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 supervised by Sebastián Nieto-Parra, Head of the Regional Development Dynamics Division, and managed by Juan Vázquez Zamora, Head of the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit. The report was co-ordinated by Luis Cecchi, Policy Analyst, under the guidance of Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director, and Federico Bonaglia, Deputy Director.
IDB’s contribution was managed by Ian Mills, Unit Chief of the ONE Caribbean Coordination Unit, alongside Valerie Mercer-Blackman, Regional Economic Advisor, under the guidance of Anton Edmunds, General Manager for the Caribbean Country Department. The core team included Daniel Hernaiz Diez de Medina, Economic Lead Specialist and Alejandra Quinonez Sanchez, Operations Associate; supported by Carolyn Robert, Strategic Advisor for the Vice President for Countries and Regional Integration; and Carla Fernández-Durán, Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation Senior Specialist; under the guidance of Anabel González, Vice President for Countries and Regional Integration and Matias Bendersky, General Manager of the Global Partnerships Office.
The report benefited from research, drafting and close collaboration and discussion among various colleagues across these organisations, including Pablo Antolin, Jose Antonio Ardavin, Federico Bonaglia, Bert Brys, Karina Cázarez, Luis Cecchi, Ben Dickinson, Luisa Dressler, Gabriel Di Paolantonio, Abdoulaye Fabregas, Diego Gonzalez-Bendiksen de Zaldivar, Laura Gutiérrez Cadena, Hamadi Hakim, Paul Hondius, Diana Hourani, Johannes Jütting, Paul Lanusse, Zayda Manatta, Thomas Manfredi, Marcela Miranda, Letizia Montinari, Mariana Navarro, Sebastián Nieto Parra, Pierce O’Reilly, René Orozco, Paz Patiño, Cecilia Piemonte, Harry Tonino, Piera Tortora, Juan Vázquez Zamora and Martin Wermelinger (OECD), Diether Beuermann, Liliana Castilleja Vargas, Bernardo Deregibus, Victor Gauto, Monique Graham, Daniel Hernaiz Diez de Medina, Valerie Anne Mercer-Blackman, Travis Klaus Mitchell, Henry Mooney, Onoh-Obasi Okey, Cloe Ortiz de Mendivil, Jose Luis Saboin (IDB). The report was reviewed by various IDB specialists including Lenin Humberto Balza Angulo, Francisco Castro y Ortiz, Carla Fernández-Durán, Jeremy Harris, Phillip Edward Kiefer, Ian Mills, Camilo Jose Pecha Garzón, Pau Puig Gabarro, Gerardo Reyes-Tagle, Enrique Iglesias Rodriguez Ancor Suarez Aleman, Gines Suarez Vazquez, and Hongrui Zhang. Julia Peppino, Anne-Marie Trang and Blanca Ramirez (OECD) provided invaluable administrative support.
The content of the report was enriched by the constructive feedback received during consultation meetings held in June at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, on the margins of the International Economic Forum on Latin America and the Caribbean 2025, as well as in Brussels. 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 participated in consultations and discussions: Gianni Avila (Belize), Seema Baldewsingh (Suriname), Richard Barathe (UNDP), Pepukaye Bardouille (Bridgetown Initiative), Olga Baus-Gibert (European Commission), Paula Bauwens-Hyppolyte (CCCE), Simone Betton-Nayo (Jamaica), Carla Bordas (Dominican Republic), Anthony Brand (OACPS), Larisa Burtin (World Bank), Nuria Carrero Riolobos (AECID), Adriana Castro Gutiérrez (Costa Rica), Antonella Cavalleri (IILA), Lidon Charles (Guyana), Mahallia Chery (Haiti), Yvonne Chileshe (OACPS), Etienne Dausse (MEDEF), Kayla Desbois (Antigua and Barbuda), David Doyle (Saint Kitts and Nevis), Kerrie Drurard Symmonds (Barbados), Donna Forde (Barbados), Cleviston Haynes (Barbados), Osamu Hayakawa (Japan), Ela Horoszko (European Union), Colin James (Trinidad and Tobago), Ronald James (CDB), Raphael Joseph (Grenada), Gianpiero Leoncini (CAF), Gilbert van Lierop (Suriname), Francisco Lima (SIECA), Axel de la Maisonneuve (European Union), Jason Marczak (Atlantic Council), Ellen Martínez de Cooreman (Dominican Republic), Diana Montero Melis (European Commission), Cristina Mora (Costa Rica), Kousha Mortazawi (European Union), Alrich Nicolas (Haiti), Keith Nurse (Trinidad and Tobago), Alejandro Pacheco (UNDP), Ariadna Padron Di Bello (Panama), David Emmanuel Puig Buchel (Dominican Republic), Felippe Ramos (ACS), Andrew Rodgers (Jamaica), Simone Rudder (Barbados), Ronald Saborío (Costa Rica), Juan Sainz (Spain), Davion Sealy (Barbados), Laurent Sillano (European Union), Sasenarine Singh (Guyana), Mark van der Velden (The Netherlands), Joanna Villareal (Panama), Louino Volcy (Haiti), Marc Vothknecht (European Union) and Ignacio Ybáñez (European External Action Service).
In addition to financial support provided by the IDB, the OECD Development Centre and IDB teams express their sincere gratitude to the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID) for additional financial contributions and support.
Finally, many thanks go to the Publications, Communications, Operations and Legal Teams of the OECD Development Centre and IDB, notably to Delphine Grandrieux, Yoann Legendre-Hyldig, Elizabeth Nash and Henri-Bernard Solignac‑Lecomte (OECD), Javier De Ramon, Mercedes Lovaglio Rivas and Sheries Ruddock (IDB) for their expedient work in facilitating the production of this report and associated materials. The authors also sincerely appreciate the editing and proofreading by Mark Foss and Clara Young, respectively.