The economic review examines the economic and financial outlook for the Latin America and the Caribbean region.
Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean
Economic reviews
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REPORT Oct 09, 2024
Continued inequality, high taxes on productive investment that limit growth, and continued lack of fiscal space have raised taxing wealth as a possible means of addressing all three issues.
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REPORT Apr 10, 2024
Competition: The Missing Ingredient for Growth?
Latin America and the Caribbean has made slow but consistent progress addressing the imbalances induced by the pandemic. However, challenges remain. Growth may be enhanced by inducing more competition in the region.
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REPORT Oct 03, 2023
The region faces the mutually reinforcing triple challenges of low growth, limited fiscal space, and citizen dissatisfaction. Expanding digital connectivity offers a possibility to make progress on all three fronts.
Annual Flagship Reports
These review the economic and financial outlook of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. They also cover the short-term prospects and provide a deep analysis of the internal and external factors affecting the region's economic and financial performance.
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REPORT Jun 06, 2025
Latin America and the Caribbean has lost not decades but a century of growth due to its inability to learn¡ªto identify, adapt, and implement the new technologies emerging since the Second Industrial Revolution.
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REPORT Feb 26, 2024
Using new data and methods, this report shows that deindustrialization, distance, and divisions offer intertwined explanations for the urban productivity paradox in the region
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REPORT Jun 07, 2021
A region known for its volatility, the region has suffered severe economic and social setbacks from crises, that have taken their toll on careers, wage growth, and productivity.
Regional Studies
These are one of our main lines of policy-oriented research. They focus on topics that are central to economic and social development policies in the region. Typically, they are relevant to different sectors and countries.
Research teams for these studies generally involve experts from outside the Office of the Chief Economist, including top internationally renowned researchers from universities and think tanks in the region.
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REPORT Mar 30, 2025
This report presents new empirical research that shows how competition policy in the region has effectively boosted productivity growth and improved market outcomes.
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REPORT Nov 11, 2024
This report provides a conceptual framework to assess and provide guidance on the regional government analytics agenda and how to harvest the benefits of GovTech investments.
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REPORT Aug 07, 2024
In low- and middle-income economies, public spending policies diverge significantly from those of industrialized nations due to structural differences. These mismatches can exacerbate fiscal imbalances and hinder ...
