With the aim of contributing to broadening and deepening discussions regarding the global crisis and its effects on and prospects for recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean, the CEPAL Review has edited a special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic, which will be unveiled next Thursday, April 29, during a webinar that will include a virtual dialogue with authors of the articles to be published in this distinctive edition.
The event entitled “COVID-19 and the socioeconomic crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean” will take place at 10 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT -4) and will be led by the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena. It will feature the participation of prominent scholars and specialists, among them Mario Cimoli, ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary; José Antonio Ocampo, Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University and Chair of the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations Economic and Social Council; Benedicte Bull, Professor in the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo (Norway), and Francisco Robles Rivera, Researcher at the Institute of Social Research (IIS) and Lecturer at the School of Communication (ECCC) at the University of Costa Rica; Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, Tenured Professor with the Faculty of Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); Maria Savona, Professor of Innovation and Evolutionary Economics at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) and Professor of Applied Economics at Luiss University, Rome; and Juan Carlos Moreno Brid, Professor in the School of Economics of the UNAM, and Rodrigo Alfonso Morales López, postdoctoral researcher at the same university’s School of Economics.
For this special issue of the CEPAL Review (No. 132), which is the main academic publication of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and Mario Cimoli, the Commission’s Deputy Executive Secretary, served as guest editors. The publication includes 15 articles written by leading scholars of regional and international renown in the field of social sciences. With the publication of this edition, the CEPAL Review contributes intellectual efforts to the significant work carried out by the Commission since the outbreak of the health emergency in early 2020, with the aim of putting theory into practice to help overcome the crisis and make real and effective progress towards a new development model with productive transformation, social inclusion and environmental sustainability, in keeping with the thinking of ECLAC.
Readers are reminded that the opinions expressed in the articles published in the Review are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect ECLAC’s viewpoints.
Journalists interested in this webinar are invited to follow the live transmission at https://live.cepal.org/. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
The event will also be transmitted live online via ECLAC’s website www.cepal.org, and on its social media accounts on Twitter (@cepal_onu) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu).
More information, including the programme of the webinar, is available at this link.
What: Launch of special edition of the CEPAL Review, No. 132. Webinar “COVID-19 and the socioeconomic crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Who:
When: Thursday, April 29, 2021, 10 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT -4).
Where: Live transmission at https://live.cepal.org/.
Also via ECLAC’s website and on Twitter and Facebook.
For queries, contact ECLAC’s Public Information Unit in Santiago, Chile.
Email: prensa@cepal.org; Telephone: (56) 22210 2040.
