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The economic review examines the economic and financial outlook for the Latin America and the Caribbean region.
Harnessing the AI Transition.
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The rapid global diffusion of AI offers a potential catalyst. However, a critical distinction must be drawn: Digital access does not guarantee productive use, and algorithms do not automatically generate aggregate productivity. If AI is to propel the region’s growth trajectory rather than amplify its historical inequalities, the region must overcome severe structural barriers.
Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Update
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Revisiting Industrial Policy: Strategic Options for Today
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Latin America and the Caribbean enter 2026 with growth still constrained by long-standing structural challenges. Regional GDP growth is projected to reach 2.1 percent this year, below the 2.4% recorded in 2025.
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Transformational Entrepreneurship for Jobs and Growth
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Latin America and the Caribbean continues its efforts to reignite growth and create more and better jobs, but progress remains constrained. The regional growth rate is expected to edge up slightly—from 2.2 percent in 2024 to 2.3 percent in 2025. In this scenario, empowering entrepreneurs and the private sector is essential. They can help fuel needed rapid growth and job creation as central actors in economic progress.
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These review the economic and financial outlook of the Latin America and the Caribbean region. They also cover the short-term prospects and provide a deep analysis of the internal and external factors affecting the region's economic and financial performance.
Rationalizing Informality
Labor informality is far from being a homogeneous block of people. This new publication invites readers to look beyond conventional solutions, promoting a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of the current realities of labor markets in national economies.
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Reclaiming the Lost Century of Growth
Lost Century of Growth
Latin America and the Caribbean has lost not decades but a century of growth due to its inability to learn—to identify, adapt, and implement the new technologies emerging since the Second Industrial Revolution.
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The Evolving Geography of Productivity and Employment
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Using new data and methods, this report shows that deindustrialization, distance, and divisions offer intertwined explanations for the urban productivity paradox in the region
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These are one of our main lines of policy-oriented research. They focus on topics that are central to economic and social development policies in the region. Typically, they are relevant to different sectors and countries.
Research teams for these studies generally involve experts from outside the Office of the Chief Economist, including top internationally renowned researchers from universities and think tanks in the region.
Rethinking Taxation for Growth
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This report argues for a shift beyond the traditional focus on collection efficiency and equity to explicitly include economic growth as a primary objective.
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From Resource Rich to Resource Smart
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The report identifies specific areas of opportunity and concrete actions that countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region can take to reap the upside of the energy transition.
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Competition and Productivity Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
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This report presents new empirical research that shows how competition policy in the region has effectively boosted productivity growth and improved market outcomes.
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The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 28 developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The MPO consists of individual country notes that provide an overview of recent developments, forecasts of major macroeconomic variables and poverty, and a discussion of critical challenges for economic growth, macroeconomic stability, and poverty reduction moving forward.
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