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Office of the Chief Economist - LAC

The office of the Chief Economist for the Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC) region provides LAC countries with a wide range of analytical resources to support their efforts to achieve sustainable growth.

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SME RSBank Involvement with SMEs: Beyond Relationship Lending   This project tries to understand bank financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The project has been undertaken jointly at the Latin American and the Caribbean Region, the International Financial Corporation, the Finance and Private Sector Development Network, and the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank Group.

Remittances

• US Slowdown Affects Remittances in LAC  The authors of the report "Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America" stress the importance of the cost of transfers to improve the long-term impact of remittances on development. 

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Latin America and the Caribbean Better Prepared to Face US Economic Slowdown
                                     

Areas of Research
Macro Economics and International FinanceTrade and Regional Integration
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 Innovation and Higher Education Institutional Reforms and Social Capital
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 Poverty and Inequality Labor and Migration
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Past main yearly reports
Informality: Exit and Exclusion
Previous Reports

Recent Publications
Remittances and Development in Latin America
Country Insurance: Reducing Systemic Vulnerabilities in LAC
Close to Home: The Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America
Emerging Capital Markets and Globalizaiton
Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny
Assessing the Impact of Higher Oil Prices in Latin America
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Presentations

Conferences