8 November 2022 | Briefing note
8 November 2022 | Briefing note
The ECLAC Office in Washington D.C. has published new issue of its Series Studies and Perspectives.
3 November 2022 | Briefing note
All people have been cared for and all need care throughout the phases of life. However, care work is mostly done by women and girls, which hinders their autonomy. Transitioning towards a care society as a horizon for sustainable recovery with gender equality will be the theme of the fifteenth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, scheduled to take place this November in Argentina.
28 October 2022 | Briefing note
he Division for Gender Affairs of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) participated in the III session of the Business Roundtable for Gender Equality called “Tools to integrate gender parity in the value chain”. The event was held on October 27, 2022, and was organized by the Business Alliance for Development of Costa Rica.
23 October 2022 | Briefing note
19 October 2022 | Briefing note
Division for Gender Affairs of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) participated in the Economic Autonomy Module of the workshop "Strategy for the empowerment and leadership of women exporters: Global trade from a gender perspective." Organized by the Mujer Exportasv program, it was held in October 2022.
12 October 2022 | Briefing note
The ECLAC Hernán Santa Cruz Library makes the ECLAC Digital Repository readily available to the global community through open access.
7 October 2022 | Briefing note
We continue the conversation and our webinar series on Open Science in 2023 and invite you to showcase your experiences and initiatives.
5 October 2022 | Briefing note
After breaking an annual record in 2021, total Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) bond issuance in international markets slowed considerably in the first eight months of 2022.
28 September 2022 | Briefing note
Progress on the 2030 Agenda Will be Decided in Cities Latin America and the Caribbean is the world's most urbanized developing region. The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has said that "cities are where the climate battle will be won or lost". Cities are the engines of economic growth, but they are also the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, and their growth is occurring amid great inequalities in our societies.
28 September 2022 | Briefing note
The thirty-ninth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will be held from 24 to 26 October 2022, at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires.
7 September 2022 | Insights
7 September 2022 | Briefing note
During the last eight weeks, students from the Latin American School of Development (ELADES) have enjoyed the Hernán Santa Cruz Library’s space and services at ECLAC in Santiago, Chile.
1 September 2022 | Briefing note
The nominal series of commodity exports and total exports, which form part of the recent update of information in CEPALSTAT and are available for consultation, show the pressures on natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean.
22 August 2022 | Briefing note
New population estimates and projections for Latin America and the Caribbean used to estimate the demographic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic show that Latin America and the Caribbean lost 2.9 years of life expectancy at birth, from 75.1 years in 2019 to 72.1 years in 2021. This makes it the region of the world that lost the most years of life expectancy due to the pandemic.
22 August 2022 | Briefing note
Analysis of the evolution of the pandemic clearly shows that the health crisis has not passed and that uncertainty remains. The prolonged crisis has highlighted not only the weaknesses of the region's health and social protection systems, but also the centrality of health for social and economic development.
19 August 2022 | Briefing note
ECLAC is interested in compiling points of view, experiences and proposals from Caribbean countries regarding their main challenges. Caribbean states are highly vulnerably due to the financial indebtedness and climate change and must receive adequate support, including through concessional funding and reestablishment of the liquidity they need. Thus, ECLAC wants to highlight the importance of these countries and focus its activities around the concept of “Caribbean first”.
16 August 2022 | Briefing note
5 August 2022 | Briefing note
The Division for Gender Affairs of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) participated in the First Ministerial Meeting on Entrepreneurship and Economic Autonomy of Women of the Pacific Alliance, held on August 5, 2022. In it, successful experiences of policies and programs for women’s economic autonomy and empowerment were exchanged, mainly to promote the participation of rural women's enterprises in foreign trade.
28 July 2022 | Briefing note