Launch of the Latin American Economic Outlook 2016: Towards a new partnership with China
PRESS CONFERENCE
OECD Development Centre, ECLAC and CAF to launch their joint Latin American Economic Outlook 2016 – Towards a new partnership with China
Friday 11 December 2015 18:30 - 19:30 P.M.
Venue: salón Pegaso en el Centro de Convenciones de Cartagena de Indias, "Julio César Turbay Ayala", Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
OECD Development Centre - Paris, 7 December 2015 - The ninth edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook will be launched on Friday 11 December at 18:30 P.M at the I Meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Ibero-American Conference, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
This year’s edition analyses in depth the economic linkages between China’s current and future transformation and Latin America’s development model. It proposes a forward-looking framework to discuss trends in this relationship, in the context of a new phase of shifting wealth, the shift of the economy´s centre of gravity from OECD economies towards emerging economies.
The report will be presented by:
- Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- Enrique García Rodríguez, President and Chief Executive Officer, Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)
- Mario Pezzini, Director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Centre
With honourable interventions by:
- Maria Angela Holguin, Chancellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia
- Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary General, Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB)
- High representatives of the Ibero-American Governments
The Outlook will be under embargo until Friday 11 December 2015, 18:30 P.M Colombia time (GMT -5). Requests for information, interviews or/and advance copies, available in both English and Spanish to be sent the day before release, should be directed to Bochra Kriout (; +33 145 24 82 96).
More information on http://www.latameconomy.org/en/. You are invited to include this Internet link in reports on the Outlook. Follow the launch on #LEO2016.
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