Partners of this report are the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), the European Union (EU) and the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This flagship publication is supported under Pillar 1 of the European Union Regional Facility for Development in Transition for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a European Union-led initiative, jointly implemented with the OECD and its Development Centre and the ECLAC. Furthermore, it is a core activity of the OECD LAC Regional Programme.
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 Luis Cecchi, Policy Analyst at the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit of the OECD Development Centre, under the guidance of Ragnheidur Arnadottir, Director of the OECD Development Centre, Federico Bonaglia, Deputy Director of the OECD Development Centre and Mario Pezzini, former Director of the OECD Development Centre. The 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 was led by Adriana Arreaza, Director of Macroeconomic Studies. The European Commission (EC) contribution was led by Sergio Martin Moreno, Programme Manager in the Latin America and the Caribbean Directorate at the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development of the European Commission (INTPA), and Pelayo Roces Fernandez, former LAC Programme Manager at INTPA, under the guidance of Jorge de la Caballería, their Head of Unit.
The report benefited from the research, drafting and fruitful collaboration among various authors across these organisations, including: Adriana Arreaza (CAF), Andrés Boeninger (ECLAC), Nathalie Basto-Aguirre (OECD), Adriana Caicedo (OECD), Cristina Cabutto (OECD), Luis Cecchi (OECD), Simone Cecchini (ECLAC), Mathilde Closset (ECLAC), Rita Da Costa (OECD), Laura Gutiérrez Cadena (OECD), Martina Lejtreger (OECD), Thomas Manfredi (OECD), Sergio Martin Moreno (EC), Alejandra Martinez (OECD), Nathalia Montoya González (OECD), Sofia Mora Restrepo (OECD), Sebastián Nieto Parra (OECD), René Orozco (OECD), Juan Ortegón Ocampo (OECD), Sara Piñero Mosquera (OECD), Sebastián Rovira (ECLAC), Nunzia Saporito (ECLAC), Daniel Titelman (ECLAC), Juan Vázquez Zamora (OECD) and Juan Nicolas Velandia (OECD). Agustina Vierheller (OECD), Julia Peppino (OECD), Olivia Cuq (OECD), and Isabel Sirven-Villaros (OECD) provided invaluable administrative support throughout the elaboration of the report.
A group of experts and colleagues have been particularly active and supportive during the production process, providing views, inputs or boxes, comments and strategic orientation to the report. We would like to highlight the support of Felipe Bosch (Le Grand Continent), Gabriela Casanova Rangel (Universidad del Rosario), Anthony Caubin (AFD), Angie Contreras Sanabria (DNP), Jason Gagnon (OECD), Juan Miguel Gallego (Universidad del Rosario), Daniel Gómez Gaviria (DNP), Lianne Guerra (Le Grand Continent), Bruno Leclerc (AFD), Marc Litvine (EC), Natali Maldonado Pineda (Universidad del Rosario), Natalia Moreno Rigollot (Telefónica), Lorenzo Pavone (OECD), Alexander Pick (OECD), Rafael Camilo Ramirez Correa (DNP), Laure Rogès (EC), Marta Salafranca (Telefónica), Juan Manuel Santomé Calleja (Eurosocial), Melanie Vilarasau Slade (OECD) and Felix Zimmermann (OECD).
The content of the report was enriched by constructive feedback received during the LEO 2021 online Brainstorming Session that took place on 28 January 2021; the informal consultation with the LAC countries and members of the OECD Development Centre Governing Board, on 5 February 2021; the virtual Experts Meetings on 29 and 30 March 2021, and the LEO 2021 virtual pre-launch event that took place on 15 July 2021 in the framework of the United Nations High-level Political Forum and as part of the “Development in Transition Dialogues to chart new paths for Latin America and the Caribbean”. 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’ meetings and the pre-launch event: Gloria Alonso (Colombia), Fernando Álvarez (CAF), Alberto Arenas De Mesa (ECLAC), Eric Beaume (EC), Mariano Berro (Uruguayan Agency for International Cooperation [AUCI]), Eduardo Bitrán (Chile), Romina Boarini (OECD), Adrián Bonilla (EU-LAC Foundation), Francisco Bustillo (Uruguay), Rodrigo A. Carazo (Costa Rica), Claire Charbit (OECD), Everly Paul Chet Greene (Antigua and Barbuda), Andrea Costafreda (OXFAM), Guillermo Cruces (CEDLAS), Silvia Da Rin Pagnetto (OECD), Luiz de Mello (OECD), Martha Delgado Peralta (Mexico), Koen Doens (EC), Karina Dzialowska (EC), Mayumi Endoh (OECD), Manuel Escudero (OECD/Spain), João Carlos Ferraz (Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Juan Flores (University of Geneva), Andrés García (Universidad del Rosario), Claudia Glintersdorfer (EEAS), Ana Güezmes (ECLAC), Sebastián Herreros (ECLAC), Galina Karamalakova (European External Action Service [EEAS]), Guillermo Larraín (University of Chile), Carlos Malamud (Elcano Royal Institute, Spain), Francisco Monge (Costa Rica), Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid (Universidad Nacional Autónoma, México), Ana Patricia Muñóz (Grupo FARO), Hugo Ñopo (GRADE Peru), José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University), Juan Daniel Oviedo (DANE), Luciana Peres (Brazil), Wilson Peres (ECLAC), Ramón Pineda (ECLAC), Monika Queisser (OECD), Darío Rodriguez (Sorbonne University), Juan Ruiz (BBVA), José Antonio Sanahuja (Fundación Carolina, Spain) and Rubén Silié (Dominican Republic).
A group of colleagues from the OECD provided insightful inputs, comments and discussions that significantly improved the report: Aimee Aguilar Jaber, Jose Antonio Ardavín, Jens Arnold, Janos Bertok, Sofia Blamey Andrusco, Frederic Boehm, Monica Brezzi, Emanuele Ciani, Juan de Laiglesia, Charlotte Dubald, Mayumi Endoh, Manuela Fitzpatrick, Michael Förster, Mills Gary, Fabio Gehrke, Santiago Gonzalez, Felipe Gonzalez Zapata, Havard Halland, Jean-Jacques Hible, Michael Jelenic, Fatos Koc, Alexandre Kolev, Kamil Kouhen, Iris Mantovani, Claire Mc Evoy, Mauricio Mejia Galvan, Iris Mantovani, Alejandra Meneses, Martin Neil, Ana Novic, Masayuki Omote, Nestor Pelecha Aigues, Nicolas Penagos, Jan Rielaender, Jacob Arturo Rivera Perez, Camila Saffirio, Katherine Scrivens, Kimiaki Shinozaki, Ana Stringhini, Enes Sunel, Juan Yermo, Gabriela Villa Aguayo and Martin Wermelinger.
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.
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, European Union and Cooperation, 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, Aida Buendia, Mélodie Descours, Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash, Irit Perry, Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte and Anne Thomas, 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 Hutchings and Jane Marshall, and the translation and Spanish editing services provided by Alejandro Barranco, Julia Gregory, Alexander Summerfield and Liliana Tafur.