The Uber-IPSOS 2024 study provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of Uber drivers in Latin America, capturing insights from more than 13,000 respondents across the region. It reveals that ride-hailing platforms have become an important occupational alternative and a key source of flexible income for a diverse and increasingly educated workforce. Drivers are predominantly male, middle-aged, and often use the platform part-time to supplement other income sources.

Digital transformation is reshaping labor markets, increasing demand for advanced digital skills and creating new employment opportunities. This document provides a thematic review of robust impact evaluations of interventions aimed at improving labor market outcomes in the context of digital transformation. It focuses on three key areas: advanced digital skills programs, programs to improve online labor market outcomes, and emerging methodologies in training delivery.

Human-intensive programs like teacher mentoring face a fundamental scaling problem: evidence shows their impact declines as they expand, and the personalized support that makes them effective becomes prohibitively expensive at scale. This paper explores whether AI-powered tools can help resolve this tension. We document the development and pilot implementation of ”Profe Gabi,” a generative AI chatbot designed to provide novice teachers in Chile with on-demand mentoring support through WhatsApp.

The document series “Life Skills”, titled “The Hidden Numbers,” provides clear, data-driven snapshots of the prevalence of different disabilities and disorders among school-age children in Latin America and the Caribbean. It uses estimated prevalence rates from the Global Burden of Disease and contrasts them with administrative data from educational systems. The documents are designed for policymakers, ministerial teams, and education professionals seeking practical information to strengthen inclusion, early detection, and support for students.

Despite improvements in access to information, digital platforms, and centralized school admission systems, many parents continue to choose seemingly lower-quality schools, often prioritizing proximity over academic performance. We examine the role of information provision in this context through a randomized controlled trial (RCT) within the centralized admission platform of Recife, Brazil testing whether personalized school recommendations influence parental choice.

Over the past decade, Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a sharp rise in intraregional migration, accompanied by widespread situations of migrants residing without regular status. In response, governments across the region have implemented an unprecedented number of regularization initiatives70 programs comprising 88 phases between 2010 and 2025to expand regular stay, improve access to rights, and reduce administrative and social vulnerability.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, there is a growing investment in programs that connect job seekers with employment opportunities through services such as training and job intermediation. These programs can, in some cases, substantially improve beneficiaries career paths, but in others, they deliver results below expectations.

The series of Skills for Life (S4L) briefs "Hidden in Plain Sight" provides clear, data-driven snapshots of the prevalence of different disabilities and disorders among school-age children in Latin America and the Caribbean, using the Global Burden of Disease estimated prevalence rates contrasting these with administrative data from the education systems. The briefs are designed for policymakers, ministry teams, and education practitioners seeking actionable insights to strengthen inclusion, early detection, and support students.

The legal protection of Indigenous territories in Latin America has been crucial to safeguard collective rights and prevent land loss. However, current regulatory frameworksoften prohibiting any form of transferalso limit economic development opportunities within these territories. This policy brief examines how to balance territorial protection with Indigenous economic autonomy, drawing on Chiles model, which allows land transfers among members of the same Indigenous group while restricting sales to non-Indigenous buyers.

To address the combined challenges of hidden hunger and climate vulnerability, crop breeding efforts over the last decades have focused on releasing crop varieties with resilient traits and higher nutrient content. Ensuring that those newly released varieties reach the types of farmers most likely to benefit from these enhanced seed traits ultimately will determine the return to those breeding efforts.