Latin America: five years after the storm: economic and social challenges

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Juan Carlos Moreno Brid (National Autonomous University of Mexico-UNAM)- Latin America's golden years of 2003-08, marked by high growth and major reductions in poverty were abruptly cut short in 2009 by the adverse effects brought about by the international financial crisis.  Today, five years after that storm, What are the region's economic and social perspectives  and the main challenges that it faces in its far from fulfilled quest for development?

Juan Carlos Moreno Brid is Currently Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics UNAM (Mexico), having retired in April 2015 as Deputy Director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL in Spanish) in Mexico, which he joined in 2000 after years as a Research Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University). Specialized in economic development and growth of Latin America, he has published numerous articles in academic journals. His recent books are Structural change and growth in Central America and Dominican Republic (ECLAC, 2014) and Development and growth in the Mexican economy: a historical perspective (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014; and in English by Oxford University Press).