Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2006: 2007 Trends

Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy is an annual report prepared by the Division of
International Trade and Integration of ECLAC. The Statistics and Economic Projections Division, the Economic
Development Division, the Commission’s subregional headquarters in Mexico City and Port of Spain and its
country offices in Buenos Aires, Brasilia and Washington, D.C. assisted with the preparation of this year’s edition.
Osvaldo Rosales, Director of the Division of International Trade and Integration, has overseen the preparation of the
report as a whole. Mikio Kuwayama, Officer-in-Charge of the International Trade Unit, has been responsible for its
technical coordination. In addition to Osvaldo Rosales and Mikio Kuwayama, the following individuals were involved in preparing and drafting the chapters included in this year’s edition: Jaime Contador, José Elías Durán, José Carlos Mattos, Graciela Moguillansky, Nanno Mulder and Sebastián Sáez. Valuable inputs were also provided by Raquel Artecona, Renato Baumann, Rudolf Buitalaar, Inés Bustillo, Claudia de Camino, Myriam Echeverría, Alfonso Finot, Nico
Geide, Raúl Holz, Bernardo Kosacoff, Andrew Mold, Lia Valls Pereira, Adrián Ramos, Gastón Rigollet, Juliana
Salles, Claudia Schatan and Carlos Stark.