By Carlos Perafán Latin America has a long and contentious history with its indigenous population, which has often been marginalized, underserved, and unrecognized by governments and society for centuries. For the past dozen years, however, Chile took the ambitious step to try to change this historical paradigm by implementing the region’s largest program focused exclusively … [Read more...] about Chile Builds a New Relationship with its Indigenous People
Chile
Solar power plants in the chilean desert
By Elizabeth Robberechts The Atacama Desert is among the driest regions on earth, with minimal cloud cover and high levels of solar radiation, making it the ideal place for Chile to harvest solar energy. To help the country tap into this potential, the IDB and the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas are providing long-term financing to build the … [Read more...] about Solar power plants in the chilean desert
Chile: Using Technology to Improve Foreign Trade
By Carolyn Robert By advancing the use of information technology and developing an Integrated Foreign Trade System and automating government processes, Chile is aiming at improving its trade process. … [Read more...] about Chile: Using Technology to Improve Foreign Trade
Is innovation a threat to employment in Latin America?
Joint blog post with Gustavo Crespi The relationship between innovation and employment has never been an easy one. For a long time innovation was seen as a potential threat to employment and economists got to the point of defining technological unemployment as a disease. The argument was that technological change could create unemployment through the substitution of … [Read more...] about Is innovation a threat to employment in Latin America?
Listen to your mother
We don't need no education We don´t need no thought control Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! All in all it's just another brick in the wall. Despite Pink Floyd, it is pretty clear that education pays off. And programs targeted towards the earliest years have a higher return than those directed at later years. But who knew that when you finally went to college, … [Read more...] about Listen to your mother