• This newsletter reports on the activities of the Centre and shares regional experiences and recent developments from the economies in the Latin American and Caribbean region. (oecd.org)
  • Most of these reviews were performed during the meetings of the Latin American Competition Forum which are held every year in a different country in Latin America and the Caribbean. (oecd.org)
  • Published twice a year, it shares regional experiences and recent developments from the economies in the Latin American and Caribbean region. (oecd.org)
  • This third edition of Government at a Glance Latin America and the Caribbean provides the latest available evidence on public administrations and their performance in the LAC region and compares it to OECD countries. (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • 28 October 2011) Despite the global economic downturn, the economy of the Latin American and Caribbean region grew 5.9% in 2010 and is expected to climb by 4.4% this year. (cepal.org)
  • Latin America and the Caribbean governments should build on recent achievements to address both short-term and long-term challenges such as diversifying their economies, carrying out fiscal reform and giving their citizens better public services. (cepal.org)
  • In the short-term, Latin American and Caribbean states must broaden the fiscal space necessary to respond to negative shocks from international markets. (cepal.org)
  • The Latin-American and Caribbean States should also address long-term challenges and structural issues. (cepal.org)
  • Latin American and Caribbean economies have shown a significant resilience to the effects of financial crisis and its recovery has been faster than in other regions", noted Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary at ECLAC. (cepal.org)
  • To narrow this gap, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean should guarantee high-quality primary education and equitable access to secondary and tertiary education. (cepal.org)
  • Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 presents key indicators on health and health systems in 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries. (oecd.org)
  • This first Health at a Glance publication to cover the Latin America and the Caribbean region was prepared jointly by OECD and the World Bank. (oecd.org)
  • Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023 is a joint publication by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC), the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). (oecd.org)
  • It presents detailed, internationally comparable data on tax revenues for 27 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) economies, four of which are OECD members. (oecd.org)
  • Extending the OECD methodology to Latin American and Caribbean countries enables comparisons of tax systems on a consistent basis both across this region and with OECD countries. (oecd.org)
  • This data is released at the same time as the annual OECD Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean. (oecd.org)
  • Latin America and the Caribbean enjoyed a decade of strong growth between 2004 and 2013. (friendsofeurope.org)
  • A ceremony in Panama marked the regional launch in Latin America and the Caribbean of an international coalition to promote pay equality between women and men. (ilo.org)
  • PANAMA CITY (ILO News) - Panama hosted a regional launch of the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) to promote a reduction of the wage gap between women and men in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is currently at 15 per cent. (ilo.org)
  • Speaking at the ceremony, José Manuel Salazar, ILO Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, pointed out that "despite efforts conducted in recent years, there is still a pay gap in the region. (ilo.org)
  • Objective: To apply the Political Economy of Aging approach to the study of the economic (in)security of the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean. (scirp.org)
  • By contrast, Latin American and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North African countries exhibit no convergence to divergence in energy intensity. (scirp.org)
  • This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a forthcoming NBER book. (nber.org)
  • Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin American and the Caribbean," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number heck04-1, 6. (nber.org)
  • This 2019 report aligns with the required annual questionnaire that the Canadian NCP submitted to the OECD in January 2020 (based on the calendar year) in fulfilment of Canada's adherence to the OECD Guidelines. (gc.ca)
  • TALLINN, 9 September 2020 - on 9-11 September, the Auditor General Janar Holm is participating in the IX joint video conference of the Supreme Audit Institutions of Europe and Latin America (EUROSAI-OLACEFS) hosted by the State Audit Office of Hungary. (riigikontroll.ee)
  • The majority of just over 130 students admitted in 2020 who stated a Latin American country as their country of education came from Brazil, Mexico or Colombia. (lu.se)
  • Chile and Uruguay continue to lead the ranking as the best education systems in Latin America, but their performance is on average two years behind of OECD students. (worldbank.org)
  • Currently, Mexico, Chile and Colombia are the only Latin American members of the OECD. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • FELIPE LARRAÍN BASCUÑÁN, AM '83, PhD '85, economics, is a professor of economics at the Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, and the director of the Latin American Center of Economic and Social Policies (CLAPES UC), which he also directed between 2014 and 2018. (harvard.edu)
  • Chile is often lauded as Latin America's great economic success story. (ceoworld.biz)
  • Chile is the most unequal of OECD countries, with an income gap that's about 65% higher than the OECD average. (ceoworld.biz)
  • Despite progress in macroeconomic management and in their ability to attract foreign investment, Latin America's economies are still vulnerable to the ups and downs of the volatility, inflation and currency fluctuations of the global economy. (cepal.org)
  • The OECD Development Centre was established in 1961 as an independent platform for knowledge sharing and policy dialogue between Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries and developing economies, allowing these countries to interact on an equal footing. (wikipedia.org)
  • The U.S. president, at a joint news conference with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, also pledged American support for Brazil to join the 36-member Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD), which includes most of the highly-developed economies. (voanews.com)
  • Productivity growth remains modest compared to that of the OECD countries and other emerging economies. (friendsofeurope.org)
  • While commodity exports increased, Latin American economies substituted locally made goods for imports, contributing to a slowdown in regional manufacturing. (friendsofeurope.org)
  • Industrial policy can be a key factor in driving economic modernisation, as emerging Asian economies and OECD countries have shown. (friendsofeurope.org)
  • It places Latin American economies and economic policies in a world context. (nber.org)
  • Driven by growing populations, higher incomes, urbanization and changing diets, consumption of the main agricultural commodities will increase most rapidly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, followed by Latin America and other Asian economies. (fao.org)
  • This report draws the OECD work on science and innovation policy analysis and measurement, reviewing key trends in science, technology and innovation (STI) policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, including OECD countries and major emerging economies. (telefonica.com)
  • Data and metadata for OECD countries but also some selected non-member economies. (lu.se)
  • What are the main lessons from the latest results from PISA 2018 for Latin America? (worldbank.org)
  • The results from the latest PISA, conducted in 2018, were released on December 3, 2019 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (worldbank.org)
  • How many countries from Latin America participated in PISA 2018? (worldbank.org)
  • The PISA 2018 results confirm that Latin America is facing a learning crisis. (worldbank.org)
  • Canada's NCP underwent its first peer review by the OECD on February 15 -16, 2018 in Ottawa, Canada. (gc.ca)
  • In November 2019, Canada reported back to the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct on its progress in addressing the recommendations raised in the Peer Review report, which included recommendations to increase the NCP's visibility, accessibility and impartiality (find the Final Peer Review Report published in December 2018). (gc.ca)
  • At the beginning of 2018, Henrique Meirelles, the then Finance Minister, along with Angel Gurría, the OECD Secretary-General, and Jorge António Rachid, the Secretary of the local tax authorities, launched an OECD-Brazil work programme to start making local transfer pricing (TP) rules more compatible with the OECD TP guidelines. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • OECD investments in inland transport infrastructure as a percentage of the GDP remained stable at 0.7% in 2018. (itf-oecd.org)
  • The OECD gross fixed capital formation (investment) in inland transport infrastructure expressed as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) remained stable at 0.7% in 2018. (itf-oecd.org)
  • Between 2008 and 2018, Latin America's middle class - defined as comprising of households with between 75.0% and 125% of median income - expanded from 33 million households to 46 million households. (euromonitor.com)
  • As a proportion, Latin America's middle class accounted for 25.8% of total households in 2018, an increase from 22.9% of total households in 2008. (euromonitor.com)
  • In 2018, 14% of the population aged 15+ in Latin America had attained a higher education degree, a rise from 8% in 2000. (euromonitor.com)
  • In 2018, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs established a national action plan for Latin America which emphasises the role of universities as relevant agents to promote collaboration with the region. (lu.se)
  • This is a "middle class" quite different from the group that became the engine of development in many OECD countries. (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • Countries enjoying high economic growth should take advantage of the opportunity to make the structural and social reforms necessary to ensure that the growth is sustainable," said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria. (cepal.org)
  • With one in three Latin Americans - 180 million people - living below the poverty line and ten of the countries in the region ranking in the 15 most unequal in the world, a more diversified and productive economy is critical to sustaining and improving growth and to reducing inequality. (cepal.org)
  • Today, 25 OECD member countries and 29 non-OECD member countries are members of the Centre. (wikipedia.org)
  • Indeed, 2011 marks the 20th year in which the U.S. statutory tax rate has been above the simple average of non-U.S. countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). (taxfoundation.org)
  • Are the determinants of CO2 emissions converging among OECD countries? (repec.org)
  • This paper studies convergence in CO2 emission intensity (CO2 over GDP) among OECD countries over the period 1960-2008 based on its determinants, namely, energy intensity (energy consumption over GDP) and the so-called carbonisation index (CO2 emissions over energy consumption). (repec.org)
  • Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean's approach is based on the well-established methodology of the OECD Revenue Statistics database, which is an essential reference source for OECD member countries. (oecd.org)
  • The two countries have never had particularly close relations, with Brazil traditionally wary of American influence in Latin America. (voanews.com)
  • What our students in Latin America know and can do compared to students in other countries? (worldbank.org)
  • One in two students in the region does not reach the basic reading proficiency level required in PISA assessment compared to one in five students in the OECD countries (Figure 2). (worldbank.org)
  • It is important to note that the stagnation of results is also observed among most of the OECD countries. (worldbank.org)
  • Nowadays, the conditions to join the OECD have changed, and Brazil's 2017 request has been subject to a more stringent evaluation with additional requests for economic adjustments and the possibility to be subject to veto by OECD member countries. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • BaseFirma believes that Brazil's acceptance to the OECD should not be contingent upon its non-inclusion in the list of countries that the WTO supports in its effort to overcome poverty and become more developed. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • That was not the case for countries such South Korea, Mexico and Turkey, which are members of both the G20 and the OECD, and are also included in the WTO's list of developing countries. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • This paper investigates whether there is energy intensity convergence in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries or not by using annual data from the 1980-2011 period. (scirp.org)
  • Further investigation of geographical differences reveals that the OECD and Eurasian countries show considerable, continued convergence, while the Sub-Saharan African countries show convergence amongst themselves, but at a slower rate than the OECD and Eurasian countries. (scirp.org)
  • The OECD/FAO Outlook warns: "As long as food stocks in major producing and consuming countries remain low, the risk of price volatility is amplified. (fao.org)
  • The data for the non-Communist countries are from publications of the United Nations, the Organi- zation for Economic Cooperation and Develop- ment (OECD), publications of US Government agencies, unclassified publications of other in- ternational organizations or individual coun- tries, or are estimates of this Office. (cia.gov)
  • The term Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) includes all the developed countries, except Liechten- stein, Malta, Israel, and the Republic of South Africa. (cia.gov)
  • In this indicator FSU is included in non-OECD countries together with Latin, America, China, South East Asia, Africa. (europa.eu)
  • The 36-member OECD club of mostly rich countries had long hailed Chile's prosperity. (ceoworld.biz)
  • We specialize in the politics of OECD countries, but many of us also do research on Eastern Europe, Latin America, and other regions. (lu.se)
  • Nowadays, half of the law school students in several countries are women, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). (lu.se)
  • LU applies the accepted cultural geography definition of the American continent in which Latin America comprises all the countries south of the USA whose official language is a Romance language. (lu.se)
  • Featuring contributions from Latin America, Africa and Asia, this much-needed collection answers some of the key questions arising as development policy confronts the challenges of poverty and inequality on the global, national and local scale in both urban and rural contexts. (bloomsbury.com)
  • 20 November 2019 - OECD and INDECOPI launch new regional centre to provide capacity building assistance and policy advice for competition officials in Latin America. (oecd.org)
  • 19 November 2019 - The OECD and Argentina's Competition Authority have partnered to review Argentina's procurement practices in the public works sector. (oecd.org)
  • In March 2019, during a state visit by the Brazilian president to the US, Bolsonaro secured US President Donald Trump's support for the country's entry into the OECD. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • Moreover, following the political role often attributed to the middle classes by historians and sociologists, they might also support moderate but progressive political platforms in Latin America's democracies. (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • Poverty still affects 28% of Latin America's population, about 164 million people. (friendsofeurope.org)
  • Latin America's middle class has been expanding over the past decade, both in absolute terms and as a share of total households. (euromonitor.com)
  • Euromonitor International predicts that Latin America's middle class expansion will continue on the back of forecast stronger economic performance in the coming years. (euromonitor.com)
  • One thing to note, however, is that Latin America's middle class - and the region's consumers, in general - is characterised by the great importance they place on living in the present and their consistently low savings ratios. (euromonitor.com)
  • A low savings ratio, coupled with the fact that Latin America's middle class consumption is often financed by consumer credit, means that middle class households in the region may have little or no safeguard against financial uncertainties, thus increasing their vulnerability and risk of falling back into poverty. (euromonitor.com)
  • December 2022 - The latest release of the newsletter of the OECD Regional Centre for Competition in Latin America is out. (oecd.org)
  • This newsletter reports on the activities of the OECD Regional Centre for Competition in Latin America. (oecd.org)
  • Centro Interamericano de Administraciones Tributarias (Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations). (oecd.org)
  • Peru and Brazil have both partenered with the OECD to assess their public procurement practices. (oecd.org)
  • Bolsonaro, speaking in Portuguese, said his visit begins a new chapter of cooperation between Brazil and the United States, adding that with his recent election, 'Brazil has a president who is not anti-American, which is unprecedented in recent decades. (voanews.com)
  • Just ahead of the meeting between the two leaders, the United States and Brazil signed an agreement to support American space launches from Brazil. (voanews.com)
  • If we can find common ground with them on some key specific initiatives,' the U.S. relationship with Brazil and South America, as a whole, can be realigned, according to Noriega, an American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow. (voanews.com)
  • Brazil made a formal application to join the OECD in 2017, but the process is still mired with political uncertainty. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • In May 2017, Brazil sent a formal request to join the OECD. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • However, the acceptance of Brazil as an OECD member is currently uncertain. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • The decision to accept Brazil into the OECD is now partly dependent on the OECD Committee for Tax Affairs, one of the 23 committees that advise the OECD Council. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • The recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as the new president of Brazil, and Paulo Guedes as Finance Minister, has raised doubts on whether the government would continue to seek membership of the OECD. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • As mentioned above, the acceptance of Brazil to the OECD is subject to veto from its members. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • The government also introduced OECD recommendations on corporate governance for state-owned enterprises to promote transparency and accountability during the procurement process. (state.gov)
  • The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022 expects prices to remain above historical averages over the medium term for both crop and livestock products due to a combination of slower production growth and stronger demand, including for biofuels. (fao.org)
  • But now their two leaders find themselves in sync on concerns about the Maduro regime in Venezuela, Cuba's involvement in that country, and the threat from China's rising influence on domestic politics in South and Central America. (voanews.com)
  • Canada's NCP has also continued to support and actively engage with the OECD and the global Network of NCPs. (gc.ca)
  • EUROSAI-OLACEFS conferences taking place every two years alternatively in Europe and Latin America have been held since 2000, and their aim is to share public sector audit experiences and facilitate cooperation between the supreme audit institutions of Europe and Latin America. (riigikontroll.ee)
  • Latin American Economic Outlook 2011 : How Middle-Class Is Latin America? (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • This year's Latin American Economic Outlook focuses on those in the middle of the income distribution in Latin America. (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • To ensure continued progress, these regions must now turn such growth into sustainable economic and social development, according to OECD and ECLAC's 2012 Latin American Economic Outlook presented at the XXI Iberoamerican Summit in Asunción. (cepal.org)
  • The Latin American Economic Outlook recommends that the region implement new policies to enhance competitiveness and economic diversification. (cepal.org)
  • Presenting the joint report in Beijing, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said: "The outlook for global agriculture is relatively bright with strong demand, expanding trade and high prices. (fao.org)
  • Brazil's competition authority (CADE) has invited the OECD to assess laws and regulations in the sectors of ports and civil aviation. (oecd.org)
  • Just a few years ago, Brazil's chances for acceptance into the OECD were much more favorable. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • Following Brazil's application for OECD membership in 2017, which was supported by former President Michel Temer, several lobbying attempts by the Brazilian authorities have been made to expedite the process. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • However, last January, during the World Economic Forum at Davos, Guedes met with Gurría and indicated Brazil's intention to enter the OECD as soon as possible. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • 6 June 2013, Beijing - Global agricultural production is expected to grow 1.5 percent a year on average over the coming decade, compared with annual growth of 2.1 percent between 2003 and 2012, according to a new report published by the OECD and FAO today. (fao.org)
  • To capture a share of these economic benefits, governments will need to invest in their agricultural sectors to encourage innovation, increase productivity and improve integration in global value chains, FAO and OECD stressed. (fao.org)
  • The Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD have collaborated on a series of reviews of competition law and policy regimes in Latin America since 2003. (oecd.org)
  • A consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, he also served as a consultant and a member of the board of directors of several companies in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. (harvard.edu)
  • OLACEFS is a sub-organisation of INTOSAI uniting the state audit offices of Latin America. (riigikontroll.ee)
  • The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. (lu.se)
  • The Internet Economy - Regulatory Challenges and Practices, OECD. (telefonica.com)
  • Multi-dimensional Country Reviews (MDCRs): a tool that contributes to the implementation of the OECD Strategy for Development and directly engages non-Members. (wikipedia.org)
  • Non-convergence is less strongly rejected for Middle East, OECD and Europe sub-groups. (scirp.org)
  • Professor Larraín has published 18 books and 140 scholarly articles in specialized journals and books in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia. (harvard.edu)
  • The paper quantifies the cost of regulation in Latin America and OECD Europe and discusses the origin of regulation. (nber.org)
  • It shows the fragility of time series data analyses of the sort widely used to analyze the impact of regulation in OECD Europe and the benefits of using microdata data. (nber.org)
  • Of particular note, the international presenters and other external invitees represented a cross section of global financial services, with experts coming from North and South America, Europe and the UK, and China. (bfsb-bahamas.com)
  • Nearly 200 participants from Europe and Latin America are expected to attend the video conference. (riigikontroll.ee)
  • Since 2008, the severe reduction in global demand for commodities, goods and services as a result of the liquidity crisis and the loss of trust in the financial sector in the United States of America and Europe has considerably slowed down the global economy. (who.int)
  • The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Against this background, LU's reference group for Latin America has been tasked by the international council with drawing up the present action plan. (lu.se)
  • For example, in 2008 Latin America´s tax revenues were 19% as a share of GDP, just over half the 35% collected on average across the OECD. (cepal.org)
  • As Figure 1 indicates, the simple average of non-U.S. OECD nations has fallen from 38 percent in 1992 (the first year in which it fell below the U.S. rate) to 25.5 percent today. (taxfoundation.org)
  • After the scheduled rate cuts in Japan and Great Britain take effect, the simple average of non-U.S. OECD nations will drop to about 25 percent and the weighted average will hit 29 percent. (taxfoundation.org)
  • In Latin America, 57% of exports consist of perishable or logistics-intensive products, three times more than the OECD average. (friendsofeurope.org)
  • On average, 15-year-old students in the region are three years behind in reading, mathematics, and science of a student in an OECD country (Figure 1). (worldbank.org)
  • The NCP works to promote awareness of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (OECD Guidelines) among stakeholders and assist in furthering the implementation of the OECD Guidelines by companies, including through preventing and minimizing negative impacts of their activities on the societies in which they operate. (gc.ca)
  • The Brazilian government believed that becoming an OECD member would help attract foreign investment into the economy. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • The OECD publishes this interesting report in which it tries to widely measure the direct and indirect impact of the digital economy in our societies, at least the ones included in the OECD. (telefonica.com)
  • The Mobile Economy, Latin America, GSMA. (telefonica.com)
  • Like elsewhere, the expansion of the middle class in Latin America will drive growth across all consumption categories, creating opportunities for consumer-focused businesses . (euromonitor.com)
  • Led by ILO, UN Women and the OECD, the multi-stakeholder coalition had its global launch in September 2017, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (ilo.org)
  • ITR's latest quarterly PDF is going live today, leading on the looming battle between the UN and the OECD for dominance in global tax policy. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • Latin America grew in 2014 at the slowest pace in five years - lower than the OECD for the first time in a decade. (friendsofeurope.org)
  • With Curaçao's new OECD & EU compliant tax system and historic (juridical) stability of the Dutch kingdom's absolute legal certainty, Curaçao offers concrete structuring solutions to internationally operating companies and to clients who are struggling with assets and wealth transfer questions. (step.org)
  • Increasing the level of tax revenue would allow Latin American governments to invest more and improve public services. (cepal.org)
  • Over the past ten years, Canada has cut its rate more than 13 percentage points, which dropped it eight places in the OECD rankings. (taxfoundation.org)
  • The 23 OECD Committees deal with various topics that range from fiscal, to the environment, education, and policies specific to topics such as the working group on bribery on international business transactions, which are all guided by OECD's core values. (internationaltaxreview.com)
  • More recently, despite the regional economic downturn, the middle class in Latin America has nevertheless continued to expand thanks to better education leading to more people being able to take up better paid jobs. (euromonitor.com)
  • Bank lending more than doubled from 1971 to 1973, then "levelled off for the next two years, despite the enormous increase in oil bills" from late 1973, the OECD reported, adding that "the most decisive and dramatic increase in bank lending was associated with the major commodity price boom of 1972-73 - before the oil shock. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • As the middle class is the foundation and driver of the consumer market, the prediction of a continued expansion of the middle class in Latin America on the back of improved economic performance is positive news for companies doing business in the region. (euromonitor.com)
  • Latin America is a development region with great potential. (lu.se)