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26 August 2020 | Press Release

ECLAC Proposes Ensuring and Universalizing Connectivity and the Affordability of Digital Technologies to Tackle the Effects of COVID-19
A new special report by the UN regional commission suggests a basic basket of Information and Communications Technologies for all households, at an annual cost of less than 1% of GDP.
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24 August 2020 | Announcement

New Report by ECLAC Analyzes the Key Role of Digital Technologies in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will present the document at a virtual press conference on Wednesday, August 26, from the institution’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo 2020
21 de August de 2020 | News

CEPAL y UNCTAD analizan las perspectivas para la inversión en la región y destacan el rol estratégico de las agencias de promoción con miras a la reactivación económica
Ambas instituciones organizaron un encuentro virtual el miércoles 19 de agosto para presentar el “Informe sobre las inversiones en el mundo 2020: Producción internacional más allá de la pandemia”.
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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.
4 August 2020 | Press Release

Countries of the Region Urge for a Paradigm Shift in International Financing and for Strengthening Multilateralism
Representatives of ECLAC’s member countries met today at the thirty-fifth session of the Commission’s Committee of the Whole, in which Costa Rica assumed the regional organization’s Presidency Pro Tempore for the next two years.
30 July 2020 | Press Release

ECLAC and PAHO: Controlling the pandemic requires convergence and coordination between health, economic, social and productive policies

New joint report states that economic recovery will only be possible by flattening the curve of contagion. It proposes three phases to control the pandemic, reactivate the economy with protection, and rebuild in an inclusive and sustainable way.
22 July 2020 | Press Release

Equality Reinforces Economic Efficiency, Fostering Productivity, Growth and Diversification: Alicia Bárcena
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary highlighted the positive effects of equality for a better recovery in the wake of the pandemic, during a high-level event organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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.
30 June 2020 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena Calls for Putting Poverty Eradication at the Center of Debate and Building Back Better with Equality and Sustainability
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated today in a high-level virtual meeting on “Trends, Options and Strategies in Poverty Eradication Across the World,” an event that marked the inauguration of the United Nations’ Alliance for Poverty Eradication.
Diálogo de Alto Nivel Tecnologías Digitales en tiempos de COVID19
17 de June de 2020 | News

Alicia Bárcena: En el mundo post-COVID el bienestar social no será posible sin la transformación digital
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL participó hoy en el Diálogo de Alto Nivel Tecnologías Digitales en tiempos de COVID19, donde instó a vincular la tecnología con la gobernanza del Estado y como elemento clave del desarrollo.
7 May 2020 | Press Release

Contribution of Science, Technology and Innovation is Key for Facing Challenges in the Health Industry and for Economic Recovery after the Pandemic
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, held a virtual meeting with ministers and senior officials from ministries and bodies in charge of science and technology from 15 of the region’s countries.
29 April 2020 | Press Release

Borrowing is Not an Option for Caribbean Countries, Access to Concessional Funding and Debt Relief is Urgently Needed to Face the COVID-19 Crisis
Caribbean Heads of State and Finance Ministers met with ECLAC’s Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena, to analyze debt relief proposals and other measures to fight the effects of the pandemic.
27 April 2020 | Press Release

COVID-19 Pandemic Calls on Us to Build a New Development Model and Strengthen Regional Integration to Confront the Crisis: ECLAC
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated in an EU-LAC Foundation webinar, urging for a “new green deal” to be forged with Europe for a more democratic, less unequal and more sustainable world.
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24 de April de 2020 | News

CEPAL posterga vigésima primera edición de su Escuela sobre economías latinoamericanas
El programa de formación se llevará a cabo del 11 de enero al 5 de marzo del 2021 en la sede del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas en Santiago, Chile. A partir del 15 de julio, la CEPAL pondrá a disposición del público general, algunos de los cursos de la Escuela vía online.
20 de April de 2020 | Press Release

Revista CEPAL ya está disponible en internet, con estudios sobre tecnología, empleo e innovación en América Latina

Principal publicación académica del organismo incluye además artículos sobre determinantes de la productividad laboral en México, un enfoque regional para estudiar la diversidad industrial en Argentina y la anatomía de la clase media brasileña, entre otros temas.
3 April 2020 | Press Release

The Only Strategic Option in the Medium Term to Mitigate COVID-19’s Effects in the Region is to Move Towards a New Development Model through Greater Integration
A new report by ECLAC warns that the crisis unleashed by the coronavirus illness could lead to a contraction of at least -1.8% in Latin America and the Caribbean’s GDP in 2020.
31 March 2020 | Op-ed

Zero Hour: Our Region in the Face of the Pandemic
Op-ed by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary.

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