In Latin America and the Caribbean, one in seven people has a disability. Clearly, having a disability is not unusual, but part of human diversity, and as with characteristics such as race or gender, should not be cause for exclusion. That means that governments in the region should ensure the economic and social inclusion of people with disabilities so that they can … [Read more...] about True or False? Putting to the Test Our Knowledge of Disability
Boosting Financial Inclusion Among the Vulnerable
By 2021, only 31% of Chile's country's population over 15 had saved in a financial institution, with especially low rates among the very poor, depriving them of the benefits of a range of financial services, including savings accounts, credit, and insurance products. The issue of how to increase financial inclusion and, in the process, boost savings in in Latin … [Read more...] about Boosting Financial Inclusion Among the Vulnerable
The Financial Impacts of Disability: Data for Better Policy Design
About one in seven, or more than 88 million people, in Latin America and the Caribbean live with a disability that can affect access to fundamental rights, such as education, employment, and health care. This percentage is expected to increase to one in five people by mid-century as the population ages. Yet while the region increasingly recognizes the needs of people with … [Read more...] about The Financial Impacts of Disability: Data for Better Policy Design
A Nobel Prize on Women in the Labor Market that Speaks to Latin America and the Caribbean
Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard, became the first woman ever to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences individually, without co-winners, on October 9, when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences held up her work as generating "the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labour market participation through the centuries." Goldin's pioneering studies, … [Read more...] about A Nobel Prize on Women in the Labor Market that Speaks to Latin America and the Caribbean
Disabilities, the Pandemic, and the Pursuit of Tertiary Education
Over the last two decades, Chile has made efforts to boost educational inclusion in schools among young people with disabilities, extending opportunities to this vulnerable group which tends to have lower labor force participation, employment and wages in part because of a significant educational gap. Today, around two-thirds of students with disabilities attend mainstream … [Read more...] about Disabilities, the Pandemic, and the Pursuit of Tertiary Education