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About LACEA

The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association was founded in July 1992, to encourage greater professional interaction and foster increased dialogue among researchers and practitioners whose work focuses on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean. Since its inception LACEA has grown to an organization with an annual average of 800 active members. Starting from 1996, the association has held annual meetings in Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Madrid, Puebla, San José Costa Rica and Paris.

To help promote the interaction of young and seasoned economists, as well as social scientists and development practitioners, LACEA also sponsors four research networks: the Network on Inequality and Poverty (NIP); the Political Economy Group (PEG); the Regional Integration Network (RIN); and the Workshop on International Economics and Finance. Finally, since 2000, LACEA has been publishing its own journal Economia that has recently released its thirteenth issue.

LACEA has increasingly evolved to a funding allocation on the basis of a competitive process, under which funds are allocated to the various activities based both on quality standards and capacity-building criteria. LACEA funding has been used to reach out to minorities, and economists of under-represented countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as to bring policy-makers closer to the association’s activities under the GDN objective of bridging research and policy.

Legal Status of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association:

On December 3,1996 LACEA was incorporated under section 402 of the New York Not-for-profit Corporation Law as Type A Education Not-for-Profit corporation in the State of New York. On August 2, 1999 was recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue services as a tax exempt nonprofit corporation under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in section 501(c)(3).