Latin America and the Caribbean
After a decade of progress, the region needs innovative inclusive-growth policies to escape the middle-income trap and strengthen its emerging middle class. We stimulate an open policy dialogue with innovative regional perspectives, and support reform efforts with country-specific and thematic work.
Towards renewed partnerships for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean
How can LAC economies attract more environmentally conscious investors? What policies can give impetus to the greener, strategic sectors? Watch the Forum LIVE!
Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023
Tax revenues as a share of GDP in LAC rebounded to their pre-pandemic level in 2021 amid an economic recovery and higher commodity prices. Read the full report.
Multi-dimensional Review of El Salvador
Despite great progress in the country, significant development challenges remain: to accelerate economic growth, create more and better jobs for youth, improve the provision of education and health, and better manage fragile natural resources.
Multi-dimensional Review of the Dominican Republic - Towards Greater Well-being for All
The Dominican Republic has made strides on many socioeconomic fronts, but progress on different dimensions of well-being has been insufficient.
Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO) 2022: Towards a green and just transition
The green transition can be an economic and social game changer, for Latin America and the Caribbean, says new report launched at the sideline of COP27.
How’s Life in Latin America?
Well-being weakened in Latin America as pandemic hits, data show.
Latin America and the Caribbean in the time of COVID-19: Preventing the vulnerable from falling behind (in Spanish)
Is COVID-19 widening educational gaps in Latin America? Three lessons for urgent policy action
Informality in Latin America in the post COVID-19 era: towards a more formal “new normal”?
Public debt and COVID-19. Paying for the crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean
In Spanish: Potencializar los impuestos subnacionales en América Latina y el Caribe en tiempos del Covid-19
Latin American Economic Outlooks
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2022: Towards a green and just transition
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2021: Working Together for a Better Recovery
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2020: Digital Transformation for Building Back Better
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2019: Development in Transition
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2018: Rethinking Institutions for Development
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2017: Youth, Skills and Entrepreneurship
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2016: Towards a New Partnership with China
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2015: Education, Skills and Innovation for Development
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2014: Logistics and competitiveness for development
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2013: SME Policies for Structural Change
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2012: Transforming the State for Development
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2011: How Middle-Class is Latin America?
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2010: Migration and Remittances in Latin America
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2009: Fiscal Policy
- Latin American Economic Outlook 2008
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