Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review, April 2024
Title | Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review, April 2024 PDF eBook |
Author | William Maloney |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2024-04-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1464821119 |
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has made slow but consistent progress addressing the imbalances induced by the pandemic in an international environment that is just now showing signs of stabilizing. Despite favorable macroeconomic management, high interest rates and fiscal imbalances remain challenging while growth rates remain lackluster due to long-standing structural issues. Looking forward, an aging workforce and rising violence will increasingly complicate policy. This report focuses particularly on weak competitive forces as a source of low productivity, low growth, and low welfare in LAC. It emphasizes the need for effective competition institutions, pro-competition regulatory frameworks, complementary policies to improve the capabilities of workers and firms, and enhanced innovation systems, to prepare local industries to reach the technological frontier and face global competition. Furthermore, the report underscores the need for reforms to prevent large businesses from exerting undue political influence over policy decisions.
Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean
Title | Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
Publisher | UN |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2015-01-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9789211218626 |
The Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014 looks at how economic growth in the region has been slowing since 2011, and the data available for the first six months of 2014 indicate that the region will not match the growth rate of 2.5% recorded in 2013. Growth has been muted over the first few months of the year, owing to stagnant gross fixed capital formation and faltering private consumption. Government consumption, on the other hand, has picked up, and the net contribution of exports has been more positive than during the same period of the previous year. A regional growth rate of 2.2% is forecast for 2014.
Latin American Economic Outlook 2021 Working Together for a Better Recovery
Title | Latin American Economic Outlook 2021 Working Together for a Better Recovery PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2021-12-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264682317 |
The Latin American Economic Outlook 2021: Working Together for a Better Recovery aims to analyse and provide policy recommendations for a strong, inclusive and environmentally sustainable recovery in the region. The report explores policy actions to improve social protection mechanisms and increase social inclusion, foster regional integration and strengthen industrial strategies, and rethink the social contract to restore trust and empower citizens at all stages of the policy‐making process.
The Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean
Title | The Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Organization of American States. Executive Secretariat for Economic and Social Affairs |
Publisher | General Secretariat Organization of American States |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean
Title | Economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook |
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Release | 1986 |
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Latin America and the Caribbean
Title | Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook |
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Pages | 210 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Caribbean Area |
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Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
Title | Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Loayza |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0821360914 |
Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering severe economic downturns and the success of market-oriented reforms is being called into question. This report seeks to contribute to the debate by examining the nature of economic growth in the region. The aim is threefold: to describe the basic characteristics of growth; explain differences across countries and to forecast changes over the next decade.