ECLAC’s Summer School Opens in July

This year’s XI Summer School on Latin American Economies will cover a broad range of topics stretching from the economics of innovation to infrastructure, climate change and the relationship between poverty and gender.

The annual course will be held from 1 July to 30 September at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago. Applications may be submitted until 28 May.

As in every year since the summer school was created in 2000, the course focuses on ECLAC’s main areas of concern –from macro to microeconomics, including issues like social policies, poverty and sustainable development.

The programme this year will cover the following topics:

• Macroeconomics of Development
• Quantitative Methods
• Microeconomics, Industrial Organization and Productive Structure
• Economics of Innovation
• History of ECLAC’s Body of Thought
• Poverty, Equality and Gender
• Real Economy, the Financial Sector and Financing for Development
• Trade, International Insertion and Integration
• Local Economic Development, Competitiveness and Productive Articulation
• Sustainable Development and Climate Change
• Dynamics of Demography and Development
• Natural Resources, Energy and Infrastructure
• Small Economies and Regional Development

The three-month course is geared at post-graduate or doctorate students in economy or economic development with advanced university degrees in the same areas. They must also command English and Spanish.

Through this school, ECLAC seeks to introduce the new generations of economists to its research. It is organized by the Production, Productivity and Management Division and was created through an agreement between the Commission and Latin American and European universities.

Over its 10 years, the Summer School has received over 200 students from about 30 universities around the world.

Last year, 29 students from 11 countries in three continents participated. They came from Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, France, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and for the first time, the Republic of Korea.

“As a future economist, I must learn from different realities in the world today. That’s what this course is providing me, solid foundations to contribute to the development of my own country,” said Summer School student Monica Hae Min Park, of Kyunghee University in the Republic of Korea.