ECLAC will present the first edition of its report Panorama of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch the first edition of its report on the development of the region on Thursday, September 5, 2024, during a webinar. Overview of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024which presents a new vision for the region regarding these policies, characterizes the different efforts that Latin American and Caribbean countries have been making and proposes a series of guidelines and recommendations to scale up and improve these policies with the aim of achieving more productive, inclusive and sustainable development.

The new publication, which seeks to become a point of reference for policy makers and specialists in productive development, will be presented by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and the Director of the Productive and Business Development Division of the same institution, Marco Llinás, among others. 9:00 and 9:45 hours in Chile (GMT-4).

This will be followed by three panel discussions with the participation of José Antonio Ocampo, former Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia and former Executive Secretary of ECLAC; Nicolás Grau, Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile; and Piero Ghezzi, former Minister of Production of Peru and specialist in productive development, as well as authorities from Brazil and Colombia.

They are joined by experts from the Development Center of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean – CAF and the universities of Columbia, Harvard and Oxford, among other institutions.

In the five chapters of the report, ECLAC addresses issues such as:

• The role of productivity in the low-growth trap in which Latin America and the Caribbean are mired.
• The new vision on productive development policies for the region.
• Characterization and quantification of the instruments of productive development policies of national governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Institutions and governance of productive development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Productive development policies at the subnational level.

That: Launch of the first edition of the ECLAC report Overview of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Who is it:

• José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
• Marco Llinás, Director of the Productive and Business Development Division of ECLAC.
• Senior government officials from the region and specialists in productive development policies.

When: Thursday, September 5, 2024, between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Chile time (GMT-4).

Where: Virtual connection through various platforms:

Zoom: https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xXBsLKRKTsuQY9SrOpEQYw

ECLAC website: www.cepal.org

Special broadcast site: https://live.cepal.org

Official account on X: https://twitter.com/cepal_onu

Official Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu