Executive Report
The project now presents a transparent, doctoral-portfolio-quality reconstruction of financial development in Latin America. It combines official WDI data, regulator-source recovery, PCA, clustering, sensitivity analysis and panel-model diagnostics. Repository: latin-america-financial-development-lab.
Scientific status
Research compendium
Research compendium
Reconstruction
Public-data complete; legacy exact partial
Public-data complete; legacy exact partial
Top index
Brazil
Brazil
Bolivia
Above the regional median
Above the regional median
Main Findings
- The region separates into shallow, intermediate and deep financial-system profiles.
- Rankings are mostly informative but some countries are sensitive to the weighting scheme.
- Fixed-effects models support treating pooled OLS as descriptive only.
- Bolivia is analytically visible but requires sector-credit reconstruction for stronger policy claims.
Portfolio Value
The repository now signals research integrity, data reconstruction, empirical modeling, visualization and policy communication. It is stronger as a Research Assistant / doctoral application artifact because it explains what can and cannot be inferred.