LatinNews Daily Report - 03 October 2012

ECONOMY & POLITICS | Eclac no longer to actively participate in Chile’s Casen. On 2 October the executive secretary of the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac), Alicia Bárcena, announced that following the recent controversy over the latest socio-economic characterisation report (Casen), Eclac will no longer collaborate with the Chilean government on calculating the country’s poverty figures. Bárcena said Eclac will now only provide “advice when it comes to the measurement of economic indicators” rather than be more actively involved as it had been in Chile, where the commission is headquartered. Bárcena said that Chile is the only country in which Eclac had a direct participation in a government-run economic survey and that its decision not to continue to be directly involved in the Casen is an attempt to homogenise Eclac’s activities in all the countries in which it is present.

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