Partners in this report are the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), CAF -development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-, the European Commission and the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This report is supported by the Directorate General for International Partnerships of the European Commission (INTPA).
The OECD Development Centre’s contribution to this report was led and managed by Juan Vázquez Zamora, Head of the Centre’s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Unit, and co-ordinated by René Orozco and Mariana Navarro, Economists in the same team. Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director of the OECD Development Centre, provided overall guidance, together with Federico Bonaglia, Deputy Director, and Sebastián Nieto Parra, Head of the Regional Development Dynamics Division. ECLAC’s contribution was led by Marco Llinás, Director of the Production, Productivity and Management Division and Sebastián Rovira, Chief of the Digital Transformation Unit, under the guidance of José Manuel Salazar Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC. The contribution from CAF was led by Veronica Frisancho Robles, former Chief Economist at CAF; Ignacio Corlazzoli, Manager of Resource Mobilisation and Global Partnerships Management; and Jessica Roldán Peña, Director of Macroeconomic Studies, under the guidance of Sergio Díaz Granados, Executive President of CAF. Institutional support during the final stages of the project was provided by Daniel Ortega, Manager of Development Planning and Impact and Acting Head of Knowledge Management at CAF. The European Commission’s contribution was led by the Directorate-General for International Partnerships (INTPA), with the support of Andrea Colombo, Emma Clua Vandellòs, and Marc Vothknecht, under the guidance of Diana Montero Melis, Deputy Head of Unit, and Eric Beaume, Head of Unit for Regional Programmes for Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Felix Fernández-Shaw, former Director for Latin America and the Caribbean and Relations with all Overseas Countries and Territories and Myriam Ferran, Deputy Director General for Directorate-General for International Partnerships (INTPA).
Many authors contributed to the research and drafting of this report, including: Carl Bernadac, Marie-Pierre Bourzai, Alain Humen, Camille Laporte, Amaury Mulliez and María José Zambrano (AFD); Lian Allub, Richard Condor, Walter Cont, Oswaldo López, Facundo Peressi, and Jessica Roldán Peña (CAF); Sebastián Herreros, Marco Llinás, Areum Han, Keiji Inoue, Esteban Pérez, Maria Cecilia Plottier and Sebastian Rovira, (ECLAC); Andrea Colombo and Diana Montero Melis (DG INTPA); Luis Cecchi, Rita Da Costa, Maya Duque, Cecilia Esteche, Simón Gómez, Laura Gutiérrez, Thomas Manfredi, Mariana Navarro, René Orozco, Pedro Ribadeneira and Juan Vázquez Zamora (OECD). Julia Peppino (OECD) provided invaluable administrative support throughout the elaboration of the report.
Several OECD experts and colleagues were notably active and supportive during the production process, providing views, input and comments, including Sergio Ampudia, José Antonio Ardavín, Alejandra Bernal, Diego Botero, Aida Caldera, Lissete Dávila, Marta Encinas-Martín, Paula Garda, Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella, Joerg Husar (IEA), Juan De Laiglesia, Letizia Montinari, Hyeshin Park, Claudia Ramirez, Pablo Timón Iglesias and Javier Zamorano.
The content of the report was enriched by constructive feedback received during an informal consultation meeting with the LAC countries and Members of the OECD Development Centre Governing Board on 10 March 2026 and a virtual Experts’ Meeting on 11-12 May 2026. In addition to the LAC delegates to the Governing Board of the OECD Development Centre, we are especially grateful to the experts, academics, private sector representatives and other public servants who joined us during these consultations and additional informal meetings: Carl Bernadac (AFD), Juan Blyde (IDB), Bruno Capuzzi (Insper Agro Global), Antonio Gomes (OECD), Ana Fernanda Maiguashca (Private Council on Competitiveness of Colombia), Cristina Manzano (SEGIB), Luiz de Mello (OECD), El Iza Mohamedou (OECD), Hugo Ñopo (World Bank), José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University), Rovitzon Ortíz Olaya (DNP), Javier Pérez (Banco de España), Érika Rodríguez Pinzón (Fundación Carolina), Juan Ruiz (BBVA), Silvia Sorescu (OECD) and Pepe Zhang (CIG).
The country notes benefited from constructive input, scrutiny and verification by delegations to the OECD from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico, as well as the embassies in France of Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay and the embassy in Ireland of Barbados. OECD delegations and embassies also co-ordinated the relevant inputs from different national ministries and governmental areas.
The OECD Development Centre expresses its sincere gratitude to the Agence française de développement (AFD), the Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP) of Colombia, the European Union, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and Universidad del Rosario for their support to the Latin American Economic Outlook report.
Finally, many thanks go to the Publications and Communications Division of the OECD Development Centre, notably Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash, Elizabeth Owuor, Rai Santana 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 activities undertaken by Mark Foss and the translation into Spanish co-ordinated by Alejandro Barranco, Julia Gregory, Alexander Summerfield, Lucía Luque López and María Pérez Belmonte.