Government strategies for setting energy prices are not uniform across the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region-- or even across fuels. Instead, they cover a full spectrum, ranging from discretionary price-fixing at one end to pure market-based approaches at the other. In between is a...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Our Study -- Our Findings -- Organization of This Report -- Note -- Reference -- Chapter 1 Energy Markets in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region: Setting...

This paper shows evidence that suggests the economic slowdown in Latin America and the Caribbean has already translated into slowing social gains, including decelerating poverty reduction, stagnating growth of the middle class, and lower income growth. The countries of South America outperformed...