Tag: Alicia Bárcena

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  South America expected to grow 0.2% in 2019, forecasts CEPAL

  

  Hit by five years of “economic slowdown,” Latin America's economy will grow by barely 0.5% this year, the United Nations economic commission for the region said on Wednesday, well below the 1.3% projected in April.

• Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:04 UTC

  Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance launches collaboration network in Chile

  

  A group of UK experts visited Santiago during March 2019 to inaugurate a fintech collaboration network with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latina America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC). This was an outcome of an intense agenda of activities carried out in Chile last October by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, (CCAF).

• Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 - 06:20 UTC

  Latin American poverty and extreme poverty rose in 2015/16 following a decade of decline

  

  Poverty and extreme poverty levels rose in Latin America as a regional average in 2015 and 2016, after more than a decade of declines in the majority of countries, while in 2017 they are expected to hold steady, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 11:54 UTC

  Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America drops for second year running

  

  The flows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Latin America and the Caribbean shrank 7.9% in 2016 compared with 2015, totaling US$167.043 billion, representing a 17% decline from the peak reached in 2011, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) revealed at its headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 10:59 UTC

  Partnership with Latin America and the Caribbean strategic for China

  

  Chinese President said that his country's alliance with Latin America and Caribbean countries was of “strategic” importance as he opened the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Media Leaders Summit in Santiago.

• Monday, October 17th 2016 - 06:53 UTC

  Mercosur founding members share same economic model and are targeting trade accords, says ECLAC

  

  Tensions inside Mercosur can be attributed to the fact that Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay share a development “economic model” which distances them from Venezuela, and are prepared to advance in trade negotiations with the European Union, and even with the Pacific Alliance. Venezuela on the other hand has as its main priority putting the deteriorated economy back on the growth track, according to the UN regional economic commission ECLAC, chair Alicia Barcena.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2016 - 07:24 UTC

  Latin American fiscal weakness and lack of 'tax culture' addressed in ECLAC forum

  

  Evasion is one of the main weaknesses of the tax systems in the Latin America and the Caribbean economies, accounting for 320 billion dollars in 2014 - according to the Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2016, launched by the UN regional office, ECLAC, in Santiago de Chile.

• Friday, December 18th 2015 - 07:55 UTC

  South America to contract 0.8% and Central America will expand 4.6% in 2016, says UN office

  

  Latin American and Caribbean economies will contract 0.4% on average in 2015 and will grow just 0.2% next year, as a result of the complex external scenario, according to new projections unveiled on Thursday by the UN Latin America and Caribbean Economic commission, ECLAC. Estimates for next year are that Central America will expand 4.6% while South America will again contract 0.8%.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 06:07 UTC

  Caricom considering ECLAC proposal to write-off its multilateral debt

  

  The Caribbean Community, Caricom is considering a proposal for the region to pursue gradual write-off of its multilateral debt as a means of economic prosperity. The debt relief strategy was put forward by Alicia Barcena from the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the 36th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held in Barbados.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2015 - 02:05 UTC

  Latam unemployment expected to increase as economic activity weakens

  

  The non encouraging economic outlook for the current year will likely prompt a mild increase in the regional unemployment rate to 6.2% from the 6.0% registered in 2014, according to estimates released by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).