ESCWA and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) are organizing a joint regional webinar to promote resilient and agile statistics that support countries in implementing decisions based on statistical evidence for an inclusive and sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery.
The webinar aims at:
- Improving price statistics through the increased comparability of price indices
- Developing new outputs and indicators to assess economic performance and comparability of macroeconomic indicators
- Introducing innovative price data collection tools that complement traditional tools
- Increasing efficiency and facilitating collection at times of crisis.
The webinar features a wide participation from different member countries of ESCWA, ECLAC and the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), in addition to the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).