Main Activities

Extra-regional relations:

• Seal business and cooperation proposals for Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Conduct systematic analyses of the impact of global economic decisions and processes on the economies of the region.

• Assess processes linked to international business, commercial, economic and financial negotiations and the implications of such processes for regional development and integration.

• Support Member States, whenever necessary, with respect to their participation in the relevant deliberations and negotiations.

Intra-regional relations:

• Support the development, coordination and convergence of the sub-regional processes of Latin America Latin and the Caribbean.

• Maintain a systematic analysis of the relevant factors with a view to ensuring the harmonious development of integration between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Promote strategies to identify operational efforts that will help further the coordination and convergence of economic integration throughout the region.

• Consider and develop proposals aimed at creating an institutional framework of integration that will encourage coordination and convergence in sub-regional processes.

Economic and Technical Cooperation:

• Promote the flow of multilateral and bilateral cooperation from international agencies and donor countries towards the region and serve as a regional focal point for economic and technical cooperation between developing countries.

• Encourage the exchange of experiences and information on national policies, particularly those of greatest relevance to macroeconomic coordination, the struggle against poverty, social inclusion and international cooperation.

Actions

• Annually holds the meeting of the Latin American Council, at ministerial level, and convenes regional consultation and coordination meetings with high-level officials of member countries on topics of interest in their areas of competence.
   

• Organizes forums with the participation of government and private sector representatives and conducts meetings of experts on specific issues of the regional and global economic agenda.
   

• Maintains close relationships, based on cooperation, with the most important organizations, public institutions, and private entities at regional and international levels.
   

• Develops seminars, courses and workshops on issues of economic interest to the Latin American and Caribbean region, with a view to addressing the needs of government officials, businesspeople, workers, parliamentarians, and academicians.

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