This report is co-produced by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The contribution of the OECD Development Centre to the report was led and managed by Sebastián Nieto-Parra and Juan Vázquez Zamora, Head and Deputy-Head, respectively, of the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit. Co-ordination was led by Luis Cecchi, Policy Analyst at the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit, under the guidance of Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director, and Federico Bonaglia, Deputy Director.
IDB’s contribution was led by David Rosenblatt, Regional Economic Advisor for the Caribbean Country Department and Ian Mills, Unit Chief of the One Caribbean Coordination Unit, under the guidance of Anton Edmunds, Manager for the Caribbean Country Department. Co-ordination was led by Fazia Pusterla, representative of the IDB Group Office in Europe; Carolyn Robert, Strategic Advisor for the Vice-President for Countries; Carina Cockburn, Country Representative in Barbados; Carla Fernández-Durán, Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Senior Specialist; Bernardo Deregibus, Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Specialist; Daniel Hernaiz Diez de Medina, Strategic Task Force Lead Economist; Nadia Rocha, Principal Advisor and Alejandra Quiñonez, Executive Coordinator, both at the Vice-Presidency for Countries; under the guidance of Anabel González, Vice President for Countries and Matias Bendersky, Manager of the Office of Outreach and Partnerships.
The report benefited from the research, drafting and fruitful collaboration among various authors across these organisations, including: Gerard Alleng (IDB), Jose Antonio Ardavin (OECD), Andrew Auerbach (OECD), Severine Baranger (OECD), Dieter Beuermann (IDB), Federico Bonaglia (OECD), Steve Brito Hernandez (IDB), Adriana Caicedo (OECD), Olivier Cattaneo (OECD), Luis Cecchi (OECD), Rita Da Costa (OECD), Victoria de la Puente (OECD), Bernardo Deregibus (IDB), Ben Dickinson (OECD), Gabriel Di Paolantonio (OECD), Saleh El Kadre (OECD), Abdoulaye Fabregas (OECD), Carla Fernández-Durán (IDB), María Garcin Zaldívar (OECD), Paolo Giordano (IDB), Diego Gonzalez-Bendiksen de Zaldivar (OECD), Laura Gutiérrez Cadena (OECD), Hamadi Hakim (OECD), Daniel Hernaiz Diez de Medina (IDB), Tomas Hos (OECD), Martina Lejtreger (OECD), Zayda Manatta (OECD), Thomas Manfredi (OECD), Nathalia Montoya González (OECD), Mariana Navarro (OECD), Sebastián Nieto Parra (OECD), René Orozco (OECD), Lorenzo Pavone (OECD), Cécilia Piemonte (OECD), Arturo Pita Gussoni (IDB), Joan Prats Cabrera (IDB), Fazia Pusterla (IDB), David Rosenblatt (IDB), Ben Roseth (IDB), Callum Ryan (OECD), Harry Tonino (OECD), Piera Tortora (OECD), Juan Vázquez Zamora (OECD) and Pia Zanetti Balparda (IDB). Rosario Hernando Cruz (OECD), Julia Peppino (OECD) and Javier de Ramón (IDB) provided invaluable administrative support throughout the elaboration of the report.
The content of the report was enriched by the constructive feedback received during the consultation meeting held virtually on the 21st of March and the Caribbean Development Dynamics Working Lunch, held at the OECD on the 22nd of May, at the margins of the International Economic Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, and with the presence of Enrique Iglesias, President, Fundación Astur, as a special invitee. In addition to the LAC delegates to the Governing Board of the OECD Development Centre, we are grateful to the experts, academics, private-sector representatives and other public servants who joined us during the consultation meeting, the working lunch and bilateral meetings: Olga Julissa Anzueto Aguilar (Guatemala), Seema Baldewsingh (Suriname), Bevon Bernard-Henry (ACS), Symone Betton Nayo (Jamaica), Mauricio Cabrera Leal (Colombia), Rodrigo Cifuentes (CAF), Monica Colomer (Spain), Colin Michael Connelly (Trinidad and Tobago), Ignacio Corlazzoli (CAF), Joseph Cox (CARICOM), Amélie de Montchalin (France), Lisa Douglas-Paul (ACS), David P. Doyle (Saint Kitts and Nevis), María Durán (CAF), Almudena Fernández (UNDP), Félix Fernández-Shaw (European Commission), Cynthia Filártiga (Paraguay), Malcolm Geere (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), Paul Gomez (Bahamas), Cleviston Haynes (Barbados), Karen Hernández (Dominican Republic), Rafael Hoyuela (CAF), Daniela Ibarra (OAS), Len Ishmael (OECS), Raphael Joseph (Grenade), Florian Luetticken (EEAS in Barbados), Luis Fernando Medina (Colombia), Johakson Moncada (ACS), Natalia Moreno Rigollot (Telefonica), Keith Nurse (College of Science Technology and Applied Arts, Trinidad and Tobago), Nahuel Oddone (ECLAC), Joaquim Pedro Penna (Brazil), Miguel Posadas Arias (AECID), Edgar Picon-Prado (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change), Rodolfo Sabonge (ACS), Issamary Sanchez Ortega (Panama), Jo Spalburg (Caribbean Chamber of Commerce in Europe), Charles Trottmann (AFD) and Maria José Zambrano (AFD).
Finally, many thanks go to the Publications and Communications Division of the OECD Development Centre, notably to Aida Buendia, Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash and Henri-Bernard Solignac‑Lecomte, for their steadfast patience and expedient work on the production of this report and associated materials. The authors also sincerely appreciate the editing and proofreading activities undertaken by Mark Foss and Clara Young, respectively.