SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC—The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will launch the first edition of its report, Overview of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, next month.
It said the report, which presents a new vision of these policies for the region, details the various efforts that Latin American and Caribbean countries have been making, and proposes a series of guidelines and recommendations for scaling up and improving these policies to achieve more productive, inclusive and sustainable development.
ECLAC said the new publication, which seeks to become a point of reference for policymakers and specialists in productive development, will be presented by its executive secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and the Director of the Commission’s Production, Productivity, and Management Division, Marco Llinás on September 5.
It said the virtual launch will be followed by three discussion panels, which will include specialists from the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, and Harvard and Oxford universities, among other institutions.
In the publication, ECLAC addresses topics such as the role of productivity in the low-growth trap in which Latin America and the Caribbean are caught, the new vision of productive development policies for the region, and the characterization and quantification of the productive development policy instruments of national governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The publication also addresses institutions and governance of productive development policies in the region and productive development policies at a subnational level.
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