A Latin America Initiative Event
Featuring
Augusto de la Torre
Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank
Santiago Levy
Vice-President, Inter-American Development Bank
Nora Lustig
Professor, Tulane University
Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Latin America stands out in the developing world as a region where growth prospects are being significantly revised downwards by multilateral organizations and market analysts. What’s next for a region facing slowing economic growth? To understand these developments and advance policy recommendations, the panel discussed a number of issues facing Latin American growth and development in the road ahead.
• What additional risk factors in the external environment might hit the region even harder? And is the region ready to face them? Can lower growth turn into crisis?
• Beyond the short-term outlook, what long-standing domestic constraints can seriously impair Latin America’s future growth?
• Can the productivity-gap challenges be met? How?
• After a decade of improvements, has declining inequality come to an end?
Presentations
Growth, Redistribution, Poverty and the Middle Class, by Nora Lustig
Productivity in Latin America, by Santiago Levy
Saving for Growth: New Views on an Old Latin American Debate, by Augusto de la Torre
