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 contribution of the OECD Development Centre to this report was led and managed by Sebastián Nieto-Parra, Head of the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit at the OECD Development Centre, with the support and co-ordination of René Orozco, Economist 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. ECLAC’s contribution was led by Sebastián Rovira, Economic Affairs Officer at the Innovation and new technologies Unit, with the support of Andrés Boeninger and Nunzia Saporito, research assistants at the Innovation and new technologies Unit, 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 European Commission (EC) contribution was led by Pelayo Roces Fernandez, Programme manager in the Latin America and the Caribbean Directorate at the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development of the European Commission, under the guidance of Jorge de la Caballería, his Head of Unit.
The report benefited from the research, drafting and fruitful collaboration between various authors across these organisations, including: Adriana Arreaza (CAF), Andrés Boeninger (ECLAC), Nathalie Basto-Aguirre (OECD), Adriana Caicedo (OECD), Cristina Cabutto (OECD), Johan Cañas (CAF), Luis Cecchi (OECD), Simone Cecchini (ECLAC), Paula Cerutti (OECD), Mathilde Closset (ECLAC), Rita Da Costa (OECD), Marin Fouéré (OECD), Valeria Jordan (ECLAC), Zebulun Kreiter (ECLAC), Nathalia Montoya (OECD), Sara Piñero Mosquera (OECD), Georgina Nuñez (ECLAC), René Orozco (OECD), Alejandro Patiño (ECLAC), Esteban Pérez Caldentey (ECLAC), Laura Poveda (ECLAC), Diane Quarless (ECLAC), Pelayo Roces Fernandez (EC), Fernando Rojas (ECLAC), Sebastián Rovira (ECLAC), Nunzia Saporito (ECLAC), Daniel Titelman (ECLAC), Juan Nicolas Velandia (OECD) and Juan Vázquez Zamora (OECD). Agustina Vierheller (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 or boxes, comments and strategic orientation to the report. We would like to highlight the support of Mauricio Agudelo (CAF), Eric Beaume (EC), Elisabet Carlsson (EC), Anthony Caubin (AFD), Andrea Costafreda (OXFAM), Teodora Deaconu (European External Action Service – EEAS -), Lars-Erik Forsberg (EC), Juan Miguel Gallego (Universidad del Rosario), Daniel Gómez Gaviria (DNP Colombia), Nicolas Grosman (McKinsey Global Institute), Laura Klein (EC), Bruno Leclerc (AFD), Andrea Leone (EC), Marc Litvine (EC), Georgiana Macovei (EC), Lorenzo Pavone (OECD), Santiago Matallana (Consejo Privado de Competitividad), Roberto de Michele (IDB), Carlos Oliveira (EC), Santiago Pinzón (ANDI), Cristina Pombo (IDB), Martín Rivero (SEGIB), Laure Rogès (EC), Carlos Santiso (CAF), Carlos Eduardo Sepúlveda (Universidad del Rosario), Carolina Valencia (C4IR), Melanie Vilarasau Slade (OECD), Jacob Tamm (EEAS), Cristina Xalma (SEGIB), Yumika Yamada (OECD), Felice Zaccheo (EC) and Felix Zimmermann (OECD).
The content of the report was enriched by constructive feedback received during the LEO 2020 Consultation Meeting that took place in Paris on 17 June 2019 and the Experts Meetings that took place on 31 October 2019 in Paris. In addition to the 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: Javier Barreiro (AGESIC, Uruguay), David Bradbury (OECD), Elisabet Carlsson (EC), Pau Castells (GSMA Intelligence), Lucio Castro, (former IDB), Eduardo Chomali (CAF), Chiara Criscuolo (OECD), Ariel Emirian (Société Générale), David Fraustchy (Telefónica), Lucas Gallitto (GSMA), Lucas Sebastián Gómez, (former DNP, Colombia), Hector Huici, (Argentina), Juan Jung (ASIET), Raul Katz (Telecom Advisory Services LLC), Gonzalo López Barajas (Telefónica), Reyson Lizardo, (Dominican Republic), Andrés Mariño (Universidad del Rosario), Enrique Maruri (OXFAM), María Isabel Mejía (CAF), Angel Melguizo (AT&T), Luiz de Mello (OECD), Natalia Moreno Rigollot (Telefónica), Hugo Ñopo (GRADE Peru), Eduardo Salido (Telefónica), Claudio Salinas (EU), Carlos Santiso (CAF), Andreas Schleicher (OECD), Berioska Torres (MINTEL, Ecuador), and João Vasconcelos (OECD).
A group of colleagues from the OECD provided insightful comments and discussions that significantly improved the report: José Antonio Ardavin, Jens Arnold, Francesco Avvisati, Séverine Baranger, Laurent Bernat, Sofia Blamey, Lauren Bourke, David Bradbury, Chiara Criscuolo, Silvia Da Rin Pagnetto, John Drummond, Janos Ferencz, Manuela Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Fordham, Laura Galindo, Paula Garda, Felipe González-Zapata, Robert Grundke, Miyako Ikeda, Daniel Ker, Francois Keslair, Molly Lesher, Javier López González, Hiroko Matsui, Andrea Minea-Pic, Marco Paccagnella, Kostas Panagiotopoulos, Grace Perez-Navarro, Karine Perset, Dirk Pilat, Glenda Quintini, Jacob Arturo Rivera Pérez, Elettra Ronchi, Francesca Spinelli, Enes Sunel, Barbara Ubaldi and Benjamin Welby.
The country notes benefited from constructive inputs, scrutiny and verification by delegations to the OECD from Chile, Colombia and Mexico, as well as the embassies in France of Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
The OECD Development Centre would also like to express its sincere gratitude to the Agence Française de Développement, Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP) of Colombia, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Telefónica and Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) for their support to the Latin American Economic Outlook.
Finally, many thanks go to the Publications and Communications Division of the OECD Development Centre, in particular Marika Boiron, Aida Buendia, Mélodie Descours, Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash, Irit Perry and Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, for their steadfast patience and expedient work on the production of this report and associated materials. The authors also sincerely appreciate the editing activities undertaken by Elizabeth Holbourne, from the OECD Development Centre, Jessica Hutching and Jane Marshall; and the translation and Spanish editing services provided by Alejandro Barranco, Julia Gregory, Alexander Summerfield, Liliana Tafur and Esther Waldmeier.