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Policy dialogue

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You can download a Standard Proposal Document. This document is a standard proposal for technical support to your country. It presents the different tools available for project preparation. It allows you to start a conversation with your counterpart about which tool to apply depending on the priorities of the country. This proposal was prepared in conjunction with the Pan American Health Organization and many of the tools are directly accessible in the different sections of this toolkit.

SPH Toolkit for Digital transformation

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This toolkit will help you to take key decisions in relation to digital transformation in each of the phases of the project cycle:

The radio is still alive! And it has helped foster children´s development during the pandemic

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At the beginning of the lockdown in Guatemala, due to the COVID- 19 pandemic, the staff of Juega Conmigo in Childfund faced a great challenge: How to reach families that have young children and live in remote rural communities?

Imagining a Future that doesn’t Exist

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Emma Näslund-Hadley, IDB Lead Education Specialist

Juan Manuel Hernandez-Agramonte, Deputy Regional Director of Innovations for Poverty Action for Latin America and the Caribbean

Kelly Montaño, Research Associate of Innovations for Poverty Action for Latin America and the Caribbean

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Promises and Challenges

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This report describes the potential of AI to improve individual and public health by improving access, improving clinical decision-making, and creating new efficiencies in clinical care and research. It then describes the differences between more traditional medical devices and products that use AI, discusses the ways in which countries are considering regulating these products, and examines the specific risks of what are probably the most popular uses of AI in the medical industry.

The Gender Pay Gap in Brazil: It Starts with College Students' Choice of Major

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We herein discuss how college major choice affects gender wage gaps by highlighting the role that STEM majors play in explaining the gender wage gap in a developing country. We focus on a Latin American country where a systematic analysis of the interaction between students choice of college major and the gender wage gap is currently lacking.

The Gender Pay Gap in Brazil: It Starts with College Students' Choice of Major

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Education 2030: The Big Leap to a Better Future

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How do you know somebody comes from a low-income background? In Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in many other countries around the world, you ask a simple question: What school did you go to? That means that school is not precisely a great equalizer; unfortunately, rather the opposite.

2019 Pension Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean

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The 2019 PLAC Network's Pension Indicators are a dataset containing information related to the labor markets and pension systems of the nineteen PLAC Network member countries: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay. The indicators are divided into five main categories: environment, performance, sustainability, society's preparedness for aging and reform, and pension system design.

PLAC Network Best Practices Series: Guidelines for the Design and Implementation of the Payout Phase

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The second document in the Best Practices Series of the PLAC Network provides a practical set of guidelines to help regulators and supervisors design and implement legal, regulatory and supervision frameworks of the pension pay-out or decumulation phase in order to incorporate a comprehensive risk assessment model. The guidelines seek to be consistent with other standards and guidelines, but adapted to the particular circumstances of the member countries of the PLAC Network.