Tag: ECLAC

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 19:46 UTC

  ECLAC sees great stress ahead for Latin America

  

  The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) foresees “great stress” and a “cascade of crises” including rampant inflation and increasing climate change that will affect the livelihoods of people in the region.

• Wednesday, January 11th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

  Price increases boost Latin American exports in 2022

  

  Latin American exports grew 20% in 2022 due to increases in the price of goods, according to projections featured in a report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) released this week.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 12:52 UTC

  Latin America forecasted to expand 1,3% in 2023, after growing 3,7% last year, ECLAC report

  

  In its annual report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC projects that regional growth next year will be a third of the rate forecast for 2022.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2022 - 19:41 UTC

  Governments need to address aging issues, ECLAC insists

  

  The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) urged governments in the region this week to address the issue of aging people during the V Regional Conference on Aging and the Rights of Older Persons in Santiago.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Foreign investment in Latin America still below pre-pandemic levels

  

  Despite a 40.7% growth from 2021, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in Latin America continue to be below the levels recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released Tuesday in Santiago by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

• Tuesday, October 25th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  ECLAC's 39th session gets underway in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs Monday opened the United Nations agency's 39th session in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Latin America's economy reported to be slowing down

  

  Latin America's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been reported to be slowing down, with a 2.7% expansion projected for the end of 2022, according to an Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) report released in Santiago on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  War in Ukraine to increase LatAm poverty, ECLAC foresees

  

  Poverty in Latin America will grow to 33.7% and extreme poverty to 14.9% this year as a direct consequence of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has warned.

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Slowdown deepens in Latin America with regional growth forecasted at 1,8% this year, ECLAC report

  

  The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean face a complex situation in 2022 because of the Russia/Ukraine war with its shadow of uncertainty for the world economy. This is negatively affecting global growth, and at regional level, lower expected growth will be accompanied by higher inflation and slower employment recovery.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2022 - 23:49 UTC

  UN: women spend more than three times as much time on domestic and care work as men

  

  This March 8, on the occasion of International Women's Day, the UN established the theme “Gender equality today, for a sustainable tomorrow”. In order to “move towards achieving sustainable development, responding to the climate crisis we face, managing and reducing disaster risk and strengthening the resilience of all women, leaving no one behind”.