In a new report, ECLAC calls on countries to improve their policy design to take advantage of the contribution that FDI can make to the energy transition and to the region’s sustainable productive development.
In a new report, ECLAC calls on the region’s countries to use FDI strategically to strengthen and develop capacities that would contribute to sustainable and inclusive development.
The United Nations regional organization presented a new document with policy recommendations in the framework of the second EU-CELAC Foreign Ministers Meeting held in Brussels.
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary was one of the main speakers at the IV International Investment Forum Chile, inaugurated by the country’s president, Michelle Bachelet.
During a side event at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena said that the regional organization can support Latin American and Caribbean countries to better measure tax evasion and avoidance.
With proactive and integrated policies, countries can take advantage of FDI to diversify their economies, boost innovation and respond to the challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ECLAC says.