Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2024 was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director and by the IDB Institutions for Development Sector, under the leadership of Emilio Pineda, Interim Manager. The work was led by Renny Reyes (OECD) and Carlos Pimenta (IDB) under the direction of Monica Brezzi (OECD), Santiago González (OECD) and Emilio Pineda (IDB). The Publication was drafted by Santiago González (OECD), Alexis Kyander (OECD), Alessandro Lupi (OECD), Renny Reyes (OECD) and Roberto Arana (IDB). David Gamboa-Solano (OECD) provided research assistance.
Major drafting contributions were received from Monica Brezzi (OECD), Mariana Prats (OECD), Phil Keefer (IDB) and Carlos Pimenta (IDB) (Chapter 2, Trust in government); Karine Badr (OECD), Misha Kaur (OECD), Gloriana Madrigal (OECD), Jesper Johnsøn (OECD), Santiago Wortman Jofre (OECD), Frederic Boehm (OECD), Mariano Lafuente (IDB) and Edgardo Mosqueira (IDB) (Chapters 3 Governance of the policy cycle); Emma Cantera (OECD), Brett Carson (OECD), David Goessmann (OECD), Mauricio Mejia Galvan (OECD), Benedict Stefani (OECD), Marie Whelan (OECD), Nicolas Dassen (IDB) and Miguel Porrúa (IDB) (Chapter 4 Open Government); Martha Baxter (OECD), Paul Davidson (OECD), Manuel Gerardo Flores Romero (OECD), Antonio Reyes (OECD), Vincent Van Langen (OECD), Alfredo Briseno (IDB), Pedro Farias (IDB), Eliezer Olivares (IDB) and Delia Rodrigo (IDB) (Chapter 5 Regulatory Governance); Andrew Blazey (OECD), Anne Keller (OECD), Scherie Nicol (OECD), Álfrún Tryggvadottir (OECD), Camila Vammalle (OECD), Leslie Harper (IDB) and Carlos Pimenta (IDB) (Chapter 6 Budgeting Practices); Jacobo García Villarreal (OECD), Ana Cristina Calderón (IDB) and Leslie Harper (IDB) (Chapter 7 Managing Public Procurement); Jacobo García Villarreal (OECD), Zoila Llempen (IDB) and Tomas Serebrisky (IDB) (Chapter 8 Infrastructure planning and delivery); Marco Beltrán (OECD), Cecilia Emilsson (OECD), Felipe González-Zapata (OECD), Omer Kirac (OECD), Seong Ju Park (OECD), Arturo Rivera Perez (OECD), Ricardo Zapata (OECD), and Miguel Porrúa (IDB) (Chapter 9 Digital Government and Open Government Data); Daniel Gerson (OECD), Mariano Lafuente (IDB), Sandra Naranjo Bautista (IDB) (Chapter 12 Public Employment and representation); Daniel Gerson (OECD), François Villeneuve (OECD), Mariano Lafuente (IDB) (Chapter 13 Managing Human resources). The Focus Chapter (Chapter 1) received contributions from many of the above on the specific subject matters noted, and also Conor Das-Doyle (OECD), Elise Desplanques (OECD), Camila Saffiro (OECD), Ernesto Soria Morales (OECD) and Yola Thuerer (OECD). The publication was edited by Sally Hinchcliffe in English and benefitted from editorial assistance from Andrea Uhrhammer (OECD). It was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik (OECD). Translation in Spanish was made possible thanks to Roberto Arana (IDB) and David Gamboa Solano (OECD), and was edited in Spanish by Sarah Schineller and Julia Gomila.
This publication is the result of contributions from a wide range of sources and expertise. This work greatly benefitted from inputs provided by the Inter American Network on Government Procurement, the OECD-LAC Network on Good Regulatory Practices, the Public Investment Network LAC, 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, the authors thanks the IDB country representatives and country staff, who assisted whenever a question arose, and facilitated channels of communication with government authorities.