Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, led the inauguration of a seminar on the issue in the framework of the Ninth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, which is being held in Mexico.
The meeting will also analyse the progress made by the working groups of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), the Executive Committee of which is holding its sixteenth meeting on 4 to 6 April.
The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Alicia Bárcena, inaugurated in Quito the eighth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas.