SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is hosting the 37th session of the Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, which began on Monday.
It said the three-day event will bring together authorities, specialists, members of civil society, and academia to discuss the fiscal policy challenges facing the region’s countries.
ECLAC said that Finance Ministry authorities from 13 of the region’s countries will participate in the meeting, along with prominent experts from international organizations, academia, civil society organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
The seminar organized by ECLAC includes presentations by authorities, academics, and representatives of international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), and the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT).
It is sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
ECLAC said that those attending will address fiscal policy challenges in a context of low growth and great uncertainty. On other panels, they will discuss expenditures and public investment to reduce structural gaps, tax policies to reduce inequality and promote environmental sustainability, and the mobilization of financing to expand fiscal space.
During the three-day meeting, ECLAC will release the Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025, an annual publication in which the United Nations regional organization examines topics relevant to the regional debate on fiscal policy.
In addition to analyzing the evolution of the main fiscal trends in 2024, the report explores issues such as tax incentives for fostering environmental sustainability and the macroeconomic effects of public investment in the region.
In addition, the findings of the 2025 edition of the Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean report will be presented on Tuesday. The publication was prepared jointly by ECLAC, the OECD, CIAT, and the IDB group.
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