This past February 8th 2024, Andres Valenciano, Chief of Washington Office, had the opportunity to participate on the Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future event at Georgetown University Law Center. The event was organized by Center on Inclusive Trade and Development co-led by Jennifer Hillman and Katrin Kuhlmann.…
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SPPN Annual Meetings: Georgetown University…
How can trade and trade-related policy tools contribute to a just, climate resilient, low-carbon energy transition? Which goods, services and technologies can support efforts to increase the proportion of renewable sources in national energy mixes? · What trade-related measures have Members taken? What kind of approaches have worked? What are the specific opportunities and challenges faced by developing countries? · What is the WTO’s role in promoting these tools and providing an institutional framework? · From a business perspective, what are the main trade-related opp…
The event seized the opportunity of being back-to-back with the Regional LAC Platform of Ministers of Finance to address common interests in the private and public sectors working together for further greening of the financial system.…
A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) e o Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) realizam o Seminário IPEA-CEPAL: 50 Anos de Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento, no dia 21 de novembro de 2024 em Brasília, DF. O seminário tem a finalidade de celebrar a frutífera e quinquenária Cooperação IPEA-CEPAL, a partir da discussão dos grandes marcos dessa cooperação histórica. Por outro lado, o seminário buscará, com base nos aprendizados que a cooperação permitiu gerar e nos grandes temas do Século XXI, discutir as perspectivas futuras para que a cooperação IPEA-CEPAL…
Labour productivity has been on a declining trend in the Caribbean. An examination of this trend revealed a growing concern of skills mismatch in the labour market. At the same time, youth unemployment is high in many countries, with young women and girls twice as likely not to be in education, employment or training. These are troubling signs for human capital formation at a time when Caribbean economies are experiencing low growth, and the global economy is becoming increasingly knowledge based.…
Un curso sobre el papel fundamental que blockchain está teniendo y tendrá en la facilitación del comercio. Descubra cómo esta tecnología, junto con la digitalización y la automatización, optimiza la eficiencia de la cadena de suministro.…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…
Los días 3 y 4 de septiembre de 2025 se realizará en Asunción (Paraguay) la decimocuarta versión de las Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Financiación Local (XIV-JIFL) organizadas por la Asociación Iberoamericana de Financiación Local (AIFIL), la Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL), la División de Gestión Fiscal del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas de Paraguay y la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA).…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) celebró el Taller técnico regional sobre gastos tributarios los días 16 y 17 de octubre de 2024 en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago de Chile. Este taller contó con el apoyo de la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), y con el apoyo financiero del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo (BMZ) de Alemania.…
The overall objective of this regional workshop is to train staff from the statistical offices of Jamaica and Belize in the use of REDATAM for the development of web applications for online dissemination of census and survey microdata. With follow-up support from ECLAC to be provided as necessary, the two statistical offices will then use REDATAM for online dissemination of their 2022 census data.…
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