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Selected online learning experiences in the Caribbean during COVID-19. Policy Brief

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …

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Argentina’s President Advocates for Uniting Latin America and the Caribbean and Strengthening Multilateralism to Build Fairer and More Egalitarian Societies

The President of the Argentine Republic, Alberto Fernández, delivered a virtual keynote lecture this Wednesday, January 27, from the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, in which he advocated for the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean and for strengthening multilateralism to build fairer and more egalitarian societies. The Argentine leader spoke during a high-level event in which Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, also participated along with Ennio Vivaldi, Rector of the University of Chile. Attending the lectur…

Presidente de Argentina aboga por la unidad de América Latina y el Caribe y el fortalecimiento del multilateralismo para construir sociedades más justas e igualitarias

El Presidente de la República Argentina, Alberto Fernández, dictó este miércoles 27 de enero una conferencia magistral virtual desde la sede la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, en donde abogó por la unidad de América Latina y el Caribe y el fortalecimiento del multilateralismo para construir sociedades más justas e igualitarias. El Mandatario argentino expuso en un evento de alto nivel en el que intervinieron también Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, y Ennio Vivaldi, Rector de la Universidad de Chile. Asistieron a la conferencia los…

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Report of the twenty-eighth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

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Advancing the Decade of Action for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean

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CEPAL Review no. 128

Monetary regimes and labour institutions: an alternative interpretation of the downward trend in exchange-rate pass-through in peripheral countries / Martín Cherkasky and Martín Abeles . -- Models of the developmental state / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira .-- The development of venture capital in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative perspective / Ernesto H. Stein and Rodrigo A. Wagner .-- The heterogeneity of effects of preschool education on cognitive outcomes in Latin America / Juan Antonio Dip and Luis Fernando Gamboa .-- Economic growth and financial development in Brazil: a flexib…

Revista CEPAL no. 128

Alicia Bárcena: The Conversation Must Change between Governments, the Private Sector and Civil Society to Meet the SDGs

“The conversation between governments, business and civil society must change. All actors must have a dialogue about what sectors and economic activities can take us more quickly toward fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda,” sustained Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Thursday, July 18 in New York. Bárcena offered closing remarks at the event Global Compact Network: Making global goals global business, organized by the United Nations Global Compact and the permanent missions of Argentina and Lebanon to the United Nations, on…

La conversación entre gobiernos, sector privado y sociedad civil debe cambiar para lograr los ODS: Alicia Bárcena

“La conversación entre los gobiernos nacionales, las empresas y la sociedad civil debe cambiar. Todos los actores deben dialogar sobre cuáles son los sectores y las actividades económicas que pueden llevarnos más rápidamente al cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030”, sostuvo este jueves 18 de julio en Nueva York Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). Bárcena ofreció palabras de cierre en el evento Redes del Pacto Mundial: Haciendo de las metas globales negocios locales, organizado por el Pacto Mundial de las Naciones Unidas y las misione…

Mainstreaming youth in sustainable development

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Sustainable Development Goals implementation in the Caribbean