This report is a product of the Chief Economist office for Latin America and the Caribbean (LCRCE) at the World Bank. The report was jointly prepared with the Global Practices for Energy and Extractives, for Finance and Competitiveness, for Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment, and for Poverty and Equity. It was also done in collaboration with the Chief Economist office of the Infrastructure Vice Presidency and the Development Economics Vice Presidency. The preparation of the report was led by Martín Rama (Chief Economist, LCRCE).

Substantive contributions to the report were made by Guillermo Beylis (Economist), José Andrée Camarena Fonseca (Research Analyst), Irene Anne Sophie Ezran (Extended-Term Consultant), Virgilio Galdo (Research Analyst), Ayan Qu (Extended-Term Consultant), Daniel Riera-Crichton (Research Economist), Rucheta Singh (Research Analyst) and Guillermo Vuletin (Senior Economist), all with LCRCE.

Key inputs for the analytical work on the electricity sector were provided by Debabrata Chattopadhyay (Senior Energy Specialist, IEEES), Govinda Timilsina (Senior Research Economist, DECSI), Maria Vagliasindi (Lead Economist, INFCE), and Fan Zhang (Senior Economist, INFCE). The analysis of satellite data and its relationship with economic activity builds on a collaboration with Stephen D. Morris (Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College).

Country-specific macroeconomic estimates and write-ups were produced by country economists in the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice, under the coordination of James Sampi (Economist, ELCMU).

Contributors included Sonia Araujo, Rafael Barroso, Elena Bondarenko, Luigi Butron, Bledi Celiku, Tamoya Christie, Fabiano Colbano, Barbara Cunha, Simon Davies, Anton Dobronogov, Jozef Draaisma, Paolo Dudine, Julian Folgar, Fernando Giuliano, Marek Hanusch, Johannes Herderschee, Santiago Herrera, Evans Jadotte, Santiago Justel, Woori Lee, Ran Li, Rohan Longmore, David Cal MacWilliam, Eduardo Olaberria, Rafael Ornelas, Andres Pinchao, Ruslan Piontkivsky, Anjali Shahani Moreno, Julio Velasco, Katia Vostroknutova, Christian Zambaglione and Gabriel Zaourak.

Inputs from the Global Practices for Energy and Extractives, for Finance and Competitiveness, for Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment and for Poverty and Equity were coordinated by Stephanie Gil (Practice Manager, ILCE1), Yira Mascaró (Practice Manager, ELCFN), Jorge Araujo (Practice Manager, ELCMU) and Ximena del Carpio (Practice Manager, ELCPV), respectively.

Administrative support was provided by Jacqueline Larrabure (Program Assistant, LCRCE). Alejandro Espinosa (Sonideas), Shane Kimo Romig (LCREC), Carlos Molina (Online Communications Officer, LCREC) and Gonzalo Villamizar (Consultant, LCREC) contributed on design and communication.