Latin American Economic Outlook 2017 Youth, Skills and Entrepreneurship


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The 2017 edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook explores youth, skills and entrepreneurship. Young Latin Americans embody the region’s promise and perils. They stand at the crossroads of a region whose once promising economy and social progress is now undergoing a slowdown.




Latin American Economic Outlook 2019 Development in Transition


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The Latin American Economic Outlook 2019: Development in Transition (LEO 2019) presents a fresh analytical approach in the region. It assesses four development traps relating to productivity, social vulnerability, institutions and the environment.




Latin American Economic Outlook 2018 Rethinking Institutions for Development


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The Latin American Economic Outlook 2018: Rethinking Institutions for Development focuses on how institutions can underpin the foundations of a long period of sustained and inclusive growth and increased well-being. The report begins with an overview of the main macroeconomic challenges ...




Latin American Economic Outlook 2017


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The 2017 edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook explores youth, skills and entrepreneurship. The Outlook identifies potential strategies and policy responses to help Latin America and the Caribbean revive economic growth.




Latin American Economic Outlook 2017 Youth, Skills and Entrepreneurship (Chinese version)


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本书探讨青年、技能和创业。拉丁美洲青年代表着该地区的希望与危险。他们站在拉美地区的 十字路口,曾经经历经济繁荣和社会进步,如今只能忍受着增长放缓。本书确立的潜在战略和政策 回应,有助于拉丁美洲和加勒比地区重现经济增长。尽管发展的源泉各有不同,但是技能和创业能 够促进青年人从事知识密集型经济活动,激发其生产力,改变该地区的政治,如同他们从学校到生 产性工作的成功转型,创造他们所追求的未来。报告涵盖了该领域的有益经验和最佳实践,提出的 战略可以帮助拉美巩固长期增长,确保社会进程的连续性。




Shaping the Digital Transformation in Latin America Strengthening Productivity, Improving Lives


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This report discusses policies and approaches to spur sustainable and inclusive digital transformation in the LAC region across seven action areas: enhancing access to digital technologies; strengthening their effective use; enabling digital innovation; ensuring quality jobs for all; promoting an inclusive digital society; strengthening trust; and fostering market openness. The report also aims to contribute to the preparation of an action plan that will support the region’s efforts to reap the benefits of the digital transformation. This publication was prepared to support the discussions of the OECD Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Programme’s Third Ministerial Summit on Productivity “Harnessing the Digital Transformation to Boost Productivity in in Latin America and the Caribbean”. It draws on OECD work on carried out in the context of the Going Digital project, as well as a range of work specific to the LAC region, such as the OECD-IDB report Broadband Policies for Latin America and the Caribbean, the OECD Reviews of Telecommunication Policies in Mexico and Colombia, and the OECD Going Digital Reviews of Colombia and Brazil.




The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development


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Thoroughly revised and updated, this foundational text provides the basic economic tools for students to understand the problems facing the countries of Latin America. In the fourth edition, Patrice Franko analyzes challenges to the neoliberal model of development and highlights recent macroeconomic changes in the region. Including charts and tables with the most current data available, the book also offers a wealth of new boxed discussions and vignettes.




Development Centre Studies Start-up Latin America 2016 Building an Innovative Future


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Start-up Latin America 2016 presents an update of start-up promotion policies in the region. Start-ups are becoming a reality in Latin America and public policies are playing an important role in supporting their creation and expansion. This second edition reviews and compares the experiences ...




How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making


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Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-income in terms of conventional metrics. But has this change been mirrored in improvements across the different areas of people’s lives? How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making addresses this question by presenting comparative evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a focus on 11 LAC countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay).




OECD Economic Surveys: Argentina 2017 Multi-dimensional Economic Survey


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Following years of unsustainable economic policies, Argentina has undertaken a bold turnaround in policies, which has helped to stabilise the economy and avoid another crisis.