Latin America faces critical challenges as it enters the second half of 2015. What is the regional economic outlook for the rest of the year and for 2016, and how will it affect efforts to reduce poverty and inequality? What new policies are needed to sustain progress on the social agenda? What is the state of the region’s global economic relations, particularly with China?
Alicia Bárcena, a member of the Inter-American Dialogue’s Board of Directors, joins Dialogue President Michael Shifter for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of economic affairs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Bárcena has a longstanding and distinguished career focused on public policy and environmental and sustainability issues. Before assuming her current position as ECLAC’s executive secretary in 2008, she served as chef de cabinet to former Secretary-General Kofi Annan and UNDP’s coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable Development Programme. She is also founding director of the Earth Council in Costa Rica.
