Launch Seminar: Overview of Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024

ECLAC has made a diagnosis indicating that current efforts in the area of ​​PDP in Latin America and the Caribbean are: i) marginal in the face of the productivity challenge and what other countries are doing in this area; ii) disjointed, with great opportunities for improvement in the coordination between the efforts being made by different ministries, agencies, actors and levels; iii) discontinuous, in the face of changes in government, when these agendas should be medium and long term and should prioritize “building on what has been built”; iv) managed mainly from a centralist approach (top-down), from the capitals, without much involvement of the territories and local actors; v) poorly evaluated, when evaluation is essential to identify what is useful, and therefore scaled, and what is not, so that it is adjusted or discarded; vi) not necessarily aligned with the new vision of productive development policy that ECLAC has been proposing; and vii) of little impact, if examined in light of the region’s poor performance in terms of productivity and growth.