Tag: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

• Wednesday, October 30th 2013 - 21:45 UTC

  Latam and Caribbean weather global slowdown: unemployment forecasted to end this year at 6.3%

  

  Latin American and the Caribbean are forecasted to end 2013 with an urban unemployment rate of between 6.2% and 6.3%, slightly lower than 6.4% recorded in 2012, according to the latest estimates from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).

• Tuesday, July 30th 2013 - 03:03 UTC

  Eclac joins the club of Argentine government official stats disbelievers and says inflation is 20.5%

  

  Following on the steps of the IMF (and World Bank) which has strongly questioned Argentine official stats (mainly inflation and GDP growth), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Eclac, also joined the club of disbelievers since in its last report on the regional economy appealed to other stats’ sources.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:27 UTC

  Further drop in Latam average regional urban unemployment, says UN agency

  

  The average regional urban unemployment rate could drop by up to 0.2 percentage points to stand between 6.4% and 6.2% in 2013, the lowest rate in recent decades, according to a new report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 - 18:29 UTC

  UN Latam economic commission publishes Yearbook with updated stats on the region

  

  In Latin America and the Caribbean 94% of primary-school age children attended school, but the figure was down to 75% for secondary level of education. Likewise the average number of people on technical or university courses was three times higher in the richest quintile than in the poorest quintile, according to data collected by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).