【Interview with Experts】Three Senior Officials from CEPAL “Economic and Social Impacts and Future Prospects of Covid-19 Crisis on Latin America and the Caribbean”

Japan Latin America and Caribbean Association (JALAC) publishes a quarterly journal（Raten Amerika Jiho） in Japanese. JALAC has been closely following the Covid-19 pandemic, and its economic and social impacts on the LAC region has been widely discussed in numerous articles.

The Winter Issue, published January 2021 (No.1433), covers a series of interviews with people of different backgrounds (international organizations, think-tank experts, public officials, media, and private companies) working directly on the Covid-19 pandemic. In a sense, this special issue gathers the “voices” from people working on the Covid-19 “frontier”.

The Lead-off article of this special issue on Covid-19 is based on an exclusive interview by JALAC with three senior officials at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC: Spanish acronym CEPAL), headquartered in Santiago, Chile. ECLAC tracks the public policies that the 33 countries of the LAC region are implementing to limit the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and offers analyses of the economic and social impacts that these policies will have at the regional, national, and sectoral level. JALAC is pleased to reproduce an unabridged version of this interview conducted in English.

A Japanese version of this interview is also available in an abridged form (Winter Issue No. 1433).