Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at [email protected]. Lee en español. By Kimberly Josephson and Gabriela Guerrero. Lucía walks 30 minutes to a home in a rural community in Peru, where she is greeted by a mother and her son. She asks how things are going and asks about the … [Read more...] about All Work and Low Pay: Why We Need to Pay More Attention to the Early Childhood Workforce
What Are the Most Pressing Development Needs According to People in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at [email protected]. Lee en español. By Tracy Betts. I recently shared the results of an interesting survey commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank in which over 33,500 respondents across the Americas defined their priorities for … [Read more...] about What Are the Most Pressing Development Needs According to People in Latin America and the Caribbean?
The Instruments that Work for You might not Work for All
Copyright © 2017. Inter-American Development Bank. If you wish to republish an article, please ask for permission at [email protected]. By Florencia Lopez Boo and Marta Dormal. We have learned in this blog that policymakers and researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can measure the quality of their Early Childhood Development (ECD) services in … [Read more...] about The Instruments that Work for You might not Work for All
A Cup of Coffee that Stimulates more than Your Brain in the Morning
Copyright © 2016. Inter-American Development Bank. If you wish to republish an article, please ask for permission at [email protected]. By Meri Helleranta. During the coffee harvest season in Nicaragua—roughly November through February—thousands of people leave their homes to work in fields and migrate from one coffee plantation to another, often taking their … [Read more...] about A Cup of Coffee that Stimulates more than Your Brain in the Morning
Measuring to Improve and Improving Measurements
Copyright © 2016. Inter-American Development Bank. If you wish to republish an article, please ask for permission at [email protected]. By Marta Dormal. Growing evidence suggests that low-quality childcare services can not only fail to produce the desired outcomes in terms of child development, but, in some cases, also be detrimental to participant children. In … [Read more...] about Measuring to Improve and Improving Measurements