The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC or ECLAC; , CEPAL) is a United Nations regional commission to encourage economic cooperation. ECLAC includes 46 member states (20 in Latin America, 13 in the Caribbean and 13 from outside the region), and 14 associate members which are various non-independent territories, associated island countries and a commonwealth in the Caribbean. ECLAC publishes statistics covering the countries of the regionCEPALSTAT page at official ECLAC site and makes cooperative agreements with non-profit institutions.ECLAC signed a cooperation agreement to promote science and technology in the region (with Brazilian Center for Strategic Studies and Management) at ECLAC.org The headquarters of ECLAC is in Santiago, Chile.
ECLAC was established in 1948 as the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA). In 1984, a resolution was passed to include the countries of the Caribbean in the name. It reports to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Executive secretaries Name Country ServedJosé Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs September 2022 – Alicia Bárcena Ibarra July 2008 – March 2022José Luis Machinea December 2003 – June 2008José Antonio Ocampo January 1998 – August 2003Gert Rosenthal January 1988 – December 1997Norberto González March 1985 – December 1987Enrique V. Iglesias April 1972 – February 1985Carlos Quintana January 1967 – March 1972José Antonio Mayobre August 1963 – December 1966Raúl Prebisch May 1950 – July 1963Gustavo Martínez Cabañas December 1948 – April 1950
Themes and programmes Implementing Sustainable Development Goals A mapping of ECLAC's activities to the Sustainable Development Goals (in 2023) shows that its current work emphasizes four SDGs; namely, SDG 17 on partnerships, SDG 8 on decent work, SDG 10 on reduced inequalities, and SDG 16 on peace and justice. In practice, ECLAC strives toward its own regional paradigm, called Global Environmental Keynesianism, which promotes multidimensional equality as the purpose of development. The commission seeks to balance the new SDGs with its earlier focus on equality and to better emphasize the environmental dimension of economic development. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
ECLAC has been working on a debt-swap strategy since 2016, titled the Debt for Climate Adaptation Swap and Caribbean Resilience Fund. This fund aims to reduce the debt and fiscal constraints for investment in green industries, stimulate growth, promote economic transformation, and expand fiscal space for public investment such as for the SDGs.
Locations
Santiago, Chile (headquarters) Mexico City, Mexico (Central American subregional headquarters) Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean subregional headquarters) Bogotá, Colombia (country office) Brasília, Brazil (country office) Buenos Aires, Argentina (country office) Montevideo, Uruguay (country office) Washington, DC, United States of America (liaison office)
Member states
The following are all member states of ECLAC:
Associate members The following are all associate members of ECLAC:
Former member states
Foreign investment A number of the political governments of the region maintain foreign direct investment promotion agencies in partnership with entities such as the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies. Additionally ECLAC/CEPAL cooperates on regional annual conferences with CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the CaribbeanCAF-CEPAL Conference Annual conference, April 09, 2024 and the bloc overlaps with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States based in Uruguay.
See also List of currencies in the Americas List of stock exchanges in the Americas Library of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions United Nations System
Association of Caribbean States Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
References
External links
– UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (U.N. ECLAC)