The United Nations for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) has contributed to writing the hagiography of its own members. In the late 1980s, then-executive secretary Gerth Rosenthal and José Besa García, who headed CEPAL library for 37 years, inventoried all the signed or anonymous publications of all CEPAL staff-employees or external consultants from 1948 to the early 1990s. They also added the contributions of the Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), which was founded by CEPAL in 1962 to train its own staff and public officials in economics. This monumental work, which lasted more than nine years, gave coherence and visibility to the work of the most influential cepalinos, such as Raúl Prebisch, Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz, Norberto González, Celso Furtado, Osvaldo Sunkel and Fernando Fajnzylber. It also highlighted the contribution of numerous women authors who have been largely ignored by the historiography. Until the first attempt by Rebeca Gomez Betancourt and Camila Orozco Espinel (2018) to point out the invisibility of women international economic thinkers at CEPAL, the only cepalina mentioned in the historiography of economic thought was Maria da Conceição Tavares (Klüger 2014). You can find further discussion and the full references in a 2023 EUI Working Paper, authored by ECOINT-postdoc Johanna Gautier.

The following list of publications written by women contributors to CEPAL and ILPES provides material for further research. It will be constantly updated.