Partners of this report are the United Nations 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 report 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.
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. Co-ordination was led by Luis Cecchi and Olivia Cuq, Policy Analysts at the Latin America and the Caribbean Unit of the OECD Development Centre, under the guidance of Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director of the OECD Development Centre and Federico Bonaglia, Deputy 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 Nunzia Saporito, research assistant at the Innovation and New Technologies Unit, under the guidance of José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC and Mario Cimoli, former Acting Executive Secretary of ECLAC. The contribution from CAF was led by Adriana Arreaza, Director of Macroeconomic Studies. The European Commission contribution was led by Diana Montero Melis, Deputy Head of Unit at the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development of the European Commission (INTPA) and Sergio Martin Moreno, ex Programme Manager in the Latin America and the Caribbean Directorate, 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: Aimee Aguilar Jaber (OECD), Adriana Arreaza (CAF), Paul Baldwin (OECD), Pablo Brassiolo (CAF), Cristina Cabutto (OECD), Adriana Caicedo (OECD), Luis Cecchi (OECD), Simone Cecchini (ECLAC), Olivia Cuq (OECD), Rita Da Costa (OECD), Ricardo Estrada (CAF), Lianne Guerra (OECD), Laura Gutiérrez Cadena (OECD), Oswaldo López (CAF), Thomas Manfredi (OECD), Mariana Mirabile (OECD), Nathalia Montoya González (OECD), Sergio Martin Moreno (European Commission), Sebastián Nieto Parra (OECD), René Orozco (OECD), Juan Ortegón Ocampo (OECD), Juana Angela Ospina (Shantalla), Juliana Juana María Otalvaro Mendez (OECD), Camila Ramirez (OECD), Mariana Rodríguez Pico (OECD), Sebastián Rovira (ECLAC), Vicente Ruiz (OECD), Nunzia Saporito (ECLAC), David Schmid (OECD), Daniel Titelman (ECLAC), Juan Vázquez Zamora (OECD) and Juan Nicolás Velandia (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 during the production process, providing views, inputs or boxes, comments and strategic orientation to the report. We would like to highlight the support of Sergio Ampudiana Giorgana (OECD), Geraldine Ang (OECD), Karine Badr (OECD), Froukje Boele (OECD), Antoine Bonnet (OECD), Peter Borkey (OECD), Felipe Bosch (European Commission), Enrico Botta (OECD), Pablo Brassiolo (CAF), Álvaro Calderón (ECLAC), Amy Cano Prentice (OECD), Emma Cantera (OECD), Gabriela Casanova Rangel (Universidad del Rosario), Anthony Caubin (AFD), Mathilde Closset (ECLAC), Angie Contreras Sanabria (DNP), Ignacio Corlazzoli (CAF), Filipe Da Silva (ECLAC), Lylah Davies (OECD), Nawal Djaffar (OECD), John Dulac (OECD), Jane Ellis (OECD), Manuel Escudero (OECD), Ricardo Estrada (CAF), Chiara Falduto (OECD), Jimmy Ferrer (ECLAC), Jason Gagnon (OECD), Camilo Gamba Gamba (OECD), Catherine Gamper (OECD), Marina Gil Sevilla (ECLAC), Nathalie Girouard (OECD), Daniel Gómez Gaviria (DNP), Nicolas Gottman (European Commission), Tomas Hos (OECD), Sofía Hurtado del Orbe (OECD), Joerg Husar (IEA), Raphaël Jachnik (OECD), Richard Valery Jaimes Bonilla (Universidad Javeriana), Katia Karousakis (OECD), Maike Kirsch (OECD), Eija Kiiskinen (OECD), Kumi Kitamori (OECD), Izumi Kotani (OECD), Helen Laubenstein (OECD), Bruno Leclerc (AFD), Xavier Leflaive (OECD), Lahra Liberti (OECD), Carina Lindberg (OECD), Marc Litvine (European Commission), Oswaldo López (CAF), Will Macpherson (OECD), Carlos Fernando Maldonado Valera (ECLAC), Natali Maldonado Valera (Universidad del Rosario), Vasiliki Mavroeidi (OECD), Mauricio Mejia Galvan (OECD), Natalia Moreno Rigollot (Telefónica), Jolien Noels (OECD), Georgina Nuñez (ECLAC), Walid Oueslati (OECD), Lorenzo Pavone (OECD), Carolina Pardo (Universidad del Rosario), Anna Piccini (OECD), Alexander Pick (OECD), Rodrigo Pizarro (OECD), Rayen Quiroga (ECLAC), Rafael Camilo Ramirez Correa (DNP), Ji-Yeun Rim (OECD), Laure Rogès (European Commission), Marta Salafranca (Telefónica), Carlos Santiso (OECD), Juan Manuel Santomé Calleja (Eurosocial), Elliot Smith (OECD), Ernesto Soria Morales (OECD), Katarina Svatikova (OECD), Cecilia Tam (OECD), Jonas Teusch (OECD), Elia Trippel (OECD), Daniela Trucco (ECLAC), Melanie Vilarasau Slade (OECD), Sebastian Weber (OECD), Ulrich Weins (European Commission), Dimitra Xynou (OECD), Robert Youngman (OECD), Yumika Yamada (OECD), Germán Zarama (OECD) and Felix Zimmermann (OECD).
The content of the report was enriched by constructive feedback received during the informal consultation with the LAC countries and members of the OECD Development Centre Governing Board, on 14 February 2022; the virtual Experts Meetings on 28 and 29 April 2022; and the hybrid Experts Dialogue that took place on 03 August 2022. 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: Manuel Albaladejo (UNIDO), Verónica Amarante (University of the Republic, Uruguay), Jorge Arbache (CAF), Alberto Arenas de Mesa (ECLAC), Adriana Arreaza (CAF), José Miguel Benavente (CORFO), Carl Bernadac (AFD), Janos Bertok (OECD), Aida Caldera (OECD), Germán Jorge Carmona Paredes (UNAM), Mario Castillo (ECLAC), Monica Castillo (ILO), Eduardo Cerdá (Ministry of Agriculture livestock and fisheries, Argentina), Amaury Chazeau-Guibert (European Comission), Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERITT), Diego Coatz (UIA), Ruben Contreras (ECLAC), Sergi Corbalan (FTAO), Andrea Costafreda (OXFAM), Slim Dali (AFD), Carlos de Miguel (ECLAC), Deborah Delgado Pugley (Catholic University of Peru), Andres Espejo (ECLAC), Joao Carlos Ferraz (Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil), Jimy Ferrer (ECLAC), Juan Flores (University of Geneva), Andrés García (EVCO, Colombia), Ricardo Gorini (IRENA), Stephany Griffith-Jones (Central Bank of Chile), Marcela Jaramillo (2050 Pathways Platform), Ernesto Jeger (EU-LAC), Eija Kiiskinen (OECD), Annette Killmer (IDB), Rodolfo Lacy (OECD), Maria Fernanda Lemos (IPCC), Santiago Lorenzo (ECLAC), Julio Maturana (Ministry of Energy, Chile), Roxana Maurizio (ILO), Catalina Misleh (Reborn Electric Motors), El Iza Mohamedou (OECD), Irene Monasterolo (EDHEC Business School), Carola Moreno Valenzuela (Ministry of Finance, Chile), Pablo Núñez (Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation, Argentina), José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University), Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal (Queen Mary University of London), Jocelyn Olivari (CORFO), Laura Oroz (AECID), María Paz de la Cruz (Chilean hydrogen association), Javier Perez (Banco de España), Horst Pilger (European Commission), Paula Poblete (Ministry of Social Development and Family, Chile), Andrew Powell (IDB), Martin Rivero (SEGIB), Juan Ruiz (BBVA), José Luis Samaniego (ECLAC), José Antonio Sanahuja (Fundación Carolina), Ewout Sandker (EU Delegation, Chile), André Sapir (ULB), Julián Suárez (CAF), Daniel Titelman (ECLAC), Ricardo Torres (State of Querétaro, Mexico), Maria Elena Valenzuela (ECLAC), Ulrich Volz (University of London), Francesco Vona (University of Milan) and Luis Alberto Zuleta (ECLAC). A group of colleagues from the OECD provided insightful inputs, comments and discussions that significantly improved the report: Shardul Agrawala, José Antonio Ardavín, Jens Arnold, Sofia Blamey Andrusco, Frederic Boehm, Monica Brezzi, Jorge Carbonell, Emanuele Ciani, Joseph Cordonnier, Charlotte Dubald, Mayumi Endoh, Manuela Fitzpatrick, Michael Förster, Mills Gary, Fabio Gehrke, Santiago González, Felipe González Zapata, Håvard Halland, Jean-Jacques Hible, Elizabeth Holbourne, Michael Jelenic, Fatos Koc, Alexandre Kolev, Kamil Kouhen, Juan de Laiglesia, Iris Mantovani, Claire Mc Evoy, Alejandra Meneses, Martin Neil, Ana Novik, Masayuki Omote, Néstor Pelechà Aigües, Nicolás Penagos, Jan Rielaender, Jacob Arturo Rivera Pérez, Camila Saffirio, Katherine Scrivens, Kimiaki Shinozaki, Ana Stringhini, Enes Sunel, 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, the Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP) of Colombia, the European Union, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 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 Unit of the OECD Development Centre, in particular, Aida Buendía, 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 and proofreading activities undertaken by Jessica Hutchings and Marilyn Smith, and the translation and Spanish editing services provided by Alejandro Barranco, Julia Gregory, Alexander Summerfield and Liliana Tafur.