The 25th version of the ELADES-ECLAC Development Policy Studies Programme has concluded

On Friday, August 30, 2024, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile, the closing session of the 25th version of the Development Policy Studies Program of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean was held. Latin American School of Development Studies (ELADES) of ECLAC.

In this edition of the Program – which began on July 11 – 283 people from 29 countries around the world applied. The 28 selected students came from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay.

Among the activities carried out this year, the seminar entitled Political development in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last decade stood out, which took place on Friday, August 23, 2024, at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago.

The Program of Studies on Development Policies for Latin America and the Caribbean (formerly the “Summer School”) was created in 2000 and since then more than 700 students from different countries and universities have participated.

Classes are organized into six modules: Introduction to development, sustainable development, political development, economic development, social development, and personal development, and each module offers presentations by academics and specialists from the various substantive divisions of ECLAC.

This is a plural, interdisciplinary space that combines multiple approaches and traditions of thought, promoting discussion, reflection, generation and exchange of ideas on Latin American problems, based on the specialized contributions of the different areas of work of ECLAC and the most recent advances in the study of the situation in the region and development policies. The Program combines theoretical and practical content from the different dimensions of development.

Through this course taught by ELADES, ECLAC seeks to maintain its links with the university world – with Latin American and Caribbean students as well as those from other regions – by contributing to their training in development issues.