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Economic Commission for Latin America

Economic Commission for Latin America

5.1
A United Nations group that helps Latin American countries grow their economies
  • proper noun
  • Formal
translation icon : Comisión Económica para América Latina
  • The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) focuses on promoting sustainable development and economic growth in the region.
  • United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America
  • Nations Economic Commission for Latin America

Examples

  • After the Morales administration, the proportion of natural resources in total exports grew from almost 90% in 2006 to more than 92% in 2010, according to the databases of the Economic Commission for Latin America.

    Academic text (2012)

  • For more than 40 years, Latin America was an economically closed region adhering to a strategy of import-substituting industrialization (ISI), as recommended by the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), for example, are undertaking basic reassessments of their programs to achieve economic restructuring and cooperation.

    Academic text (1991)

  • According to the Economic Commission for Latin America, several countries in the region have made significant strides in reducing poverty over the past decade.

  • The Economic Commission for Latin America, established by the UN, provides valuable data and analysis to support policymakers in promoting equitable economic development.

Surface Forms

Economic Commission for Latin America main

Morphology

economic + commission + for + Latin + America

The phrase is fully compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'economic', 'commission', 'for', 'Latin' and 'America' can infer it denotes a commission concerned with economic matters relating to Latin America. This naming pattern (adjective + agency + preposition + region) is cross-linguistically common, so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

Economic Commission for Latin America was created by the United Nations for a commission that studies and helps the economy of Latin America. So today it means the UN group that collects data and gives advice to help the region's economy grow.