The technical assistance given by the Bogotá Office seeks to promote civic participation in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of territorial public policies.
A document edited by the organization’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico indicates that intellectual property rules have increased the cost of access to some medicines and can jeopardize full enjoyment of the right to health, which is an especially relevant issue at this time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers, private-sector professionals, businesspeople, representatives of civil society, policymakers and civil servants are invited to submit case studies.
The traditional event will be held on March 23-24, 2017 in Santiago, Chile, and will be attended by finance ministers and undersecretaries and other authorities from countries in the region.
Sixteen countries in the region have made changes to their tax systems in the past year. ECLAC’S Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2015 presents a summary of the measures adopted.
The Network of National Public Investment Systems provides information about legislation and evaluation methodologies on current projects in 16 Latin American countries.
