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- Special focus on the link between growth, labor productivity, and informality, highlighting need to address informal employment to boost productivity.
- Calls for strategies promoting productive formalization to improve employment quality, expand social protection, and strengthen businesses' productive capacities.
- ECLAC provides a comprehensive review of 2025 and early 2026 performance, external and domestic constraints, policy trends, and country-level projections.
SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Friday announced that it will present its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2026 on August 20.
It said the report, one of the institution’s flagship annual publications, examines the evolution of the region’s economies amid high informality, constraints, and challenges in fostering productive formalization, and will present growth projections for 2026 and 2027.
ECLAC said that the publication analyses regional economic performance in 2025 and the early months of 2026, along with the external and domestic factors that constrain growth prospects.
It said the report covers the international context, external accounts, economic activity, and the evolution of employment, inflation, and fiscal and monetary policies in the region, providing updated growth projections for each of Latin America and the Caribbean’s countries and regional statistical annexes.
The special subject featured in the latest survey is the close relationship between growth, labor productivity, and informality.
Based on this analysis, the report also calls for strategies to promote productive formalization that, in addition to improving the quality of employment and expanding social protection, would strengthen people’s and businesses’ productive capacities and help increase the growth capacity of the region’s economies.
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, will launch the report in person and virtually.
