By Clara de Souza Peixoto In this post, I’d like to tell you about some important changes taking place in Panama. Although descriptions of institutional reforms, regulatory changes, and the management issues behind public policy may come off as a bit dry, my intent is to write about the foundations on which we hope to coordinate interventions that produce concrete results in … [Read more...] about Good News from Panama
Urgent: Managers Wanted!
Child care services are in a serious process of expansion. Data from a recent IDB study documents that in a sample of 34 programs that offer this service in 19 countries, over the past five years, enrollment has grown by 117% while the number of centers and the amount of staff serving them has increased by 60%. This means that centers are operating with more children and more … [Read more...] about Urgent: Managers Wanted!
Building the middle class
The philosopher John Rawls invites us to imagine our lives if tomorrow we were reborn under a veil of ignorance, in other words, knowing nothing about the home or country we come from, nor our parents’ level of education or income. Would you be up for it? Probably not. … [Read more...] about Building the middle class
Heterogeneous quality of crèches and preschools in Brazil
In collaboration with Sophie Gardiner The forthcoming IDB publication "Panorama sobre desarrollo infantil en America Latina y el Caribe: Un estudio comparativo" (Overview of Early Childhood Development Services in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Study), by María Caridad Araujo, Florencia López-Boo and Juan Manuel Puyana, and two other recent IDB studies on … [Read more...] about Heterogeneous quality of crèches and preschools in Brazil
The Century of the Child?
Last week in New York, I stumbled upon a fantastic exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) called Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000. I definitely recommend visiting the exhibition’s interactive web page. It’s truly worth it, and you don’t even have to travel to NYC or pay admission to MoMA. … [Read more...] about The Century of the Child?