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15 February 2024 | Press Release

ECLAC Launched Digital Development Observatory to Contribute to Latin America and the Caribbean’s Digital Transformation
The DDO’s first figures reveal major lags in digital technology adoption by the region’s productive sector.
12 December 2023 | Press Release

ECLAC Launched Platform for Cluster and Other Territorial Productive Articulation Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
At a virtual event led by Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, with the participation of prominent specialists in this area, officials presented this tool, which includes an interactive map with around 258 georeferenced initiatives thus far.
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30 November 2023 | Announcement

ECLAC Will Launch Platform for Cluster and Other Territorial Productive Articulation Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
The presentation will take place on Tuesday, December 12 at a virtual event led by the United Nations regional organization’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.
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24 March 2023 | Announcement

Authorities and Specialists Will Debate Territorial Productive Policies and Digitalization at International Seminar Organized by ECLAC
At the event, which will take place on April 18 using a hybrid format, two projects implemented by the United Nations regional organization with financing from the European Union will come to a close.
El Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPALjunto al Embajador de Corea
11 November 2022 | News

Republic of Korea and ECLAC Renew their 2022-2023 Cooperation Agreement, with Emphasis on Economic Integration and the Digital Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean
The country’s ambassador in Chile, Kyungtae Hwang, was received by the United Nations regional commission’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.
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9 August 2022 | News

Authorities from Argentina Exchanged Experiences at ECLAC on Productive Development Policies Geared Towards Territories
Mario Cimoli, the regional organization’s Acting Executive Secretary, kicked off the event along with Mercedes Marcó del Pont, Argentina’s Secretary of Strategic Affairs.
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10 December 2021 | Announcement

Authorities Will Debate about Health Sovereignty, Digital Technologies and Eco-Innovation at ECLAC’s Regional Conference
On December 13-15, Argentina will host the Third Meeting of the Conference on Science, Innovation and Information and Communications Technologies, using a hybrid format.
30 June 2021 | News

ECLAC Examines the Digital Transformation Process of Tourism-related MSMEs in SICA Countries
A new publication by the subregional headquarters in Mexico includes a cross-cutting gender analysis and addresses the innovation capacity of rural companies in this sector.
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20 November 2020 | Announcement

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Define a New Digital Agenda in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic at the VII Ministerial Conference on the Information Society
The meeting, organized by ECLAC and the Government of Ecuador, will take place virtually from Monday, November 23 to Thursday, November 26, 2020.
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4 November 2020 | Announcement

The Role of Digital Technologies in Light of the Pandemic Will Be Analyzed at the Seventh Ministerial Conference organized by ECLAC and the Government of Ecuador
The meeting will take place virtually on November 23-26, 2020.
8 October 2020 | Press Release

ECLAC Stresses Crucial Role of Regional Integration and Importance of Public-Private Partnerships for the post COVID-19 Recovery
Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena participated in a high-level event of U.S. chambers of commerce in Latin America and the Caribbean, which featured the special participation of Argentine President Alberto Fernández.
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL
23 September 2020 | News

Alicia Bárcena Stressed the Importance of Equality as a Driver of Growth for Companies and Businesses after the COVID-19 Crisis
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary spoke with senior company officials and private sector leaders from the Americas, during a virtual event organized by UNITAR’s affiliate in Colombia.
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7 de August de 2020 | News

CEPAL refuerza su colaboración con empresas cooperativas de la región y alcanza acuerdo para impulso del modelo cooperativo
Autoridades de la CEPAL y de Cooperativas de las Américas participaron en el conversatorio “Empresas Cooperativas de América Latina y el Caribe frente a la pandemia de COVID-19: estrategias para la reactivación”, organizado en conjunto por ambas instituciones.
13 July 2020 | Press Release

It is Crucial to Propose a Social Compact Based on a Broad and Participatory Dialogue to Face the Present Contingency and Rethink the Post COVID-19 Reactivation
In the framework of the OECD-LAC Virtual Social Inclusion Ministerial Summit, Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, called for promoting universal, redistributive and solidarity-based social policies to confront the crisis.
10 July 2020 | Press Release

Event with Latin American and Caribbean Countries Stresses the Importance of Guaranteeing a Universal Social Protection System

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated in a side event at the United Nations High-level Political Forum on COVID-19’s socioeconomic impacts in the region and policy responses for building back better.
2 July 2020 | Press Release

The Pandemic’s Impacts on the Hardest-Hit Production Sectors Will Affect One Third of Employment in the Region and One Fourth of GDP
ECLAC released a new Special Report COVID-19, in which it offers proposals for confronting the effects of the crisis on businesses and production sectors. The organization estimates that 2.7 million companies will close, most of them microenterprises, which would entail the loss of 8.5 million jobs.
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1 July 2020 | Announcement

New Special Report by ECLAC Analyzes COVID-19’s Impacts on Latin American and Caribbean Businesses and Production Sectors and Proposes Policies for the Emergency and the Reactivation
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the document at a virtual press conference tomorrow, Thursday, July 2, from the institution’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
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23 de May de 2019 | News

La cooperación internacional es fundamental para promover el desarrollo tecnológico en las mipymes de la región
Representantes de más de 50 instituciones de apoyo a las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas de América Latina y Europa participaron en taller de dos días realizado en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago, Chile.
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21 de May de 2019 | Announcement

Instituciones de América Latina y Europa que prestan apoyo a las mipymes se darán cita en la CEPAL

Taller internacional organizado en el marco del proyecto EUROMIPYME tendrá lugar los días 22 y 23 de mayo en Santiago, Chile.
From left to right: Jamie Bowden, the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Chile; Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary; Mario Marcel, President of the Central Bank of Chile; and Ravi Vig, from the University of Cambridge
26 March 2019 | News

ECLAC and Cambridge University Launched a Fintech Collaboration Network

The Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena, the President of Chile’s Central Bank, Mario Marcel, and the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Jamie Bowden, inaugurated a seminar in Santiago where the joint initiative was presented.

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