Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2024
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The 2024 edition of Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean provides the latest available evidence on public administrations and their performance in the LAC region and compares it to OECD countries. It includes indicators on trust in public institutions and satisfaction with public services, as well as evidence on good governance practices in areas such as the policy cycle, budgeting, public procurement, infrastructure planning and delivery, regulatory governance, digital government and open government data. Finally, it provides information on what resources public institutions use and how they are managed, including public finances, public employment, and human resources management. Government at a Glance allows for cross-country comparisons and helps identify trends, best practices, and areas for improvement in the public sector. Governance indicators are especially useful for monitoring and benchmarking governments’ progress in their public sector reforms. Each indicator in the publication is presented in a user‑friendly format, consisting of graphs and/or charts illustrating variations across countries and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings of the data, and a methodological section on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability.
Also available in: Spanish
Special feature: Managing health spending during COVID-19
Health systems worldwide were at the forefront of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a context of urgency and uncertainty, additional financial resources were allocated to this sector, and procedures were often relaxed to cope with emergency requirements. As a result, and in a similar way to OECD countries, Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries resorted to the use of contingency and extra-budgetary funds, supplementary budgets, and other measures including loans and resource readjustments, as well as tracking these measures. As elsewhere, the response to the COVID-19 within LAC was not homogeneous and was influenced by different institutional realities and the available tools.
Also available in: Spanish
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