Provisional agenda. Sixty-first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Fifty-sixth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Agreements. Third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Agreements. Second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Report of the Tenth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

Report of the Ninth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

Thirty-third Board of Presiding Officers Meeting to be held in Port-of-Spain

"Declaration of Panama" Reaffirms Latin America and the Caribbean Official's Commitment to Reduce Inequalities

Ciudad de Panamá, 13 de septiembre de 2018 – Dos vicepresidentas y cerca de 40 ministros de América Latina y el Caribe se comprometieron a tomar medidas concretas para reducir las desigualdades estructurales que continúan impidiendo que muchos participen en las sociedades de manera significativa. Las autoridades de 20 países acordaron la ¨Declaración de Panamá” al cerrar el X Foro Ministerial para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe (undp.org/forolac) Alianzas para la reducción de desigualdades estructurales en el marco de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), 12-13 de septiemb…

ECLAC supports training Uruguayan government officials on Computable General Equilibrium Models

With support from the Uruguay office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the first of two workshops aimed at training government officials in the theory and practice of Computable General Equilibrium Models (CGEM) took place at the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Montevideo from Thursday, June 6 to Tuesday, June 11. This tool allows for building equation systems that link merchandise markets, economic activities, production factors, institutions and foreign relations, in an integrated framework. They are based on Social Accounting Matrixes, and their …

Public Officials from Uruguay Receive Training on National Accounts and Social Outlays

Public officials from diverse entities in Uruguay participated, from June 11 to 14, in a course about National Accounts and Social Outlays organized by the office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Montevideo in the framework of a cooperation agreement with that country’s Ministry of Social Development. The course was led by ECLAC’s Regional Adviser on Economic Statistics, Federico Dorín. His objective was to train participants in the measurement of social outlays based on information from the national accounts system, incorporating not just information f…

Government Officials and Experts to Analyze Contribution of Information Technologies to Social Development

(15 October 2010) The contribution that information and communications technologies (ICTs) can make to social development, especially in the fields of education and health, will be examined during an international seminar to be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile on Wednesday, 20 October. The seminar Social Policies and the Information Society: Gaps, Opportunities and Rights is organized by ECLAC's Social Development Division with the support of the European Union through its cooperation initiative LIS. The event will discuss the most significant ICT issues and their contribution to …

United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston Meets with ECLAC Officials

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, visited today the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, where he had meetings with various officials from the regional organization. Alston, an Australian, was welcomed by ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, on behalf of the Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena. His agenda included meetings with ECLAC’s experts on poverty, inequality, education and social protection. ECLAC is one of the five United Nations regional commissions…

Senior Government Officials Address Sustainable Development Priorities of the Caribbean

“The challenge facing the Caribbean is to identify paths to development that emphasize macroeconomic stability with growth, equity, and environmental sustainability. This will provide a bulwark against external shocks and the protection necessary for those that are most vulnerable”, Mr. Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, said during the opening of the 26th session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), held in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis on 22 April 2016. Addressing senior policy makers from across the subregion, Diane Quarless, Director of ECLAC …

Official development assistance, social capital and growth in Latin America

This study focuses on the relationship among official development assistance (ODA), social capital and economic growth in Latin American countries, attempting to determine whether the impact of such assistance on growth is conditional on the receiving country’s stock of social capital. To this end, we use “trust” to measure social capital in an unbalanced panel of 18 Latin American countries over the period 2001-2010. After accounting for country and time effects in a dynamic panel data model, our results show that the impact of ODA on growth is indeed conditional on the level of trust that ex…

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Made Official Visit to Cuba

(April 30, 2015) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, ended today a four-day official visit to Cuba, where she met with senior authorities from that country and participated in a seminar on the economic development of Latin America and the Caribbean island. Bárcena held a conversation with Cuban President Raúl Castro, in which she reaffirmed ECLAC’s full willingness to continue accompanying the country’s process to bring its economic model up to date. During the talk, she also acknowledged the achievements made in Cuba.…

Timely Disaster Training for Tobago Officials

With the “rainy” season in Trinidad and Tobago already beginning, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean took its Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology training to Tobago from 23-25 May 2018. Some of the areas that were covered over the three days included an introduction and basic concepts of the Disaster Assessment Methodology, the role of planning in disaster risk management and its impact on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), how the population can be affected, and how areas such …