Promising economic growth during the 2000s obfuscates the reality that Latin American countries are facing the acute threat of a middle income trap. In this paper I distinguish two approaches to the middle income trap: one focuses mainly on the lack of structural change, the driving forces...

For the fifth time, the countries of the region are convening in the framework of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development. On each occasion, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has presented a report on regional...