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Latin American and Caribbean Countries Stress the Importance of Producing Timely and Reliable Statistics for a Transformative Recovery with Equality
High-level authorities and representatives of national statistics offices from Latin American and Caribbean countries stressed today the importance of producing timely and reliable statistics for a transformative recovery with equality and called for strengthening the role of national statistical entities to tackle the challenges inflicted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Participants in the virtual meeting, which will conclude tomorrow, include 33 delegations from ECLAC s Member States and 10 associate members, along with regional representatives and representatives of the United Nations System s agencies, funds and programs, international organizations, academia and civil society.
High-level authorities and representatives of national statistics offices from Latin American and Caribbean countries stressed today the importance of producing timely and reliable statistics for a transformative recovery with equality and called for strengthening the role of national statistical entities to tackle the challenges inflicted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Participants in the virtual meeting, which will conclude tomorrow, include 33 delegations from ECLAC’s Member States and 10 associate members, along with regional representatives and representatives of the United Nations System’s agencies, funds and programs, international organizations, academia and civil society.
During the meeting’s opening ceremony, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, stated that the crisis prompted by the pandemic has highlighted the importance of producing timely and reliable official statistics for monitoring the disease, identifying groups in situations of vulnerab
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The pandemic did not hit everyone in the same way. While, according to data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 22 million people joined poverty, 10 billionaires increased their wealth. This Tuesday,
2021 World Billionaires List . Globally, the ranking was headed by Jeff Bezos , founder of Amazon , with a net worth valued at 177 billion dollars. It is followed by Elon Musk , CEO of Tesla and SpaceX , with 151 billion dollars.
Guatemala´s economy to grow 3.5% despite Covi-19
Guatemala´s economy to grow 3.5% despite Covi-19
Guatemala, Apr 7 (Prensa Latina) Guatemala closed its first quarter of the year with the largest economic recovery in the region, showing that its financial outlook will be excellent for the rest of the year, President Alejandro Giammattei said Tuesday.
In a joint press conference with Ministers of Finance and Economy, Álvaro González Ricci and Antonio Malouf, respectively, the Guatemalan president stressed that 2021 is less atypical compared with 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic had a hard impact on domestic production and employment.
In his opinion, results until March, even amid a pandemic, are similar to those of 2020, before the onset of the disease.