OECD - Latin American Economic Outlook 2019

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 Sebastin Nieto-Parra, Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit at the OECD Development Centre, with the support of Paula Cerutti and Ren 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. ECLACs contribution was led by Sebastin 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), Ren 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 Jos 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), Andrs Mario (Universidad del Rosario), Angel Melguizo (Former Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit at the OECD Development Centre), Marco Mira DErcole (OECD), Jose Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University), Pelayo Roces Fernndez (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: Martn Abeles (ECLAC), Lais Abramo (ECLAC), Gloria Alonso (DNP, Colombia), Mnica Aspe (former Chair of the Governing Board of the OECD Development Centre), Juan Carlos Berganza (Banco de Espaa), Luis Brtola (Universidad de la Repblica), Laurence Boone (OECD), Ana Ciuti (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Argentina), Guillermo Cruces (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Mara del Pilar Garrido Gonzalo (Ministry of Planning, Costa Rica), Carlos de Miguel (ECLAC), Antonio de Paula Oliveira (CGEE, Brazil), Martine Durand (OECD), Ariel Emirian (Socit Gnrale), Joao Carlos Ferraz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Luis Foncerrada (Universidad Nacional Autnoma), Martn Francos (Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development, Dominican Republic), Ricardo French-Davis (Universidad de Chile), Guillermo Gonzlez (Ministry of the Environment, Chile), Camila Gramkow (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research), Nicolas Grosman (McKinsey Global Institute), Gonzalo Hernndez Licona (CONEVAL, Mexico), Stephanie Araya Jimnez (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 Concepcin), Alejandro Mentaberry (Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina), Nohelia Milln (INMUJERES [National Institute for Women], Uruguay), Jorge Moreira Da Silva (OECD), Michelle Muschett (Ministry of Social Development, Panama), Enrique OFarrill (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 Velzquez (UN Habitat), Juan Yermo (OECD) and Stella Zervoudaki (Delegation of the EU to Chile).