E-lancing in Haiti: connecting talent with global opportunities

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Remote working platforms, or e-lancing platforms, connect freelancers with clients anywhere in the world. Find out how youths in Haiti are seizing global opportunities from home through AYITI-Lance, a joint training program carried out by the IDB and the Haitian Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.

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The Implementation of a National Health Information Exchange Platform in Israel

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The Health Information Exchange (HIE) is one of the main national digital health infrastructures of Israel's digital health strategy, which is led by the Ministry of Health. This document narrates the case of the construction of a Health Information Exchange in Israel and the importance not only of technology but also of the structure of the health system and budget limitations to generate higher rates of use of HIA and, therefore, therefore, better results for patients.

Uruguay: estrategia digital frente al COVID-19

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On March 9, 2020, four days before the first positive cases of coronavirus were reported in Uruguay and eight days after the new authorities took office, the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) launched the National Contingency Plan called Plan National Coronavirus (PNC).
The plan, focused on the citizen and with the aim of transparent management of the pandemic, involved the creation of new communication channels focused on care and the integration of laboratories and providers on the same platform.

Migration Policy Regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean Immigration, Regional Free Movement, Refuge, and Nationality

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This report presents and describes a new database that was generated using 40 indicators that typi-fy the migration regimes of 26 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that are borrow-ing members of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). These indicators have enabled us to compare these migration regimes along multiple dimensions, identify subregional patterns, and ob-serve trends in the recent evolution of these pol-icies.

Youth Skills Development: Preparing Young People for the Future

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The COVID-19 pandemic widened pre-existing opportunity, skills, and achievement gaps, with devastating impacts on our future generations. It has been two years and a half since the pandemic has changed the lives of 165 million students in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), who, on average, lost 237 days of school and faced tremendous learning losses.

Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021. Migrant Efforts During the COVID-19 Crisis

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The remittances received by the families of migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean constitute a major contribution to their subsistence. They are often an important contributor to preventing fa- milies from falling below the poverty line, and they are often one of the motivating factors behind the decision to emigrate. Furthermore, they are way of maintaining the cohesion of transnational fami- lies that result from human displacement.

Back to school after COVID-19: why not a return to the future?

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During the third quarter of the twentieth century, many Latin American countries made a great effort to expand the coverage of their education systems. The progress, albeit important, was insufficient and uneven and was interrupted by the crisis of the end of the 1970s: output fell in almost all the continent, unemployment skyrocketed and countries were hit by hyperinflation.

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