“El Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible se ha consolidado como espacio para la concertación política entre los Estados Miembros y el aprendizaje entre pares. Es también un ejemplo de coordinación regional entre múltiples actores: los gobiernos, el sistema de las Naciones Unidas, el sector privado, el sector académico y la sociedad civil”, señaló hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, en un encuentro en Nueva York con representantes de los países de la región, en el marco del Foro Político de Alto Nivel que se desarrolla en la sede de l…
This paper asks whether tepid inflation in Canada since the financial crisis can in part be explained by the effects of monetary policy on inequality. Using different structural vector autoregression models we show that expansionary monetary policy post-crisis has offset otherwise falling inequality through the shifting of resources away from lower-income individuals, which in general have higher marginal propensities to consume. As a result, aggregate demand has not risen as much as it otherwise would have, leading to a more muted inflationary response. Our results suggest that failure to acc…
During a side event today to the 2019 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said that the 2030 Agenda is complex and that the support UN member States require to meet the Agenda’s goals must be integrated, coordinated and multilevel.
At the event entitled “Beyond July: an integrated support to member States in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda,” representatives of the governments of Chile, Guatemala and Guyana, along with resident coordinators of the…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, señaló hoy que la Agenda 2030 es compleja y el apoyo que los Estados Miembros de las Naciones Unidas requieren para cumplir sus metas debe ser integrado, coordinado y multinivel, durante un evento paralelo al Foro Político de Alto Nivel sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible 2019, que se realiza en Nueva York.
En el encuentro titulado “Más allá de julio: un apoyo integrado a los Estados miembros en la implementación de la Agenda 2030”, representantes de los gobiernos de Chile, Guatemala y Guyana, …
Alicia Bárcena, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), pointed out today at United Nations Headquarters in New York that progress toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda is limited and mixed in the different regions of the world and their fulfillment is at risk in some.
In her capacity as coordinator of the five UN regional commissions, the senior international official made a presentation on behalf of these regional bodies in the framework of the session on “Progress, gaps and obstacles: are we on trac…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, señaló hoy en la sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York que el progreso para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 es limitado y mixto en las distintas regiones del mundo y su cumplimiento está en riesgo en algunas de ellas.
En su calidad de coordinadora de las cinco comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas, la alta funcionaria internacional realizó una presentación en nombre de estos organismos regionales en el marco de la sesión “Progresos, brecha…
Highlights:
• In the first quarter of 2019, the U.S. economy grew at an above-trend annualized rate of 3.1%, despite the government shutdown and concerns about residual seasonality. Growth was driven by exports and a buildup in inventories.
• In May, U.S. employers added just 75,000 jobs, one of the smaller gains since the recession ended in mid-2009.
• U.S. consumer price inflation moderated in May, suggesting inflationary pressures remain muted. Over the last 12 months, the all items Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.8%. The core CPI was up 2.0%.
• The U.S. current account deficit fell to US…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, reaffirmed the importance of strengthening public revenue to have greater capacity to mobilize the domestic resources that allow for financing the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the region’s development needs, during the presentation of the report Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2019 that took place this Thursday, June 27, at the Center for Global Development, in Washington, D.C.
The United Nations regional organization’s …
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, reafirmó la importancia de fortalecer los ingresos públicos para tener mayor capacidad de movilizar recursos internos que permitan financiar el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 y los requerimientos de desarrollo de la región, durante la presentación del informe Panorama Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe 2019 realizada este jueves 27 de junio en el Centro para el Desarrollo Global, en Washington, Estados Unidos.
La máxima representante del or…
The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, concluded this Friday, June 21, a two-day visit to Spain, where she participated in two high-level events and held bilateral meetings with government authorities and officials from international cooperation bodies.
During these activities, the senior United Nations official insisted on the necessity of carrying out a new, inclusive cooperation model in which middle income countries can fully participate.
On Thursday, June 20, Bárcena led the presentation of the report Latin American …
