The Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) launched at the moment a Platform for cluster and other territorial productive articulation initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, which seeks to offer visibility to, improve reciprocal cooperation between and strengthen the a number of productive articulation initiatives which might be underway within the area, along with growing their numbers and their contribution to Latin American and Caribbean nations’ productive growth.
The presentation was made throughout a digital occasion that featured opening remarks by ECLAC’s Govt Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and by Ulrich Höcker, Director of the Financial and Social Improvement and Employment Division at Germany’s GIZ, the establishment that supported the Platform’s growth.
“We’ve got the robust conviction, and strongly advocate to nations, that to be able to obtain a extra productive, inclusive and sustainable growth sample, it’s urgently essential to escalate productive growth insurance policies. This goes to the guts of growth fashions within the area, and is important for his or her transformation,” acknowledged ECLAC’s Govt Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.
Ulrich Höcker emphasised the lengthy and fruitful strategic partnership that unites BMZ-GIZ and ECLAC, and he described the Platform’s launch as “one other wonderful instance of our joint endeavors to strengthen and nurture regional boards for technical change and mutual studying.” He praised this specific initiative for “its strategic and technical features, because it not solely addresses the ‘what’ but in addition the ‘how’ for supporting the imaginative and prescient of a extra productive, inclusive and sustainable future.”
On this first stage, the Platform contains an interactive map, which options 258 cluster and different territorial productive articulation initiatives from the area which were georeferenced and characterised, comparable to greater than 40,000 companies in 8 nations. The Platform additionally offers entry to publications, occasions and related information. Different actions shall be taken later, such because the institution of a neighborhood of apply and the event of joint initiatives.
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs underscored that “inside productive growth insurance policies lies the toolbox for orienting development in sure instructions and in direction of greater and extra sustained charges, which is to say, for guiding financial transformation processes in direction of extra inclusive and sustainable growth patterns. Cluster and different territorial productive articulation initiatives are an integral part of that toolbox.”
“It’s not about believing within the magic of the market, or within the magic of the State, however as a substitute within the magic of collaborative processes for productive growth. However these processes should be designed properly. The strategy of cluster and productive articulation initiatives, and their governance ideas, are a robust instrument on the right way to do it,” ECLAC’s Govt Secretary burdened.
Cluster initiatives present governance, administration, route and problem-solving for the worth chains underneath the productive agglomeration the place that governance is non-existent or weak, he defined.
The key structural transformations that Latin America and the Caribbean wants to be able to overcome the low-growth illness, or lure, through which it finds itself entail new investments, new applied sciences, new technological ecosystems, new companies or the expansion of these already in existence, new {qualifications} within the workforce, and new infrastructures, Salazar-Xirinachs specified.
“If we have been making the investments and financial transformations wanted to shut our historic legacy of poverty and informality gaps between city and rural areas, between women and men and between the workforce’s instructional ranges – to call a number of – we might be rising at charges of a minimum of 3%, 4% or 5%,” he asserted.
Though the funding local weather and different macroeconomic features are vital for development, the senior United Nations official mentioned that it’s critical to work on microeconomics, focusing manufacturing efforts on particular sectors by collaborative efforts by the important thing stakeholders in every sector, together with private and non-private actors, academia and vocational coaching facilities, and civil society.
“We at ECLAC have proposed a collection of sectors that may drive or invigorate a productive and technological transformation, which embrace: the vitality transition, electromobility, the round economic system, sustainable tourism, bio-industrialization, the pharmaceutical and life-sciences trade, superior manufacturing, agriculture, Web-enabled fashionable providers, the care society and others,” José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs defined.
The Platform’s particular targets are to foster the change of experiences and good practices; facilitate coaching packages; promote gatherings, initiatives and actions amongst initiatives from totally different areas, nations or areas; undertake analysis on problems with shared curiosity; develop work methodologies and instruments; and encourage regional productive integration, amongst others.
Through the occasion, distinguished specialists analyzed the Platform’s potential for transferring in direction of the development of a regional agenda of cluster and different territorial productive articulation initiatives. They have been Alberto Pezzi, Senior Supervisor of Clusters at ACCIÓ – Company for Enterprise Competitiveness in Catalonia, Spain; Patricia Valdenebro, CEO of TCI Community; Gonzalo Rivas, Head of the Competitiveness, Expertise and Innovation Division on the Inter-American Improvement Financial institution (IDB); Rebeca Vidal, Senior Govt of the Technical and Sectoral Evaluation Division of the Vice Presidency of the Non-public Sector on the CAF-Improvement Financial institution of Latin America and the Caribbean; Sylvia Dohnert, Govt Director of Compete Caribbean; Maryse Roberts, Director of the Division of Financial Improvement of the Group of American States (OAS); and Annalisa Primi, Head of the Financial Transformation and Improvement Division of the OECD Improvement Centre. Serving as moderator was Marco Llinás, Director of ECLAC’s Manufacturing, Productiveness and Administration Division.
These specialists pointed to the Platform’s launch as a contribution to the method of inexperienced industrialization and productive transformation of Latin America and the Caribbean. They burdened that this can be a useful gizmo, centered on territories, that may assist clusters and different productive articulation initiatives within the area to maneuver from evaluation to motion, to reap the benefits of good nationwide, regional and worldwide practices, and to develop a regional agenda on this space. All of the establishments taking part on the panel provided their collaboration to consolidate and improve the Platform’s actions.
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