Documents et rapports

Informe Económico América Latina y el Caribe, Octubre 2023 : Conectados: Tecnologías Digitales para la Inclusión y el Crecimiento (espagnol)

América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) continúa gestionando competentemente los desafíos impuestos por la débil demanda global, el mayor nivel de endeudamiento, la incertidumbre en torno a la guerra en Ucrania...

Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review, October 2023 - Wired: Digital Connectivity for Inclusion and Growth (anglais)

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continues to competently manage challenges of weak global demand, higher debt, uncertainty surrounding the war in Ukraine, and the ongoing although diminishing inflationary...

The Cost of Staying Healthy (anglais)

Latin America and the Caribbean was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, which arrived on the back of years of disappointing economic growth and limited social progress, and after a wave of social unrest...

The Cost of Staying Healthy (espagnol)

Latin America and the Caribbean was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, which arrived on the back of years of disappointing economic growth and limited social progress, and after a wave of social unrest...

The Cost of Staying Healthy (portugais)

Latin America and the Caribbean was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, which arrived on the back of years of disappointing economic growth and limited social progress, and after a wave of social unrest...

Import substitution with labor misallocation (anglais)

This paper argues that relying on major policy distortions to create a domestic automotive industry through import substitution generates significant costs for the economy, in terms of foregone output...

Jobs and growth : Brazil’s productivity agenda (portugais)

Brazil enters the election year 2018 with an economy that is gradually recovering from the deepest recession in its recent economic history. This book is motivated by the need to understand the possible...

Jobs and growth : Brazil’s productivity agenda (anglais)

Brazil enters the election year 2018 with an economy that is gradually recovering from the deepest recession in its recent economic history. This book is motivated by the need to understand the possible...

Mobilizing private finance for development in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

After a two-year recession, something last experienced over three decades ago, the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is growing again. The challenge now is to accelerate and sustain growth to...

Productivity growth in Latin American and the Caribbean : exploring the macro-micro linkages (anglais)

This paper brings together the main findings and policy implications of two recent World Bank regional reports on economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Araujo, Vostroknutova, Wacker and Clavijo...

Beyond commodities : the growth challenge of Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

The Growth Challenge of Latin America andthe Caribbean shows that Latin America and the Caribbean's growthperformance over the past decade cannot be reduced to the commodityboom: growth-promoting reforms...

Understanding the income and efficiency gap in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

The countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region like other emerging economies, have benefited from a decade of remarkable growth and some income per capita convergence toward the United...

Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean’s income gap (anglais)

Even nearly ten years of solid growth cannot guarantee long-term income convergence. The countries of the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC), like other emerging economies, have benefited from a...

Beyond commodities : the growth challenge of Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has seen a decade of remarkable growth and income convergence. Growth has been a key driver for reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. It has been...

Brazil - Acre: Strengthening Public Policies DPL : P147913 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02 (anglais)

Growth Volatility in Paraguay : Sources, effects, and options (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)

Another attempt to reform Brazil's intergovernmental financing arrangements : preliminary results and future prospects (anglais)

Since the mid-1990s, Brazil has struggled, with limited success, to reform its intergovernmental financing arrangements. Every four years, the electoral cycle brings promises of much needed reforms. Recently...

Brazil - Acre: Strengthening Public Policies DPL : P147913 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (anglais)

Growth Volatility in Paraguay : Sources, effects, and options (Vol. 2 of 2) : Supplementary volume with selected background papers (anglais)

A public expenditure review for Paraguay (Vol. 1 of 2) : the quest for optimal tax and expenditure policies for shared prosperity (anglais)

Paraguay has achieved significant progress in terms of fiscal policy over the past decade. Despite this progress on fiscal reform, three major challenges remain: 1) a volatile macroeconomic environment;...