The economic review examines the economic and financial outlook for the Latin America and the Caribbean region.
Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean
Economic reviews
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REPORT Oct 07, 2025
Transformational Entrepreneurship for Jobs and Growth
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 ...
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REPORT Oct 09, 2024
Taxing Wealth for Equity and Growth
Continued inequality, high taxes on productive investment that limit growth, and continued lack of fiscal space have raised taxing wealth as a possible means of addressing all three issues.
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REPORT Apr 10, 2024
Competition: The Missing Ingredient for Growth?
Latin America and the Caribbean has made slow but consistent progress addressing the imbalances induced by the pandemic. However, challenges remain. Growth may be enhanced by inducing more competition in the region.
Annual Flagship Reports
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.
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REPORT Jun 06, 2025
Reclaiming the 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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REPORT Feb 26, 2024
The Evolving Geography of Productivity and Employment
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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REPORT Jun 07, 2021
Employment in Crisis
A region known for its volatility, the region has suffered severe economic and social setbacks from crises, that have taken their toll on careers, wage growth, and productivity.
Regional Studies
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.
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REPORT Oct 04, 2025
Rethinking Taxation for Growth
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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REPORT Aug 01, 2025
From Resource Rich to Resource Smart
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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REPORT Mar 30, 2025
Competition and Productivity Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
This report presents new empirical research that shows how competition policy in the region has effectively boosted productivity growth and improved market outcomes.
