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Productive Development Policies are Key to a Better Production and Work Future and to Fostering Economies’ Global Integration

26 October 2023 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, participated on Thursday, October 26 in the “Dialogues on Uruguay’s Future,” where he reiterated the importance of Productive Development Policies (PDP) as catalysts for higher-quality international economic integration – especially in small economies – and for a better future in terms of production and work in the region’s countries. The senior United Nations official was one of the main speakers at the two events held in Montevideo in the framework of the “Dialogues …

The Green Transition and Productive Development Policies are Essential Elements for Changing the Region’s Development Model

23 March 2023 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, stressed today that the green transition and productive development policies are essential elements for an urgent and necessary change in the region’s development model, during one of the main sessions of the XIV Ibero-American Business Meeting, which is taking place in the Dominican Republic in the context of the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit 2023. The United Nations regional commission’s highest authority participated in a session entitled “The Public Viewpoint: Ibero…

New Report Calls on Government Leaders in Latin America to Advance Modern Industrial Strategies Oriented Around Climate and Inclusion Goals

25 October 2022 | News

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) of University College London (UCL), presented today a new report in which she addresses transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean, at a side event of the thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is taking place on October 24-26 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The document entitled Transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mission-oriented approach, which was commissioned by ECLAC, was unveiled at the …

Professor Mariana Mazzucato Will Present Policy Document for Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean

19 October 2022 | Announcement

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) of University College London (UCL), will present a new report in which she addresses transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean, at a side event of the thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place on October 24-26 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The document entitled Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Mission-Oriented Approach, which was commissioned by ECLAC, will be launched on Tue…

ECLAC Will Present a New Report Analyzing the War in Ukraine’s Socioeconomic Effects on Latin America and the Caribbean

31 May 2022 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Monday, June 6, a new policy brief in which it examines the economic and social impact of the war in Ukraine on the region, and offers countries recommendations on how to address its effects. The new document – entitled Repercussions in Latin America and the Caribbean of the war in Ukraine: how should the region face this new crisis? – analyzes economic and social variables as well as the different sectors of the regional economy that have been affected by the armed conflict that began in February of this yea…

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Will Present the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2021

24 August 2021 | Announcement

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, will present on Tuesday, August 31 the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2021: Labour dynamics and employment policies for sustainable and inclusive recovery beyond the COVID-19 crisis, one of the institution’s most important flagship annual reports, which takes stock of the region’s economies in the last year, especially regarding the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, and provides outlooks for 2021 and 2022. The latest iteration of this document – which has been publis…

School of Latin American Development Studies Kicks Off 2021 Activities with a Seminar on Geopolitics, Trade and Economic Integration

8 January 2021 | Announcement

ECLAC’s School of Latin American Development Studies will commence its activities in 2021 on Monday, January 11 with an inaugural seminar on geopolitics, trade and economic integration, which will be held virtually. This is the twenty-first session of the School, which has been bringing postgraduate students from across the world together every year since 2000 to study development-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The School convenes prominent experts and researchers from universities in Latin America, Europe and the United States to offer an analysis (one that is plural and…

Online Launch of the Latin American Economic Outlook 2020

21 September 2020 | Announcement

Digital transformation can be a way out of the economic and social crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Appropriate use of new technologies can help ease the burden of lockdown and social distancing by better connecting people, businesses, markets and institutions. It can also lay the ground for rebuilding more efficient economies, better public institutions and fairer societies. However, this will only be possible if governments work with the private sector and the international community to make the digital transformation work for all: large segme…

ECLAC Calls for a Renewed Dialogue between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean for a post COVID-19 Recovery with Equality and Sustainability

13 August 2020 | News

The United States and Latin America and the Caribbean need to establish a renewed dialogue to confront the challenges posed by the current crisis unleashed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and to thereby achieve a recovery with equality and environmental sustainability, Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, said today during a high-level virtual seminar with prominent specialists from the North American country. The event entitled “The United States and Latin America and the Caribbean: a dialogue towards recovery with sustainability and equality post COVID-19" was moderated by the …

ECLAC panel discussion explores innovative financing solutions for the Caribbean

7 May 2015 | News

ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado moderated the panel discussion entitled “Advocating innovative financing solutions” at the Forum on the Future of the Caribbean on Thursday 7 May 2015. The session, which examined opportunities that exist for domestic and international development financing for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), was considered especially timely given the upcoming United Nations Conference on Financing for Development being held in Addis Ababa in July. Mr. Prado outlined important areas of focus for countries of the region during the session, the firs…

ECLAC Deputy Executive Secretary opens Caribbean Future Forum

5 May 2015 | News

ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary Antonio Prado signaled that if the Caribbean is to achieve equitable growth in an environmentally sustainable manner, critical challenges will have to be addressed, the most urgent of these being the high and unsustainable levels of public debt. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Forum on the Future of the Caribbean at the University of the West Indies St Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago on 05 May 2015, Mr. Prado identified the subregion as one of the most debt-constrained in the world. Noting that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean …

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