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The Americas Desk of the Development Centre undertakes high-quality analysis and organises policy dialogue on the trends, challenges and opportunities for development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Desk produces comparative studies on development issues -- fiscal policy, migration and remittances, macroeconomics, the middle class, economic reform -- which feed debate and the exchange of experiences between the OECD, its member countries and the emerging economies of Latin America. (more...)
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25-Jan-2012
Increased domestic resource mobilization is widely accepted as crucial for countries to successfully meet the challenges of development and achieve higher living standards for all their people.
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25-Jan-2012
Revenue Statistics in Latin America, a joint publication by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations, was launched in Santiago, Chile on 25 January, 2012.
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25-Jan-2012
The Fiscal Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean (Observatorio Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe or OFILAC) launched on 24 January aims to improve the quality of fiscal policy in Latin America by providing access to analysis, data, monitoring and debates on fiscal policy throughout the region.
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25-Jan-2012
New working paper release from Fedesarrollo on Making reform in Colombia: the process of regional transfer reform. This paper was prepared for The Korea Development Institute and the OECD project on Making Reform Happen in Developing Countries to promote debate in Busan at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness.
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06-Dec-2011
During the opening speech of the 8th National Congress on Infrastructure in Cartagena, Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia cited Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre, referring to the Colombian assessment prepared by the Development Centre presenting project costs and the final cost estimate on Colombian infrastructure projects (video in Spanish).
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10-Nov-2011
The "Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO) 2012: Transforming the State for Development" was presented at the Peruvian Central Bank in Lima on 9 November 2011 (program and presentation available in Spanish).
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28-Oct-2011
The Latin American Economic Outlook 2012: Transforming the State for Development was presented by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena during the XXI Iberoamerican Summit in Asunción, Paraguay on 28 October 2011.
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28-Oct-2011
This paper studies the political economy aspects and the policy making process of reforms in what authors identify as the five critical steps through the “life cycle” of a policy reform: the Planning, Dialogue, Adoption, Implementation and Sustainability stages.
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The Latin American Economic Outlook 2012: Transforming the State for Development will be launched at the Ibero-American Summit in Asunción, Paraguay, on Friday 28 October at 12:00 GMT-4. For the first time, this long-standing flagship of the OECD Development Centre is co-published with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The report will be presented by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena in Asunción in the presence of high representatives Ibero-American states.
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26-Sep-2011
The impact of democratic transitions on budgeting and public expenditures in Latin America was presented by Angel Melguizo at the 4th Annual Meeting of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Senior Budget Officials. The meeting was organised by the OECD Directorate of Public Governance and the Lebanese Finance Ministry in Beirut, September 21-22, 2011. Representants from 11 MENA countries and international experts from UNDP, IMF, WB, EC debated on recent developments and challenges for public budgeting in the MENA region. For more details, click here.
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15-Sep-2011
Angel Melguizo participated at the 2nd Meeting of the Inter American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) Network of Tax Studies, held in Bogota on 13-15 September 2011, co-organised with the Colombian Tax Administration (DIAN) and GIZ (German federal enterprise on sustainable development).
Participants from 15 Latin American Tax Administrations and experts from ECLAC, IDB and IMF debated on the possibilities of reforming the Personal Income Tax.
See the OECD Development Centre presentation on automatic stabilization from direct taxation.
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15-Sep-2011
Christian Daude, Head of the Americas Desk (a.i.), presented the main results of the LEO 2011 at a roundtable on the middle class and mobility in Latin America in Barcelona. This two-day workshop, jointly organized by the Institut d'Analisi Economica and the World Bank, aimed to discuss analytical work on the nature and causes of socio-economic mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean. Within this context, invited presentations from leading scholars in the field, including Nancy Birdsall, Francois Bourguignon, Gary Fields, James Foster and Markus Jantti participated.
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on 11-Jul-2011
Nora Lustig (Tulane University, Center for Global Development and Inter-American Dialogue) presented her latest research on poverty, inequality and public policies in Latin America at a Seminar organised by the Development Centre on 11 July at the OECD Headquarters. Decreasing returns to education and targeted conditional cash transfers contribute to explain the bulk of the reduction of inequality in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru during the last decade. See the presentation.
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on 13-Jun-2011
The region’s macro-economic outlook and the role of the middle classes in Latin America’s development are discussed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson and Angel Melguizo at the the Central Bank of Peru on 13 June 2011, based on the Latin American Economic Outlook 2011. The report shows that, contrary to expectations, Latin America’s middle sectors are still economically vulnerable, few have university degrees and many work in informal employment.
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The OECD Development Centre, the Ibero-American Secretariat, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Government of Mexico co-organise a policy dialogue event to discuss fiscal policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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04-May-2011
InnovaLatino.org is the result of a joint study between INSEAD and the OECD Development Centre with the support of Fundación Telefónica. The report is based on a survey of 1500 manufacturers highlighting innovative business models and marketing methods in Latin America.
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04-May-2011
The Latin American Economic Outlook 2011: How middle-class is Latin America? was presented in Beijing on 26 April 2011, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (presentations in Spanish).
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12-Apr-2011
Hamlet Gutierrez presented the 2011 Latin American Economic Outlook in the VII Meeting of the Budgeting for Results Network, that took place in Kingston, Jamaica between 4-6 April 2011.
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04-Apr-2011
Christian Daude and Angel Melguizo, economists of the Development Centre, participated at the 13th Public Finance Workshop of the Central Bank of Italy “Rules and institutions for sound fiscal policy after the crisis.” This event assembled experts on fiscal policy from Finance Ministries, Central Banks, international organizations and academia. Daude and Melguizo presented a paper, co-authored with Luis Carranza, former Minister of Finance of Peru, of how fiscal rules may contribute to accelerate public investment in infrastructure in Latin America, based on the experience of Peru.
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14-Mar-2011
The Latin American Economic Outlook 2011: How middle-class is Latin America? was presented in Santo Domingo on 9 March 2011, at the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic.
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02-Mar-2011
In Latin America, persistence in educational achievements across generations is high compared to other parts of the world. That is, not only is the income distribution in Latin America highly unequal, but profound differences in opportunities persist from one generation to the next. The paper discusses factors behind this performance, and tools for boosting upward mobility in the region.
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15-Feb-2011
Social protection coverage is quite low in Latin America. This situation, irrespective of the type of pension scheme, represents a challenge for public policy since these low levels of affiliation and irregular contribution histories indicate that pensions will be insufficient in the coming decades. This paper describes the relationship between pension protection and labour informality in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Mexico by income level, using several rounds of national household surveys.
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26-Jan-2011
The uneven global recovery is challenging Latin America and the Caribbean, but the region will emerge stronger from the crisis with high growth potential if it continues deepening integration into the global economy. This was one of the main conclusions reached by leaders and experts participating in the III International Economic Forum Latin America & the Caribbean 2011, organized for the third consecutive year by the OECD Development Centre, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and France’s Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry.
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Launch of the 2012 Latin American Economic Outlook: Transforming the State for Development
