Tag: José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs

• Thursday, August 15th 2024 - 09:31 UTC

  ECLAC highlights low investments and productivity in the region

  

  The Santiago de Chile-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) issued this week a new edition of its annual Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2024 report highlighting the region's poor investment performance, low labor productivity, and limited fiscal space.

• 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).