Mejora regulatoria en América Latina (Better Regulation in Latin America), a collective volume bringing together seventeen authors from the region, will soon be launched. Renny Reyes, founder and director of PAARS, is the editor of the book and the author of its introduction and two of its chapters.

Please note that the book will be published in Spanish only.

Does better regulation change when it is viewed from, and for, Latin America? That is the question the book starts from. For years, much of the literature, good practices and examples available on the subject were built on societies, cultures and systems of government very different from those of the region. That knowledge remains valuable, but it does not always respond first to what a Latin American administration needs to solve. Today the region has its own experience, with successes, failures and ideas that emerged from within, and the book places that experience at the centre.

The authors, whose careers span public service, academia and consulting, examine better regulation through conditions that, taken together, set the region apart. Presidentialism concentrates decision-making in the executive and leaves reforms exposed to the political cycle. Informality keeps a large share of those who must comply out of official registries. Public capacities vary across institutions and territories. And rules do not always turn into practice. None of these conditions is unique to the region, but their combination changes the questions that need to be asked before applying any tool.

From that perspective, the fourteen chapters trace the evolution of better regulation policy, its institutionalisation and the capacities it needs to be sustained, and then follow its tools across the regulatory cycle, from impact assessment, public consultation and the review of the regulatory stock to regulatory delivery, risk-based regulation, administrative simplification, accountability, regulatory innovation and sandboxes. The experiences of countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and the Dominican Republic run throughout. The thread connecting the chapters is that no tool produces results simply by being adopted.

The book offers neither recipes nor superior models. It turns the region’s experience into questions and mechanisms that those who design, apply, oversee or study regulation can consult, adapt and even challenge, so that comparison between countries serves as learning rather than transplant.

Renny Reyes’s two chapters address themes that are part of the everyday work at PAARS. “AIR 2.0 para América Latina” (RIA 2.0 for Latin America), written with Margarita Escobar, revisits the assumptions of conventional regulatory impact assessment in light of the region’s informality and inequality. “Rendición de cuentas y mejora regulatoria” (Accountability and Better Regulation) asks when better regulation tools produce accountability and when they do little more than generate documents. We will return to both, and to the rest of the book, in more detail in a forthcoming post once the book is in circulation.

The book is intended for public officials, regulators, academics, consultants and students who work with regulation in the region or who study it from outside.

The book will be launched in person on 16 October 2026 at 9:00 a.m. at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

A virtual presentation with a panel of authors will follow on 4 November 2026.

For registration and further information on either event, please write to registro@paarsconsulting.com.

To obtain a copy of the book, write to publicaciones@paarsconsulting.com and we will send you further details by email.