Partners of this report are the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), the European Commission (EC) 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 contribution of the OECD Development Centre to this report was led and managed by Sebastián Nieto‑Parra, Head of the Centre’s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Unit. Co‑ordination was led by Olivia Cuq and René Orozco, Policy Analyst and Economist respectively at the same Unit, under the guidance of Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director of the OECD Development Centre, and Federico Bonaglia, Deputy Director of the OECD Development Centre. ECLAC’s contribution was led by Marco Llinás, Director of the Production, Productivity and Management Division, Daniel Titelman, Director of the Economic Development Division and Sebastián Rovira, Economic Affairs Officer in Charge of the Innovation and New Technologies Unit, under the guidance of José Manuel Salazar‑Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC. The contribution from CAF was led by Veronica Frisancho Robles, Chief Economist, Ignacio Corlazzoli, Responsible for Resource Mobilisation and Global Partnerships Management, and Reinier Schliesser, Senior Economist - Acting Director, Unit of Macroeconomic Studies, under the guidance of Sergio Díaz‑Granados, Executive President of CAF. The European Commission contribution was led by Diana Montero Melis, Deputy Head of Unit at the Directorate-General for International Partnerships of the European Commission (INTPA) and Marc Vothknecht (INTPA), under the guidance of Olivier Luyckx, former Head of Unit - South America and Regional Operations, Felice Zaccheo, Head of Unit - Regional Programmes for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Felix Fernández-Shaw, Director for Latin America and the Caribbean and Relations with all Overseas Countries and Territories (INTPA).
The report benefited from the research, drafting and fruitful collaboration among various authors, including María Carolina Arcila (OECD), Els Berghmans (EC), Carl Bernadac (AFD), Marie‑Pierre Bourzai (AFD), Laura Buchet (OECD), Adriana Caicedo (OECD), Regina Casillas Rodríguez (OECD), Luis Cecchi (OECD), Chiara Cirignaco (EC), Olivia Cuq (OECD), Rita Da Costa (OECD), Victoria de la Puente (OECD), Jimena Durán (CAF), Sofia Faurie (OECD), Alessandro Ferrario (EC), Eleonore Fignolet (EC), Sonia García Lorenzana (OECD), Martín Grandes (OECD), Laura Gutiérrez Cadena (OECD), Rodolfo Lazarich (EC), Martina Lejtreger (OECD), Oswaldo López (CAF), Carlos Maldonado (ECLAC), Xavier Mancero (ECLAC), Thomas Manfredi (OECD), Diana Mejía (CAF), Nathalia Montoya González (OECD), Mariana Navarro (OECD), Sebastián Nieto Parra (OECD), Esteban Pérez (ECLAC), René Orozco (OECD), Noel Pérez (ECLAC), Zoe Pigasse (OECD), Ramón Pineda (ECLAC), Claudia Robles (ECLAC), Callum Ryan (OECD), Daniel Titelman (ECLAC), Manuel Toledo (CAF), Francisco Villarreal (ECLAC), María José Zambrano (AFD) and Juan Vázquez Zamora (OECD). Rosario Hernando Cruz (OECD) provided invaluable administrative support throughout the elaboration of the report.
A group of OECD experts and colleagues have been particularly active and supportive during the production process, providing views, inputs and comments. We would like to highlight the support of Michael Abendschein, Jens Arnold, Julia Benn, Marisa Berbegal, Bert Brys, Magdalena Burtscher, Aida Caldera, Pietrangelo De Biase, Gabriel Di Paolantonio, Luisa Dressler, Charlotte Dubald, Abdoulaye Fabregas, Camilo Gamba, Paula Garda, Jason Gagnon, Pilar Garrido, Antonio Gomes, Alberto Gonzalez, Andrea Grifoni, Paul Horrocks, Felix Hugger, Raphaela Hyee, Kentaro Kato, Fatos Koc, Horacio Levy, Mario López Roldán, Alejandra Medina, Chiara Monticone, Pierce O’Reilly, Lorenzo Pavone, Sarah Perret, Cécilia Piemonte, Luca Policino, Monika Queisser, Emma Raiteri, Claudia Ramirez, Yannic Rehm, Katherine Scrivens, Daniela Sena, Micheal Sicsic, Joseph Stead, Yung Tang, and John-David Tochon.
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 21 February 2024; a virtual Experts’ Meeting on 16 and 17 April 2024; and a private‑sector consultation meeting that took place on 11 April 2024. In addition to the LAC delegates to the Governing Board of the OECD Development Centre, we are particularly grateful to the experts, academics, private‑sector representatives and other public servants who joined us during the Experts’ Meeting, the private‑sector consultation meeting and informal meetings: Alberto Arenas (ECLAC), Nour Barnat (UNCTAD), Romy Calderón (ALIDE), Javier Carbajal Galarza (ALIDE), Anderson Caputo (IDB), Andrea Costafreda (Oxfam), Joana Conde (EIB), Eric David (French delegation to the OECD), Francisco Duque (Financial Superintendency, Colombia), Alejandra del Mar Dussán Zuluaga (IDB), Andrés Felipe Espejo Rivera (ECLAC), Ernesto Espíndola (ECLAC), Almudena Fernández (UNDP), Juan Huitzilihuitl Flores Zendejas (University of Geneva), Sebastián García Andrade (Central Bank of Colombia), Chris Garroway (UN), Martin Grandes (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Felipe Andrés Guerra Cuadrado (Financial Superintendency, Colombia), Petra Kynclova (UNCTAD), Eirini Koutra (EIB), Kristin Lang (EIB), José Ignacio López (ANIF), Juan Martínez (IDB), Baptiste Mesa (AFD), María Luisa Montero Marinho (ECLAC), Natalia Moreno Rigollot (Telefónica), Hugo Ñopo (The World Bank), José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University), Anu Peltola (UNCTAD), Javier Pérez (Central Bank of Spain), Fazia Pusterla (IDB), Andrea Repetto (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Nuria Rodríguez Aller (COFIDES), José Antonio Sanahuja (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Isabel Fernández Sarabia (EIB), Ricardo Santos (EIB), Paola Subacchi (Sciences Po), Luciana Trindade de Aguiar (UNDP), Andrea Trujillo (Financial Superintendency, Colombia), Oscar Valencia (IDB), Ana Valero (Telefónica), Marta Vegas (Telefónica), Guido Zack (Fundar) and Nancy Eugenia Zamudio Gómez (Central Bank of Colombia).
The country notes benefited from constructive inputs, 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, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. OECD delegations and embassies also co-ordinated the relevant inputs from different national ministries and governmental areas. The OECD Development Centre also 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, the Swiss Agency for Development and Co‑operation, Telefónica, and Universidad del Rosario for their support of the Latin American Economic Outlook report.
Finally, many thanks go to the Publications and Communications Division of the OECD Development Centre, in particular Aida Buendia, Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash, Henri‑Bernard Solignac‑Lecomte and Felix Zimmermann, for their steadfast patience and expedient work on the production of this report and associated materials. The authors also sincerely appreciate the editing and proofreading activities undertaken by Mary Bortin and Jill Gaston; the co‑ordination of the Spanish translation by Alejandro Barranco, Julia Gregory and Alexander Summerfield; the Spanish editing and proofreading services by Liliana Tafur and the infographics design by Milagros Gastaldi.