Business View Caribbean - May 2025

and public investment for reducing structural gaps, tax policies to reduce inequality and promote environmental sustainability, and the mobilization of financing to expand fiscal space. The event will be inaugurated on Monday, May 26 at 2:30 p.m. local time in Chile (GMT-4) by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s executive secretary; Luis Mateos Paramio, acting commercial attaché for Spain’s embassy in Chile; and Javiera Martínez, director, budget office, ministry of finance of Chile. At the meeting, ECLAC will release the Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025, an annual publication in which the United Nations regional organization examines topics of relevance to the regional debate on fiscal policy. In addition to analyzing the evolution of the main fiscal trends in 2024, the report explores issues such as tax incentives for fostering environmental sustainability and the macroeconomic effects of public investment in the region. In addition, in the framework of the XXXVII Fiscal Seminar, the findings of the 2025 edition of the Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean report will be presented on Tuesday, May 27. This publication is prepared jointly by ECLAC, the OECD, CIAT and the IDB group. 10 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 12, ISSUE 05

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