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Latin America and the Caribbean Region
Invite you to a debate focusing on how informality impacts
development, and highlighting the economic and individual costs of
informality for poor and vulnerable people in Latin America and the
Caribbean working outside the formal economy.
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| (Embedded image moved to | Informality: Exit and Exclusion in |
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| | by Guillermo E. Perry, William F. |
| | Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo |
| | Fajnzylber, Andrew Mason, Jaime |
| | Saavedra-Chanduvi |
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| | Informality in Latin American and |
| | Caribbean countries has been a |
| | growing phenomenon over the last |
| | few decades, garnering attention |
| | as a potential brake on growth and |
| | on improvements in family welfare, |
| | and as a force corrosive to the |
| | integrity of society. |
| | Informality: Exit and Exclusion |
| | analyzes informality in Latin |
| | America, exploring root causes and |
| | reasons for and implications of |
| | its growth. |
| | The study concludes that reducing |
| | informality levels will require |
| | actions to increase aggregate |
| | productivity in the economy, |
| | reform poorly designed regulations |
| | and social policies, and increase |
| | the legitimacy of the state. |
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
11:00 a.m.
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served
Presented by
Guillermo Perry
Retiring World Bank Regional Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, World Bank
Guillermo Perry has been Chief Economist of the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region at the World Bank since 1996. Prior to joining
the World Bank, Mr. Perry served in several senior policy-making
positions in his native country, Colombia, including that of
Minister of Finance and Public Credit; Minister of Mining and
Energy; and Director of the General Directorate of National Taxes.
He served as a member of the Constitutional Assembly and of the
Senate of the Republic in Colombia. He was also Director of two of
Colombia?s leading economic think-tanks (Fedesarrollo and CEDE) and
has been professor at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad
Nacional de Colombia. For more information, please click here:
Guillermo Perry Bio.
William Maloney
Lead Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
William F. Maloney is Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief
Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank.
Before joining the Bank permanently, he was Professor of
International and Development Economics at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1990-1997). He also served as a
consultant for the Bank on Mexico (1994-95) and Nigeria (1986) and
the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1982). Mr. Maloney has
published on issues related to international trade, the impact and
sequencing of liberalization, speculative attacks on currencies, and
developing country labor markets. For more information, please click
here: William Maloney bio
Comments by
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Liliana Rojas-Suarez is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global
Development. She is also the Chair of the Latin American Shadow
Financial Regulatory Committee(CLAFF). From March 1998 to October
2000, she served as Managing Director and Chief Economist for Latin
America at Deutsche Bank. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ms.
Rojas-Suarez was the Principal Advisor in the Office of the Chief
Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1984-1994
she held various positions at the International Monetary Fund, most
recently as Deputy Chief of the Capital Markets and Financial
Studies Division of the Research Department. She has been a Visiting
Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and has also
served as a Professor at Anahuac University in Mexico and an Advisor
for PEMEX, Mexico's National Petroleum Company. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has
also testified before a Joint Committee of the US Senate on the
issue of dollarization in Latin America. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has
published widely in the areas of macroeconomic policy, international
economics and financial markets. For more information, please click
here: Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Maria Claudia Camacho
Specialist, Department of Social Development and Employment, Organization of
American States
Maria Claudia Camacho is a Labor Specialist in the Department of
Social Development and Employment at the Organization of American
States (OAS). In her current position, she is in charge of
coordinating the activities related to the Inter-American Conference
of Ministers of Labor, which aims to set the hemispheric policy
priorities and actions on labor issues. Before joining the OAS, Ms.
Camacho worked as a consultant for the World Bank on a project
regarding youth programs and policies. In Colombia, her home
country, she worked at the Red de Solidaridad Social and UNDP,
designing and evaluating programs aimed at addressing the needs of
vulnerable groups. Her academic, personal and professional
interests have been focused on labor markets in Latin America and on
the challenges presented by the informal economy.
Moderated by
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean External Affairs
Department, World Bank
Sergio Alvaro Jellinek was recently appointed as Communications
Advisor for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World
Bank. Before holding this position, he was the Communications
Advisor for Sustainable Development at the World Bank. Working in
the Latin America and the Caribbean Vice-Presidency, Mr. Jellinek
oversees communications for the Bank?s entire action field within
the region. He is also a founder of Com+ Alliance, which is a
partnership of international organizations and communications
professionals who are committed to using communications to advance a
vision of sustainable development that integrates its three pillars:
economic, social, and environmental, and that works worldwide. He
has extensive experience in developing countries both as a working
journalist and as an advisor to international organizations.
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