Dec 2023
Author(s): Tello, Cristóbal;Riveros, Sara;Jara Maleš, Patricia
En el marco de la cooperación técnica que el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) mantiene con el Ministerio de Salud de Chile (MINSAL), se encomendó al Laboratorio de Innovación Pública de la…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Tello, Cristóbal;Riveros, Sara;Jara Maleš, Patricia
En el marco del proyecto de cooperación técnica del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) con el Ministerio de Salud de Chile (MINSAL), para el diseño e implementación de un sistema de gestión y…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Celhay, Pablo;Jiménez, Humberto
En el marco de la cooperación técnica que el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) mantiene con el Ministerio de Salud (MINSAL) de Chile, de la mano del Laboratorio de Innovación Pública de la…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Brotherhood, Luiz;Santos, Cezar;Tertilt, Michèle
This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Frisancho, Verónica;Viollaz, Mariana
Violence against women is widespread in Latin America and the Caribbean. On average, every day, 10 women are murdered in the region, and of the 25 countries with the highest rates of femicide in the…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Frisancho, Verónica;Viollaz, Mariana
In recent years, significant progress has been made toward implementing policies and programs to support gender equity in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, large disparities continue to exist…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Frisancho, Verónica;Viollaz, Mariana
The indigenous peoples and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean are far behind the rest of the population in terms of access to education, health services, and financial services,…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Frisancho, Verónica;Bustelo, Monserrat;Viollaz, Mariana
The labor force participation of women in Latin America and the Caribbean is low, and the regions gender gap is one of the widest in the world. Although important progress has been made over the last…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Frisancho, Verónica;Bustelo, Monserrat;Viollaz, Mariana
When closing diversity gaps, one of the major challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean is the limited amount of data reflecting this topic. The few statistics that are available on vulnerable…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Duryea, Suzanne;Martínez, Claudia;Pereira, María Antonella
In the past few years, the evidence-base regarding the inclusion of people with disabilities has advanced considerably, both in high- and low-to-mid income countries. This policy brief focuses on the…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Martinez, Karen;González, Sofía;Suaya, Agustina
Current carbon emission trends threaten inevitable and irreversible changes to the environment that could cost the region US$100 billion annually by 2050 and the loss of up to 2.5 million jobs by…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Suaya, Agustina;Kaplan, David S.;Etcheverry, Luciana
A significant proportion of women in the region are employed as domestic workers, but only a minority of them have access to the social security system. The labor informality observed in this sector…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Suaya, Agustina;Kaplan, David S.;Etcheverry, Luciana
El trabajo doméstico emplea a una porción importante de las mujeres en la región, pero sólo una minoría de ellas accede al sistema de seguridad social. La informalidad laboral observada en este…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Martinez, Karen;Ardila Hidalgo, Juanita;Muñoz, Ercio
Despite the progress that has been made in the region to close the gaps and inequalities that affect people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, stigma and discrimination continue…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Martinez, Karen;Ardila Hidalgo, Juanita;Muñoz, Ercio
A pesar de los avances que se han logrado en la región para cerrar las brechas y desigualdades que afectan a las personas con orientaciones sexuales e identidades de género diversas, el estigma y la…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Martinez, Karen;Suaya, Agustina
Unlike in other policy areas, responsibility for gender policy is distributed throughout the entire structure of the State. However, in order to coordinate and make public action on the gender…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Martinez, Karen;Suaya, Agustina
A diferencia de otras áreas de política, la responsabilidad de la política de género está distribuida a lo largo y ancho de toda la estructura del Estado. No obstante, para coordinar y efectivizar el…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Frisancho, Verónica;Martinez, Karen;Suaya, Agustina
By March 2020, COVID-19 was confirmed present in all Latin American and Caribbean countries. Not only did the pandemic weakened the regions economy, it exacerbated structural inequalities. Women,…
Dec 2023
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Frisancho, Verónica;Martinez, Karen;Suaya, Agustina
La presencia del COVID-19 se confirmó en todos los países de América Latina y el Caribe en marzo de 2020. La pandemia no solo debilitó el aparato económico de la región, sino que también exacerbó las…
Dec 2023
Author(s): De la O, Ana;Rossel, Cecilia;Manzi, Pilar
The seemingly upward trend in opting out from public services and the segregation of income groups in public and private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an…