From a macro perspective, women's employment in Latin America and the Caribbean has made positive strides during the 21st Century. Nevertheless, this growing involvement in the labor market has taken place in a context of disadvantage and inequality, which is evidenced by higher levels of unemployment, occupational segregation, and a gender pay gap, among other things.
This document presents the Retirement Savings Laboratorys (Laboratory) main findings, lessons, and challenges from several pilot interventions aimed at promoting voluntary pension savings among independent and low-income workers in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The interventions were implemented over four years using various tools based on behavioral economics and new technologies. The four main lessons that were obtained are: (1) Solutions linked to a source of income have a significant impact on generating voluntary savings.
There are many barriers to break about women in technology- not only externally but within our personal minds and fears.
The most difficult part of being a woman and working in digital health is breaking with the stigmas and prejudices that come from the past, which unfortunately persists to some extent.
Digital-based innovation tends to be a very male-dominated field with very male leadership.
Public health crises disrupt daily life and bring about changes that remain after the crisis ebbs. Did you know that tuberculosis caused a permanent shift in certain architectural trends? Or that in England, John Snow found the key to curbing cholera, and it changed how we handle wastewater? This article looks at five changes COVID-19 will leave us with.
Eight months have passed since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 pandemic. Since almost then, a large part of the childcare centers and preschools in Latin America and the Caribbean have been closed. According to the global tool developed by UNESCO to monitor the closure of educational centers due to the pandemic, only two countries of the region have schools fully open with a cut-off to the last week of October.
This first document of the PLAC Network Technical Assistance Document Series, entitled “Evaluation of Updates to the Risk-Based Supervision Model of the Superintendence of Pensions in Chile”, provides a commentary on the actions taken by the Superintendence of Pensions in response to the original advisory report on the application of risk-based supervision, which was formally delivered in December 2016.
This first document of the PLAC Network Technical Assistance Document Series, entitled “Evaluation of Updates to the Risk-Based Supervision Model of the Superintendence of Pensions in Chile”, provides a commentary on the actions taken by the Superintendence of Pensions in response to the original advisory report on the application of risk-based supervision, which was formally delivered in December 2016.
This research analyzes the effects on women who participated in the Bolivian Road Conservation Program utilizing Microenterprises (PROVIAL).