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XXXIII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, one of the main forums of reference for discussing issues related to the public finances of Latin American and Caribbean countries, concluded this Friday, April 23, with three webinars featuring prominent specialists who debated matters of financing for development, tax evasion and illicit flows, as well as climate finance.
The final day of the seminar – which has served for 33 years as a high-level, multilateral regional space for exchanging opinions about the region’s macroeconomic and fiscal policies and challenges – began with a webinar entitled “Financing challenges for sustaining an expansive fiscal policy and expanding fiscal space for a transformative recovery in middle-income countries,” in which the speakers included Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Stephany Griffith-Jones, of Columbia University (United States); Mark Plant, Co-Director of D
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and : Experts Stress the Need to Create a New Financing Model, at the Conclusion of the Thirty-Third Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy
04/24/2021 | 12:14am EDT
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XXXIII Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, one of the main forums of reference for discussing issues related to the public finances of Latin American and Caribbean countries, concluded this Friday, April 23, with three webinars featuring prominent specialists who debated matters of financing for development, tax evasion and illicit flows, as well as climate finance. The final day of the seminar - which has served for 33 years as a high-level, multilateral regional space for exchanging opinions about the region s macroeconomic and fiscal policies and challenges - began with a webinar entitled Financing challenges for sustaining an expansive fiscal policy and expanding fiscal space for a transformative recovery in middle-income count
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