Welcome Remarks
Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado
18th Monitoring Committee of the CDCC
Port of Spain, 19 May 2017
His Excellency, Mark Brantley, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Aviation of Saint Kitts and Nevis and Chair of the CDCC,
Honourable Ministers and other Distinguished Representatives of CDCC Member Countries,
Representatives of regional and international organizations,
Members of the diplomatic corps,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to be here with you once again in beautiful Port of Spain. I bring to you the warm greetings of our Executive Secretary Ali…
Evolving Development thinking and practices in
Latin America and the Caribbean: The role of ECLAC
Keynote Address by Dr Antonio Prado
Deputy Executive Secretary
18th CDCC Monitoring Committee
Port of Spain, 19 May 2017
I thank Diane for that very fitting introduction to my presentation here this morning. We have begun considering how best to commemorate 70 years of ECLAC’s work as a Regional Commission of the United Nations. As you have just seen, our support for development in the region has taken many different forms. However it is safe to say that our principal contri…
At the 18th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 19 May 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s (ECLAC’s) contribution to development in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last 70 years was recognized.
Speaking about ECLAC’s contribution to development in the region during the opening ceremony, ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, underscored that: “ECLAC has never abandoned its structural roots and issues of structural heterogeneity, th…
En la Decimoctava Reunión del Comité de Monitoreo del Comité de Desarrollo y Cooperación del Caribe (CDCC), celebrada en Puerto España, Trinidad y Tabago, el 19 de mayo de 2017, se reconoció la contribución al desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe que ha hecho la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) a lo largo de los últimos 70 años.
Al referirse a la contribución de la CEPAL al desarrollo en la región durante la ceremonia de inauguración, el Secretario Ejecutivo Adjunto de este organismo, Antonio Prado, subrayó que: “La CEPAL nunca ha abandonado sus raíces estructura…
To support national efforts on development financing, it is time to definitively move beyond the dichotomy of donor-receiver and the criteria of per capita income in the allocation of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and advance toward a new model that takes into account, for example, the needs of middle-income countries, a category that encompasses 85% of Latin American and Caribbean nations, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said today in Brussels.
Bárcena participated this Thursday in a seminar entitled Next step…
Para apoyar los esfuerzos nacionales en el financiamiento del desarrollo es hora de superar definitivamente la dicotomía donante-receptor y el criterio de ingreso per cápita en la asignación de ayuda oficial al desarrollo (AOD) y avanzar hacia un nuevo modelo que dé cuenta, por ejemplo, de las necesidades de los países de renta media, categoría en la que se encuentra el 85% de los países latinoamericanos y caribeños, planteó hoy en Bruselas Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
Bárcena participó este jueves en el seminario titula…
“The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have a historic opportunity to strengthen ties with China and the rest of the Asian economies, and the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation offers us a civilizing proposal of interconnectedness and shared prosperity,” Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, said in Beijing during the high-level meeting that took place in the Chinese capital on May 14-15.
Bárcena headed the delegation of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at this international summit, attended by around 1,500 delegates from mor…
“Los países de América Latina y el Caribe tienen una oportunidad histórica para estrechar lazos con China y el resto de las economías asiáticas, y el Foro de la Franja y Ruta para la Cooperación Internacional nos entrega una propuesta civilizatoria de conectividad y prosperidad compartida”, señaló Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, en Beijing durante la reunión de alto nivel que se desarrolló en la capital china del 14 al 15 de mayo.
Bárcena encabezó la delegación de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en esta cumbre internacional en la que participaron…
The average rate of urban unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean will rise again in 2017 to 9.2%, in a year characterized by modest economic growth that will not be sufficient to counteract the labour market’s weak conditions, according to a new report released today by ECLAC and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
In the new edition of their joint publication Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean, which analyzes the regional labour market’s performance in 2016, the two organizations indicate that last year the urban unemployment rate rose to 8.9% from 7.3% …
La tasa promedio de desempleo urbano de América Latina y el Caribe volverá a aumentar en 2017 a 9,2%, en un año marcado por un modesto crecimiento económico que no será suficiente para contrarrestar las condiciones de debilidad del mercado laboral, según un nuevo informe dado a conocer hoy por la CEPAL y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT).
En la nueva edición de su publicación conjunta Coyuntura Laboral en América Latina y el Caribe, que analiza el desempeño del mercado laboral regional en 2016, los dos organismos señalan que en ese año la tasa de desempleo urbano aumentó a 8,9% …
A daunting challenge faced by financial institutions
in the Caribbean in recent years is the growing trend
being adopted by large global banks that serve as
correspondent banks to local financial institutions, to
severely limit or terminate their correspondent banking
relationships (CBRs) with these local or regional banks
(respondent banks). This practice is considered a form
of “de-risking”, whereby business relationships with
clients or categories of clients considered “high-risk”
are restricted or terminated. So far, financial institutions
in 12 Caribbean countries have had the CBRs of at …
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, received today in Mexico City the “Gustavo Martínez Cabañas” Medal for International Administrative Merit, awarded by Mexico’s National Institute of Public Administration (INAP).
This important distinction, which is given in recognition of a prominent Mexican whose performance in the national and international arena has allowed for the country’s prestige to be strengthened abroad, was awarded to her during a ceremony led by Carlos Reta Martínez, Chair of INAP’s Board, and Ambassador…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, recibió hoy en Ciudad de México la Medalla al Mérito Administrativo Internacional “Gustavo Martínez Cabañas”, otorgada por el Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública de México (INAP).
La importante distinción, que se otorga en reconocimiento a una mexicana o mexicano destacado cuyo desempeño en el ámbito nacional e internacional ha permitido fortalecer el prestigio del país en el exterior, le fue entregada en una ceremonia encabezada por Carlos Reta Martínez, Presidente del Consejo Di…
This paper examines if recent sharp declines in the price of oil and other fossil fuels will discourage private investment in renewable energy, which is key for climate change mitigation. The increase in private renewables investment in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region have been driven by sharp declines in costs alongside supportive policies.
The sharp fall in the price of oil and other fossil fuels since 2014 risks disrupting continued private investment in renewables if they becomes insufficiently profitable. The decline in oil and other fossil fuel prices presents an opportu…
As a preliminary phase of action in response to the ECLAC resolution which calls for greater inclusion of the associate members in the work of the Commission, this study sought to accomplish three outcomes. Firstly, the study explored the common development challenges of the non-sovereign associate members (AMs) of ECLAC which served as impediments to the economic and social development of the AMs, and identified priorities which fostered and advanced their development aspirations. Secondly, in light of the recent incremental changes in the political status that had occurred in many of those t…
El objetivo de este estudio es aportar evidencia sobre la importancia de la estructura productiva para entender el nivel y la dinámica de la distribución del ingreso entre el capital y el trabajo. Por un lado, procura entender en qué medida las diferencias en la distribución funcional del ingreso que se evidencian entre los países de la región responden a factores propiamente distributivos y/o a la composición sectorial de la economía, donde conviven actividades con distintos grados de participación de los trabajadores en el valor agregado. Con ese objetivo se analiza la evolución reciente de …