Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean has been disappointing. For commodity exporters, the exceptional 2002-2012 boom boosted investment and relaxed fiscal constraints, but many countries made little progress on improving underlying productivity and their medium-term growth potential. In other countries, particularly some in the Caribbean and Central America, negative … [Read more...] about Boosting Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
Francesca Castellani
Is Chief of the Strategic Planning and Monitoring Division of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. Before joining the Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness, she was Principal Economist and Senior Advisor in the Office of the Vice President for Countries, Lead Economist in the Andean Group Department in Washington DC, and Country Economist in the IDB Office in Bogotá. Francesca worked at the OECD in Paris, the World Bank in Washington DC and UNCTAD in Geneva, Switzerland. She is an economist from Bocconi University in Milan with a master's degree and a doctorate in economics from the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland.