The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will host on May 26-28 the XXXVII session of the Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy, a traditional forum that has brought together authorities, specialists, members of civil society and academia for over 35 years to discuss the fiscal policy challenges facing the region’s countries.
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 Co-operation 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).
Those attending will address fiscal policy challenges in a context of low growth and great uncertainty, and on other panels they will discuss expenditures and public investment for reducing structural gaps, tax policies to reduce inequality and promote environmental sustainability, and the mobilization of financing to expand fiscal space.
The event will be inaugurated on Monday, May 26 at 2:30 p.m. local time in Chile (GMT -4) by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s executive secretary; Luis Mateos Paramio, acting commercial attaché for Spain’s embassy in Chile; and Javiera Martínez, director, budget office, ministry of finance of Chile.
At the 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 of relevance 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, in the framework of the XXXVII Fiscal Seminar, the findings of the 2025 edition of the Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean report will be presented on Tuesday, May 27. This publication is prepared jointly by ECLAC, the OECD, CIAT and the IDB group.
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