Latin America and the Caribbean were again positioned at the bottom of the international ranking on education quality. However, greater inclusion and the commitment of countries to improving learning can be highlighted.

PISA is the principal international test that currently exists to measure and compare knowledge and skills of young people in the education system. In the 2015 edition, 72 countries and economies participated in the test.10 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean participated: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad andTobago, and Uruguay.

There is little evidence on the e ectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing violence against women (VAW) in Latin America and the Caribbean. In response, the IDB Gender and Diversity Division is undertaking rigorous impact evaluations -mostly using experimental methodologies- of projects designed to prevent VAW and to provide integrated services to survivors. Our goal is to identify best practices that can be replicated and scaled up.

Increasingly, skills are seen as a key component of competitiveness. Employer Skill Surveys (ESS) have an important role to play in: (i) demonstrating the skills that are in most demand and where shortages are evident; and, (ii) understanding the rationale employers provide for investing or not investing in the skills of their workforce. This paper reviews evidence from the UK and other countries and regions that have long experience in developing ESS with the aim of helping countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to design a suitable and effective survey.

The files that accompany the harmonized base offer to the user relevant data information to understanding how variables were created, level of comparability of the countries that are part of the base and main results.

We explored the hypothesis that the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), Jamaica's conditional cash transfer program, contributes to breaking the inter-generational poverty cycle by placing its urban beneficiaries on a higher educational trajectory.