Tag: Alicia Bárcena

• Tuesday, January 27th 2015 - 06:18 UTC

  Poverty reduction in Latin America stalls during 2014: totals 167 million

  

  Poverty affected 28% of Latin America’s population in 2014, revealing that its decline has stalled at around that level since 2012, while indigence rose to 12.0% from 11.3% during the same two-year period in an overall context of economic deceleration, according to projections from a study presented On Monday by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

• Saturday, January 10th 2015 - 06:22 UTC

  Significance of China for Latam trade and investment underlined by Eclac

  

  The importance of forging closer strategic ties between China and Latin America was underlined by Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in her speech to the China-Community of Latin American and Caribbean two-day ministerial forum that took place in Beijing.

• Wednesday, December 3rd 2014 - 07:48 UTC

  Latam forecasted to grow 2,2% in 2015, but this year will only average 1.1%

  

  Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean will recover in 2015 and reach 2.2% on average, according to new estimates unveiled on Tuesday by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

• Wednesday, November 26th 2014 - 09:41 UTC

  Pacific Alliance and Mercosur represent 90% of Latam and Caribbean GDP

  

  The Pacific Alliance (PA) and the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) combined represent more than 80% of regional foreign trade as well as population, and more than 90% of GDP and direct foreign investment flows, according to a new report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

• Friday, October 10th 2014 - 05:01 UTC

  Latam headed for a third year of foreign trade stagnation, reports ECLAC

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean's foreign trade will experience its third year of stagnation in 2014, because of minimal growth in exports and a slight decline in imports, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reported on Thursday.

• Wednesday, September 24th 2014 - 06:32 UTC

  Morales opens indigenous peoples conference in New York blasting capitalism

  

  Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, inaugurated the first World Conference on Indigenous Peoples at the UN on Monday and said he is living proof that the community can “govern and not just vote.”

• Tuesday, August 5th 2014 - 06:50 UTC

  Barcena anticipates that Argentina will probably have negative growth in 2014

  

  Argentina's economy probably will contract in 2014, the head of the United Nation's body for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC said on Monday, as fallout from a new sovereign debt crisis will keep the country out of money markets.

• Monday, July 7th 2014 - 23:09 UTC

  ECLAC sides with Argentina; calls for Collective Action Clause for sovereign debts

  

  The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, has sided with Argentina in the holdout hedge funds litigation arguing on the need to establish an international mechanism that would allow for the resolution of conflicts of interest caused by sovereign defaults:

• Thursday, December 12th 2013 - 06:33 UTC

  Latam forecasted to expand 3.2% in 2014 after a 2.6% this year, says Eclac

  

  The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean will expand by 3.2% in 2014, which is higher than the 2.6% for 2013, according to the latest report from the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, launched on Wednesday in Santiago, Chile.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 02:20 UTC

  Latam/China trade highly vulnerable: raw materials for manufactured goods

  

  Over the past decade China has become a key partner for Latin America and the Caribbean with bilateral trade increasing 22 fold between 2000 and 2012, albeit with a strong deficit for Latin American countries, according to Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.