4 January 2024 | Briefing note
ECLAC, with the support of the Government of Canada, has launched the Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC) Knowledge Base. The Canada funded PRASC was a capacity-building initiative aimed at strengthening the statistical system of the Caribbean region to improve socio-economic measures and facilitate evidence-based policy making.
28 December 2023 | Briefing note
To strengthen cluster and territorial productive articulation initiatives operating in the region, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) launched the Platform for cluster and other territorial productive articulation initiatives.
7 December 2023 | Briefing note
A geoportal is a web application whose purpose is to offer users access to a series of resources and services based on geographic information, enabling integration, interoperability, and the exchange, in this case, of statistical information.
31 October 2023 | Briefing note
With only 15 per cent of SDG targets being on track to be achieved by 2030 globally, there was a strong sense of urgency to deliver on the promise that was made in 2015 at the SDG Summit this year.
2 August 2023 | Briefing note
Participants in this global data science competition are expected to develop innovative data-driven statistical applications, tools or models that combine geospatial data with other data sources that help advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
12 July 2023 | Briefing note
This month, countries come together at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) to take stock of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
19 June 2023 | Briefing note
The Regional Conference on South-South Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), aims to promote the strengthening of national South-South and triangular cooperation mechanisms and their possible interactions with North-South and multilateral cooperation. The conference encouraged regional and extra-regional actors, donor countries and international organizations to engage in South-South and triangular cooperation to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer and achieve cooperation activities.
5 June 2023 | Briefing note
Sub-national accounts is an important tool to understand the structure of goods and services produced and how they have evolved in the different territories of a country. In this sense, ECLAC makes available to users new subnational GDP indicators available for 11 Latin American countries that are expected to constitute a substantive contribution for decision-making and development planning of a nation.
30 May 2023 | Briefing note
A geoportal is a web application whose purpose is to offer users access to a series of resources and services based on geographic information, enabling integration, interoperability and the exchange, in this case, of statistical information.
11 May 2023 | Briefing note
The First Meeting of Experts of the Community of Practice on Agricultural Statistics in Central America and the Dominican Republic took place via virtual mode on the 11th and 12th of May 2023.
20 April 2023 | Briefing note
The Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is State-led and open to participation by all Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is convened under the auspices of ECLAC and guided by the principles established for all follow-up and review processes by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly.
2 March 2023 | Briefing note
The report "Measuring disability through administrative records of education in Latin America: diagnosis and recommendations to move towards regional harmonization" presents a proposal for measuring disability for administrative records in education at the initial, primary, secondary, tertiary and higher education levels to be applied in Latin America and to move towards a framework of comparability and harmonization between countries in the region of statistical information on students with disabilities.
1 March 2023 | Briefing note
Follow-up meeting of the ECLAC project on the implementation of statistical geoportals in 8 countries of the region. The meeting was held within the framework of the 54th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission.
24 February 2023 | Briefing note
New website highlights the contributions of ECLAC to Latin America and the Caribbean in the past 75 years
Learn about the history of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and discover how it has shaped thinking on public policy and development and supported the region by promoting economic, social and sustainable development initiatives over almost eight decades.
21 February 2023 | Briefing note
When the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all 193 Member States of the United Nations at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015 as “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future”, it presented a historic opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite progress, the region needs to step up their efforts.
23 January 2023 | Briefing note
Published in Spanish, English and Portuguese, this living research and study resource systematizes the history of ILPES and development planning in Latin America and the Caribbean.
14 November 2022 | Briefing note
The Hernán Santa Cruz Library has prepared a new research guide on Environment and Climate Change Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean in collaboration with the Environment Statistics Unit of the ECLAC Statistics Division.
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.
30 March 2022 | Briefing note
It is available in CEPALSTAT platform, the main gateway to the statistical information on the region’s countries that is collected, systematized and published by ECLAC.
13 May 2021 | Briefing note
The first issue of this new Bulletin presents the different measures that have been taken by the national statistical offices responsible for compiling their country’s CPI while the health emergency continues.