His policy brief is based on a webinar presented by Luis Alejandro Rivera, Chief of the Pricing Unit at the Dirección Nacional de Medicamentos (National Directorate of Medicines DNM) in El Salvador. The presentation was given on July 2019. Rising prices of medications are a global concern as healthcare expenditures soar and more patients are unable to access the medicines they need. El Salvador has managed to control and lower the price of prescription medicines for both innovator and generic medicines, while maintaining a well-functioning and cost-saving pharmaceutical market.

Digital platforms have revolutionized labor markets across the globe, transforming how we work and offering opportunities for workers with a diverse range of profiles. Remote working platforms or e-lancing platforms connect freelancers with clients anywhere in the world. This means that new income-generating mechanisms are emerging that may be especially attractive for groups of the population that often face barriers in finding traditional employment, such as women, youth, migrants, and people with disabilities.

High levels of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) persist throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), both in terms of the different types of violence and where it occurs. Although women and girls are the majority of victims, SGBV is aggravated when it intersects with more than one dimension such as race, ethnicity, disability, migratory status, sexual orientation, or age, among others.

High levels of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) persist throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), both in terms of the different types of violence and where it occurs. Although women and girls are the majority of victims, SGBV is aggravated when it intersects with more than one dimension such as race, ethnicity, disability, migratory status, sexual orientation, or age, among others.

The partnership between LinkedIn and the Inter-American Development Bank (through the Data Partnership) facilitated access to the data generated by the platform in the region. This information includes not only LinkedIn's hiring rate but also the penetration of skills in various sectors of the economy, two indicators that LinkedIn calculates based on the information it receives from its users. The hiring rate dropped more than 70% at the beginning of the pandemic, and its recovery has been sluggish.