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Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2020

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Bahamas (109.8Kb)
Barbados (111.1Kb)
Belize (110.2Kb)
Bolivia (164.4Kb)
Brazil (236.0Kb)
Chile (263.7Kb)
Colombia (226.9Kb)
Costa Rica (226.4Kb)
Cuba (213.0Kb)
Dominican Republic (221.2Kb)
ECCU (123.7Kb)
Ecuador (224.1Kb)
El Salvador (224.4Kb)
Guatemala (222.5Kb)
Guyana (106.6Kb)
Haití (213.5Kb)
Honduras (221.5Kb)
Jamaica (116.9Kb)
Mexico (229.8Kb)
Nicaragua (223.5Kb)
Panama (224.7Kb)
Paraguay (222.7Kb)
Peru (232.4Kb)
Suriname (110.7Kb)
Trinidad and Tobago (113.0Kb)
Uruguay (219.6Kb)
Venezuela (226.1Kb)
Date
2021-02-04
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NU. CEPAL
UN Symbol
LC/PUB.2020/17-P/Rev.1
LC/PUB.2020/17-P
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Abstract
In its Preliminary Overview of the Economies of the region, ECLAC forecasts an average contraction of -7.7% for 2020 – the largest in 120 years – and a rebound of 3.7% in 2021. In a context of global contraction, Latin America and the Caribbean is the region in the developing world that has been hardest hit by the crisis stemming from COVID-19. In the decade prior to the pandemic, the region was on a low-growth trajectory, and in 2020 it faces an unprecedented combination of negative supply and demand shocks, which is translating into the worst economic crisis in the last 120 years. Although the significant fiscal and monetary efforts made by countries have served to mitigate the effects of the crisis, the pandemic’s economic and social consequences have been exacerbated by the structural problems that the region has suffered historically. In 2021, ECLAC foresees a positive GDP growth rate that will fundamentally reflect a statistical rebound, but the process of recovering pre-crisis levels of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be slow and will not conclude until 2024. To keep the region from perpetuating its low-growth dynamic, expansionary fiscal and monetary policies are needed along with environmental and industrial policies, all of which would enable the structural transformations that the region requires and would promote sustainable development. It also poses the need to prioritize spending on the economic and social reactivation and transformation by fostering employment-intensive and environmentally sustainable investment in strategic sectors; to extend the basic income to people living in situations of poverty; provide financing to Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs); offer incentives for productive development, the digital revolution for sustainability and clean technologies; and universalize social protection systems. The report contends that beyond national efforts, the region’s economic reactivation and transformation will require financing and international cooperation. In this area, it stresses the need to utilize instruments such as the issuance and reallocation of the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to strengthen the reserves of the region’s countries and regional agreements; include vulnerable middle-income countries in the G20’s debt moratorium initiative (DSSI) and also set in motion the debt for climate change adaptation swap in the case of the Caribbean, along with the creation of a resilience fund; and capitalize multilateral, regional and national credit institutions.
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Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe 2020
Balanço Preliminar das Economias da América Latina e do Caribe 2020
ECLAC Subtopics
COVID-19 ; ECONOMIC INDICATORS AND PROJECTIONS ; FINANCIAL AND MONETARY SECTOR ; FISCAL AFFAIRS ; MACROECONOMICS
United Nations Subtopics
MACROECONOMICS ; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ; ECONOMIC TRENDS ; COVID-19 ; PANDEMICS ; LIQUIDITY ; ECONOMIC POLICY ; INTERNATIONAL TRADE ; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ; TRADE IN SERVICES ; CONSUMPTION ; PRICES ; INFLATION ; EMPLOYMENT ; WAGES ; FISCAL POLICY ; MONETARY POLICY ; FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES ; ECONOMIC PROJECTIONS ; ECONOMIC INDICATORS ; ECONOMIC GROWTH ; ECONOMIC CRISIS
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
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https://hdl.handle.net/11362/46504
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