Authorities from Finance Ministries in 12 of the region’s countries kicked off the XXXIV edition of the Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, at ECLAC’s headquarters. The XXXIV Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy began this Monday at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. At this gathering – which […]
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has distinguished its Recovery Duration Adjuster (RDA) from the United Nations Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI), demonstrating how the Bank’s framework is a more appropriate option for determining the level of concessional finance needed by Small Island Developing States (SIDS) for recovery from external shocks such as natural hazards and health […]
September 29, 2021, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Gene Leon, urged the region to take bold and innovative steps to surmount the significant development challenges that have been amplified by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to shift to a new development trajectory. “Our development challenge is not merely […]
MIAMI (July 7, 2021) – The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) is strengthening its collaboration with one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), to promote sustainable tourism throughout the Caribbean and bolster its efforts to keep the region’s waters healthy and thriving. “The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed two years ago […]
In the framework of ECLAC’s 38th session, Foreign Affairs Ministers urgently called for solidarity, multilateralism and international cooperation to be intensified at all levels. (October 26, 2020) Ministers of Foreign Affairs and high-level authorities from Latin American and Caribbean countries signed a political declaration today for a sustainable, inclusive and resilient recovery, in the framework of […]
ECLAC launched its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2020, an annual report in which it reaffirms that international cooperation, through better distribution of global liquidity, must underpin the expansion of policy space in the region. (October 6, 2020) It will be essential to maintain and deepen active macroeconomic policies to achieve recovery and […]
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated in the 24th Annual CAF Conference, where she urged for driving a transformation to elevate productivity, with innovation but also with equality and sustainability at the center. (September 9, 2020) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, called for forging a political, social […]
Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, participated today in the LVI Ordinary Meeting of MERCOSUR’s Common Market Council. (July 1, 2020) Deepening regional integration must be an essential component of any strategy for emerging from the crisis produced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in order to move towards more sustainable and resilient trade. This entails strengthening our […]
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated in a high-level international event on inequalities and the informal economy during and after the pandemic. (June 9, 2020) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, emphasized that building back better in the region means building back with equality and […]
