Series on Public Policy
Connecting the Dots: Five Development Trends for 2025 in Latin America and the Caribbean
January 13, 2025
Event Details
January 16, 2025
11:00 AM (NY)
Online
This first Policy Dialogue “Connecting the Dots: Five Development Trends for 2025 in Latin America and the Caribbean” will depart from the diagnosis offered by the upcoming Regional Human Development and Democracy and Development reports to reveal the pressures that are hindering progress across Latin America and the Caribbean: new and rapidly evolving technologies, increasingly fragmented societies, and a rapidly changing climate, that add to persistent slow economic growth, low productivity, and social inequality. While these trends are not new, further analyzing and understanding these ongoing issues, can help us better shaping strategies for advancing human development in 2025.
By engaging experts, decision-makers, and UNDP partners, in collaborative, evidence-based debates, we aim at uncovering the ‘escape valves’ or solutions that will allow the pressure from these trends to be released and transform into social progress and coexistence.
This Dialogue will bring together:
- Michelle Muschett, UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
- María del Carmen Sacasa, UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Almudena Fernandez, Chief Economist for the UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Jose Vicente Troya, Manager, Regional Hub for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP (TBC)
- José Cruz Osorio, Coordinator, LAC Democracy and Development Report.