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15 February 2024 | Press Release

ECLAC Launched Digital Development Observatory to Contribute to Latin America and the Caribbean’s Digital Transformation
The DDO’s first figures reveal major lags in digital technology adoption by the region’s productive sector.
12 December 2023 | Press Release

ECLAC Launched Platform for Cluster and Other Territorial Productive Articulation Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
At a virtual event led by Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, with the participation of prominent specialists in this area, officials presented this tool, which includes an interactive map with around 258 georeferenced initiatives thus far.
8 October 2020 | Press Release

ECLAC Stresses Crucial Role of Regional Integration and Importance of Public-Private Partnerships for the post COVID-19 Recovery
Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena participated in a high-level event of U.S. chambers of commerce in Latin America and the Caribbean, which featured the special participation of Argentine President Alberto Fernández.
13 July 2020 | Press Release

It is Crucial to Propose a Social Compact Based on a Broad and Participatory Dialogue to Face the Present Contingency and Rethink the Post COVID-19 Reactivation
In the framework of the OECD-LAC Virtual Social Inclusion Ministerial Summit, Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, called for promoting universal, redistributive and solidarity-based social policies to confront the crisis.
10 July 2020 | Press Release

Event with Latin American and Caribbean Countries Stresses the Importance of Guaranteeing a Universal Social Protection System

ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated in a side event at the United Nations High-level Political Forum on COVID-19’s socioeconomic impacts in the region and policy responses for building back better.
2 July 2020 | Press Release

The Pandemic’s Impacts on the Hardest-Hit Production Sectors Will Affect One Third of Employment in the Region and One Fourth of GDP
ECLAC released a new Special Report COVID-19, in which it offers proposals for confronting the effects of the crisis on businesses and production sectors. The organization estimates that 2.7 million companies will close, most of them microenterprises, which would entail the loss of 8.5 million jobs.
10 October 2018 | Press Release

New Generation of Industrial Policies is Critical for Development of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean
At a high-level seminar in Buenos Aires, authorities and experts debated the challenges of MSMEs in the face of disruptive technology and global uncertainty.
17 July 2018 | Press Release

ECLAC Advocates for a Renewed Strategy of Dynamic Cooperation Based on Multilateralism between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union
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.
11 December 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Calls for Revitalizing the Multilateral Trading System and Putting it at the Service of Sustainable Development
Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena is heading the regional organization’s delegation to the eleventh Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, being held in Buenos Aires.
20 September 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC: Digitalization of SMEs Would Contribute to Reducing Inequality in the Region
The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, spoke at a side event in the framework of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
13 September 2016 | Press Release

ECLAC: Long-Term Sustainable Growth Will Only Be Achieved by Digitalizing the Economy
The second session of the Conference on Science, Innovation and ICTs of ECLAC concluded today in San Jose, Costa Rica.
10 June 2015 | Press Release

In Brussels, ECLAC Highlights Spaces for Convergence and Cooperation between the European Union and the Region
Alicia Bárcena met with the head of European diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, and spoke at the academic and business meetings carried out in the framework of the second EU-CELAC summit, which concludes tomorrow in Belgium’s capital.
4 de February de 2014 | Press Release

La computación en la nube es fundamental para reducir la desigualdad
Durante el evento, que aborda los impactos y desafíos del cloud computing en Europa y América Latina, se creará un foro interregional para promover la masificación de esta tecnología.
16 November 2012 | Press Release

New SME Policies Needed to Boost Latin America's Growth
Both organizations launched the 2013 Latin American Economic Outlook in Cádiz, Spain.
19 July 2012 | Press Release

An Aggressive Policy Is Needed to Incorporate ICTs in the Production Systems of Latin America
A two-day seminar was held in El Salvador on information and communications technologies (ICTs) and productive development in the region.
17 October 2011 | Press Release

Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises Is Key to Improving Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Executive Secretary of ECLAC participated in a panel together with the Secretary of State of the United States of America and Secretary General of the OAS.