Government at a Glance Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, under the leadership of Marcos Bonturi, Director and by the IDB Institutions for Development Department, under the leadership of Moises J. Schwartz, Manager. The work was led by Zsuzsanna Lonti (OECD), Carlos Pimenta (IDB) and Santiago González (OECD) under the direction of Monica Brezzi (OECD), Emilio Pineda (IDB) and Lea Giménez (IDB). The Publication was drafted by Barbara Baredes (OECD), Maria Veronica Cetrola (IDB), Santiago González (OECD) and Alessandro Lupi (OECD). Major drafting contributions were received from, Frederic Boehm (OECD), Monica Brezzi (OECD), Adam Ostry (OECD), Barbara Ubaldi (OECD), Edwin Lau (OECD) and Roberto de Michele (IDB) (Chapter 1 Good governance for Latin America representing the interests for all). Mariano Lafuente (IDB) and Edgardo Mosqueira (IDB) (Chapters 3 Public Employment and Chapter 4 Institutions); Andrew Blazey (OECD), Roberto García Lopez (IDB), Delphine Moretti (OECD), Anne Keller (OECD), Ana María Ruiz (OECD) and Lisa Von Trapp (OECD) (Chapter 5 Budget Practices and Procedures); Mariano Lafuente (IDB), Luciano Srazza( IDB), Daniel Gerson (OECD) (Chapter 6 Human resources management); Benjamin Gerloff (OECD), Anna Pietikainen (OECD), Cristiana Vitale (OECD), Alexis Durand (OECD), Renny Reyes (OECD), Pedro Farias (IDB), Delia Rodrigo (IDB), Gustavo Zanabria (IDB), Manuel Gerardo Flores Romero (OECD), Christiane Arndt-Bascle (OECD) and Paul Davidson (OECD) (Chapter 7 Regulatory Policy and Governance); Miguel Porrúa (IDB), Nicolas Dassen (IDB), Arturo Rivera Perez (OECD) (Chapter 8 Open Government Data); Roberto de Michele (IDB), Frederic Boehm (OECD), Mariana Pratts (OECD), Felicitas Neuhaus (OECD) (Chapter 9 Public Sector Integrity); Leslie Harper (IDB); Ana Cristina Calderon (IDB); Minjoo Son (OECD) (Chapter 10 Public Procurement); Carlotta Ballestra (OECD), Elena Tosetto (OECD) (Chapter 11 Core Government Results). We also thank Andrea Uhrhammer (OECD) and Roxana Glavanov (OECD) for editorial support as well as Jennifer Allain for their help in preparing the document for publication. We thank Julio Bacio Terracino (OECD), Sebastian Nieto Parra (OECD Development Center) and José Antonio Ardavin (OECD) for their comments. Translation in Spanish was made possible thanks to Evelyn Cermeno Vargas (IDB). Zoltan Mikolas was in charge of preparing the contextual annex. The cover is an original drawing from Jeffrey Fisher.
This publication is the result of contributions from a wide range of sources and expertise. This work is financed with resources from a technical support by the IDB. It greatly benefitted from inputs provided by the IDB/OAS/CRDI network of e-Government in Latin America and the Caribbean (Red GEALC), The Inter American Network on Government Procurement, the OECD-LAC Network on Good Regulatory Practices and the OECD/IDB Network of Senior Budget Officials for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC SBO). The authors express their gratitude to country officials from Latin America and the Caribbean who replied to the surveys and helped during the data cleaning and validation process. Furthermore, we thank the IDB country representatives and country staff, who assisted whenever a question arose, and facilitated channels of communication with government authorities.