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Economy

More productivity with less employment? The labor challenge facing Latin America

While in developed countries productivity drives high-quality employment, in Latin America technological progress is increasing efficiency at the cost of greater informality and less formal employment.

Reducing violence: Latin America’s pending economic policy

Violence operates as a “hidden tax” that costs Latin America 3.5% of its GDP and chokes investment, productivity, and development, making security the region’s major outstanding economic policy.

The regional labor market: Growth without formalization, recession with precarization

When a recession arrives, its effects are usually deeper and more prolonged than those seen during periods in developed economies.

A new lost decade for Latin America?

ECLAC warns of low growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Without mobilizing resources, the region risks another lost decade.

Latin America: dangerous indifference to the multilateral crisis

The collapse of economic multilateralism leaves Latin America vulnerable. Without action, U.S. unilateralism risks deepening regional fragility.

Latin America caught in the commodities trap

Latin America depends on raw materials while losing talent abroad. Education, innovation, and R&D investment are key to breaking the resource curse.