Partners of this report are the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), CAF - Development bank of Latin America, the European Union (EU) and the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This report is supported under the Pillar 1 of the European Union Regional Facility for Development in Transition for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), an EU-led initiative, jointly implemented with the OECD and its Development Centre and the ECLAC.
The report was led and managed by Sebastián Nieto-Parra, Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit at the OECD Development Centre, with the support of Paula Cerutti and René Orozco, Economists at the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit of the OECD Development Centre, under the guidance of Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre, and Federico Bonaglia, Deputy Director of the OECD Development Centre. ECLAC’s contribution was led by Sebastián Rovira, Economic Affairs Officer, under the guidance of Mario Cimoli, Deputy Executive Secretary of the ECLAC. The contribution from CAF-Development Bank of Latin America was led by Adriana Arreaza, Director of Macroeconomic Studies.
The production of this report was co-ordinated by Paula Cerutti, Economist at the Latin America and Caribbean Unit of the OECD Development Centre. The report benefited from the research, drafting and fruitful collaboration between various authors across these organisations, including: Adriana Caicedo (OECD), Cristina Cabutto (OECD), Rita Da Costa (OECD), Linda Smiroldo Herda (OECD), Lyse Marques (OECD), René Orozco (OECD), Nunzia Saporito (ECLAC), Bruno Pantaleao (OECD), Daniel Titelman (ECLAC), Manuel Toledo (CAF) and Juan Vazquez Zamora (OECD). Agustina Vierheller and Julia Peppino (OECD) provided invaluable administrative support throughout the elaboration of the report.
A group of experts and colleagues have been particularly active and supportive along the production process, providing views, inputs, comments and strategic orientation to the report. We would like to highlight the support of José Antonio Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Lucio Castro (Consultant), Jonathan Glennie (CEPEI and the Joep Lange Institute), Stephany Griffith-Jones (Columbia University), Natali Maldonado (Universidad del Rosario), Andrés Mariño (Universidad del Rosario), Angel Melguizo (Former Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit at the OECD Development Centre), Marco Mira D’Ercole (OECD), Jose Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University), Pelayo Roces Fernández (EU), Claudio Salinas (EU) and Katherine Scrivens (OECD).
The content of the report was enriched by constructive feedback received during the LEO 2019 Experts Meeting that took place in Paris on 7 September 2018, the Development in Transition seminar in Santiago on 2 and 3 October 2018, and the LEO 2019 Consultation Meeting in Paris on 11 December 2018. We are particularly grateful to the experts who joined us: Martín Abeles (ECLAC), Lais Abramo (ECLAC), Gloria Alonso (DNP, Colombia), Mónica Aspe (former Chair of the Governing Board of the OECD Development Centre), Juan Carlos Berganza (Banco de España), Luis Bértola (Universidad de la República), Laurence Boone (OECD), Ana Ciuti (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Argentina), Guillermo Cruces (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), María del Pilar Garrido Gonzalo (Ministry of Planning, Costa Rica), Carlos de Miguel (ECLAC), Antonio de Paula Oliveira (CGEE, Brazil), Martine Durand (OECD), Ariel Emirian (Société Générale), Joao Carlos Ferraz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Luis Foncerrada (Universidad Nacional Autónoma), Martín Francos (Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development, Dominican Republic), Ricardo French-Davis (Universidad de Chile), Guillermo González (Ministry of the Environment, Chile), Camila Gramkow (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research), Nicolas Grosman (McKinsey Global Institute), Gonzalo Hernández Licona (CONEVAL, Mexico), Stephanie Araya Jiménez (Ministry of Planning, Costa Rica), Jakob Kapeller (University of Linz), Jorge Katz (Universidad de Chile), David Kupfer (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Claudio Maggi (Universidad de Concepción), Alejandro Mentaberry (Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina), Nohelia Millán (INMUJERES [National Institute for Women], Uruguay), Jorge Moreira Da Silva (OECD), Michelle Muschett (Ministry of Social Development, Panama), Enrique O’Farrill (AGCID, Chile), Juan Daniel Oviedo (DANE, Colombia), Luis Henrique Paiva (Ministry of Social Development, Brazil), Grace Perez-Navarro (OECD), Rafael Puyana (DNP, Colombia), Luis Rappoport (Ministry of the Interior, Argentina), Auke Rijpma (Utrecht University), Dave Seerattan (University of West Indies), Nancy Magaly Silva Sebastian (APCI, Peru), Elkin Velázquez (UN Habitat), Juan Yermo (OECD) and Stella Zervoudaki (Delegation of the EU to Chile).
A special thanks goes to experts for providing boxes or inputs on a range of topics covered in the report, including: Stefan Agne (EU), Melinda Brown (OECD), Leticia Casan Jensen (EU), Ana Teodora Deaconu (EU), Mario de la Hoz Schilling (EU), Jason Gagnon (OECD), Paola Gosparini (EU), Michelle Harding (OECD), Florian Luetticken (EU), Sergio Martin-Moreno (EU), Peggy Martinello (EU Programme EUROsociAL), Hyeshin Park (OECD), José Antonio Sanahuja (Fundacion Carolina), Juan Manuel Santomé (EU Programme EUROsociAL), Michael Stemmer (OECD) and Jacob Tamm (EU).
A group of colleagues from the OECD provided insightful comments and discussions that significantly improved the report: Angel Alonso Arroba (OECD), Sonia Araujo (OECD), Jens Arnold (OECD), Frederic Boehm (OECD), Nils Axel Braathen (OECD), Silvia Da Rin Pagnetto (OECD), Paula Garda (OECD), Alessandro Goglio (OECD), Eric Gonnard (OECD), Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella (OECD), Katia Karousakis (OECD), Eija Kiiskinen (OECD), Juan de Laiglesia (OECD), Kostas Panagiotopoulos (OECD) and Paolo Veneri (OECD).
The country notes benefited from constructive inputs, scrutiny and verification by delegations to the OECD from Chile and Mexico, as well as the embassies in France of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
The OECD Development Centre would also like to express its sincere gratitude to the Agence Française de Développement, Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP) of Colombia, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Telefónica and Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) for their financial backing of the Latin American Economic Outlook.
Finally, many thanks go to the Publications and Communications Division of the OECD Development Centre, in particular Aida Buendía, Delphine Grandrieux, Elisa López Roldán, Elizabeth Nash, Irit Perry and Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, for their steadfast patience and expedient work on the production of this report and associated materials. We also appreciate the support received from the OECD Mexico Centre, particularly by Alejandro Camacho, and the OECD Public Affairs and Communications Directorate, including that of Anne-Lise Prigent and Laurence Gerrer-Thomas. The authors also sincerely appreciate the editing activities undertaken by Linda Smiroldo Herda, from the OECD Development Centre, Mark Foss and Jane Marshall; and the translation and Spanish editing services provided by Gilda Moreno, Carmen Navarrete, Gerardo Noriega and Liliana Tafur.