzas público-privadas y cooperación internacional. El documento Iberoamérica: espacio de oportunidades para el crecimiento, la colaboración y el desarrollo sostenible es una contribución de la Comisión regional de las Naciones Unidas a los debates de la XXVIII Cumbr…

Iberoamérica: espacio de oportunidades para el crecimiento, la colaboración y el desarrollo sostenible

El presente documento es una contribución de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) a los debates de la XXVIII Cumbre Iberoamericana de Jefes y Jefas de Estado y de Gobierno, que se llevará a cabo los días 24 y 25 de marzo de 2023 en Santo Domingo (República Dominicana). En el primer capítulo de esta publicación se presenta un panorama estilizado de las economías de Iberoamérica a partir de indicadores de población, territorio, producción, tasas de crecimiento, inflación y macroeconómicos. En el segundo, se analiza la coyuntura económica internacional, caracterizada por …

Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe 2022

En su edición 2022, el Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe examina el comportamiento de las economías de la región durante el presente año y actualiza las estimaciones de crecimiento y otros indicadores económicos que reflejan el impacto sufrido por los países de la región a raíz de la crisis del COVID-19 y su posterior recuperación. En particular, este informe anual presenta nuevas estimaciones del producto interno bruto (PIB) para la región y todos sus países en 2022 y proyecciones para 2023. El documento analiza la dinámica económica y social del año que recién…

Capital flows to Latin America and the Caribbean: 2022 year-in-review and early 2023 developments

Latin American and Caribbean issuers placed US$ 64 billion in bonds on international bond markets in 2022, the smallest annual amount since 2008. In January 2023, sovereign and corporate bond issuers from the region placed almost US$ 17 billion in international bonds, a sizable improvement from the last few months of 2022, but a weaker January issuance than in previous years. The region’s international bond issuance of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds followed the broader market trend of declining bond activity owing to worsening macroeconomic conditions. Th…

The Role of Data for SDG Advancement in the Caribbean

Claves de la CEPAL para el desarrollo Nº 14: Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe 2022

Los países de América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan un panorama económico desafiante en 2023. En el frente externo se espera una mayor desaceleración tanto del crecimiento como del comercio mundial, precios de productos básicos más bajos que en 2022 y condiciones financieras a nivel mundial que seguirán influidas por la aversión al riesgo y las políticas monetarias restrictivas en los países desarrollados.…

The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 2

ECLAC Proposes Cluster Policies to Escape the Current Low-Growth Trap in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, proposed cluster-based policies as a powerful instrument to promote growth and productive diversification to help pull the region out of the prolonged, development crisis that has impeded high, sustained and sustainable growth in the last decades, except in cases of price bonanzas in primary products. The United Nations senior official is in Davos, Switzerland for the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEF) from January 16-20. The 53rd edition brings together th…

CEPAL propone políticas de clusters para superar la trampa de bajo crecimiento en que se encuentra América Latina y el Caribe

El Secretario Ejecutivo de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, propuso la implementación de políticas basadas en clusters como instrumento poderoso para promover el crecimiento y la diversificación productiva, que ayuden a sacar a la región de la prolongada crisis de desarrollo que la caracteriza y que le ha impedido crecer de manera elevada, sostenida y sostenible en las últimas décadas, excepto cuando ha habido bonanzas en los precios de los productos primarios. El alto funcionario de las Naciones Unidas se encuentra en Davos, Suiza,…

A CEPAL propõe políticas de clusters para superar a armadilha de baixo crescimento em que se encontram a América Latina e o Caribe

O Secretário Executivo da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, propôs a implementação de políticas baseadas em clusters como instrumento poderoso para promover o crescimento e a diversificação produtiva, que ajudem a tirar a região da prolongada crise de desenvolvimento que a caracteriza e que a impediu de crescer de maneira elevada, sustentada e sustentável nas últimas décadas, exceto quando houve bonanças nos preços dos produtos primários. O alto funcionário das Nações Unidas participou na Reunião Anual 2023 do Fórum Econômico Mundial (W…

Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2021–2022

This overview examines the economic performance of economies of the Caribbean in 2021 and comprises four chapters. The first chapter provides a comparative analysis across Caribbean economies of the main macroeconomic variables, namely GDP growth, monetary indicators, as well as fiscal and external accounts. The second chapter concludes, while the annex includes individual country briefs that give an overview of the economic situation for the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and a subregional assessment of the countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currenc…

Report of the twenty-ninth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

United States economic outlook: third quarter of 2022

The United States economy grew by 2.9% in the third quarter of 2022, a sharp turnaround following two quarters of contraction. Trade was the main source of growth, followed by consumer spending. The labour market averaged 392,000 new jobs per month from January–November 2022, with 4.3 million new jobs created in the period. Inflation rose by 7.1% in November, the slowest 12-month pace since December 2021, closing out a year in which it climbed to the highest level in four decades. The rapid pace of price increases in 2022 added pressure on the Federal Reserve to tame inflation by raising inter…

United States Economic Outlook: Third Quarter 2022

United States economic outlook: third quarter of 2022 The United States economy rose 2.9% in the third quarter of 2022, a sharp turnaround following two quarters of contraction. Here is the economic outlook in five charts:…

Caribbean Outlook 3: Economic recovery and repositioning in the era of COVID-19. Policy Brief

The economies of the subregion were hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly those dependent on tourism. As a result, the Caribbean has seen a reversal of the hard-won gains achieved in growing their economies and reducing unemployment and inequality. The inflation stemming from pandemic supply chain disruption, which has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, has made the sustained uptick in economic performance beyond pre-pandemic levels unlikely, notwithstanding strong growth estimates for 2021 and 2022. The last two years have taught the region that continued ‘business as usual’ is…

The Hummingbird Vol. 10 No. 1

Revista CEPAL Nº 138

Documento actualizado el 15 de febrero de 2023.…

New Study by ECLAC Analyzes the Impacts of the War in Ukraine on Uruguay’s Economy

What impact has the war in Ukraine had on the Uruguayan economy? A new publication of the Studies and Perspectives Series of ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo analyzes these precise effects. The study entitled Economic Impacts of the War in Ukraine: A View from the Region and Uruguay (in Spanish only) verifies initially that this war represents a crisis of major proportions that overlaps with others that are also very significant, such as the financial crisis of 2008 and the pandemic crisis – which constitute what ECLAC has called a “cascade of crises.” As a result, the world and Latin America and …