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The ECOSOC will convene a special meeting of the Council on "The future of work: towards a productive, inclusive and sustainable global society to take place on 23-24 January 2024 at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

The ECOSOC will convene a special meeting of the Council on "The future of work: towards a productive, inclusive and sustainable global society to take place on 23-24 January 2024 at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

The ECOSOC will convene a special meeting of the Council on "The future of work: towards a productive, inclusive and sustainable global society to take place on 23-24 January 2024 at the Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

Extended period of low economic growth looms large, undermining progress on sustainable development.

Press Briefing on the launch of the World of Debt Report from the UN Global Crisis Response Group. (Virtually, from Geneva) Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and (in person, NY UNHQ) Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

Press briefing by António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, on the launch the World of Debt Report from the UN Global Crisis Response Group.

Speakers: Shantanu Mukherjee, DESA's Director of the Economic Analysis and Policy Division, and Hamid Rashid, lead author of the report and Chief of the Global Economic Monitoring Branch, Economic Analysis and Policy Division in DESA.

The 18th Raúl Prebisch Lecture will be given by Mr. José Antonio Ocampo, Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Ukraine.

Panel discussion with representatives from the UN system.

Panel discussions with participation of relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, young people, academia and civil society representatives. 

Opening plenary meeting including a briefing by the Secretary-General on the cluster of proposals, followed by an informal plenary debate with the participation of Member States and Permanent Observers.