This document was coordinated by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with the support of Mario Cimoli, Deputy Executive Secretary, and Luis Yáñez, Secretary of the Commission.

The drafting committee was coordinated by Wilson Peres and Gabriel Porcile and comprised José Eduardo Alatorre, Vianka Aliaga, Mareike Eberz, Lydia Rosa Gény, Vera Kiss, Carlos Maldonado Valera, Enrique Oviedo, Ramón Padilla, Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Lucía Scuro, Humberto Soto de la Rosa, Daniel Taccari, Marcia Tambutti, Daniela Trucco, Iliana Vaca Trigo and Romain Zivy, all of ECLAC.

The following chiefs of ECLAC substantive divisions, subregional headquarters and country offices participated in the preparation of this document: Daniel Titelman, Chief of the Economic Development Division; Rolando Ocampo, Chief of the Statistics Division; Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Chief of the Social Development Division; Simone Cecchini, Chief of the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE)-Population Division of ECLAC; Cielo Morales, Chief of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES); Alvaro Calderón, Officer in Charge of the Division of Production, Productivity and Management; Joseluis Samaniego, Chief of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division; Jeannette Sánchez, Chief of the Natural Resources Division; Ana Güezmes, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs; Keiji Inoue, Officer in Charge of the Division of International Trade and Integration; Miguel Torres, Editor of the CEPAL Review; Hugo Beteta, Chief of the ECLAC subregional headquarters in Mexico; Diane Quarless, Chief of the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean; Olga Lucía Acosta, Officer in Charge of the ECLAC office in Bogotá; Carlos Mussi, Chief of the ECLAC office in Brasilia; Martín Abeles, Chief of the ECLAC office in Buenos Aires; Gabriel Porcile, Officer in Charge of the ECLAC office in Montevideo; and Raquel Artecona, Officer in Charge of the ECLAC office in Washington, D.C.

The authors are particularly grateful for the collaboration of the following staff members of ECLAC: Abdullahi Abdulkadri, Dillon Alleyne, Diego Aulestia, Mario Castillo, Camilo Cid, Carlos de Miguel, Jimy Ferrer, Luis Flores, Nicolo Gligo, Camila Gramkow, Karen Haase, Sebastián Herreros, Mariana Huepe, Martin Kohout, Zebulun Kreiter, Luiz Krieger, Bruno Lana, María Luisa Marinho, Rodrigo Martínez, Sheldon McLean, Mauricio Pereira, Laura Poveda, Rayén Quiroga, Adrián Rodríguez, Fernando Sossdorf, Pauline Stockins, Joaquín Tognoli, Valeria Torres, Paul Wander and Pablo Yanes.

The following ECLAC consultants also provided input for the preparation of the document: Víctor Alvarado, Bernardo Atuesta, Camila Baron, Andrés Espejo, Gabriela Franco, Emilio Fueyo, Conrado Jiménez, Carlos Kroll, Jordi Rodríguez, Gustavo Saltó, José Suárez and Ernesto Vallejo.

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