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21 November 2019 | Announcement

ECLAC Will Present New Poverty and Inequality Figures and an Analysis of Middle-Income Strata in the Region
On Thursday, November 28, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena will launch in Chile the Social Panorama of Latin America 2019 report.
15 January 2019 | Press Release

Poverty in Latin America Remained Steady in 2017, but Extreme Poverty Increased to the Highest Level since 2008, while Inequality has Fallen Notably since 2000
ECLAC released its report Social Panorama 2018 today in Chile, including new revisions to the methodology used by the organization to estimate monetary poverty in the region, as well as new measurements on functional inequality, social spending and double labor and social inclusion.
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9 January 2019 | Announcement

ECLAC will Launch its Social Panorama of Latin American 2018 Report

On Tuesday, January 15, Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena will give a press conference at the regional organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
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18 December 2017 | Announcement

In a New Report, ECLAC Analyses Trends in Regional Poverty and the Situation of the Pension Systems in Latin America
The United Nations organization will unveil its report Social Panorama 2017 at a press conference in Mexico on Wednesday 20 December.
20 September 2017 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena: “The Eradication of Poverty is a Moral Imperative for our Societies”
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary moderated a high-level event in New York convened by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and her government, in which leaders and authorities from Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and Spain participated.
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24 May 2017 | Announcement

ECLAC Will Launch Social Panorama of Latin America 2016
The United Nations regional commission’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will hold a press conference on May 30 in Santiago, Chile.
22 March 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC Calls for Protecting Progress and Preventing Social Rollbacks in Light of Potential Increase in Regional Poverty
According to projections by the United Nations regional organization, 175 million people were living in situations of poverty in late 2015 in Latin America.
2 June 2014 | Op-ed

Reinforcing Complementarity in the Social Agenda of Latin America and the Caribbean
Op-ed by Martín Hopenhayn, Director of ECLAC's Social Development Division, published in ECLAC Notes Nº 80 (June 2014).