Latin America and the Caribbean is the fastest-aging region in the world. People living longer is a positive development, but it brings with it more widespread care dependence—difficulty performing activities of daily living like bathing or getting dressed. We estimate that by 2050, between 27 and 35 million people in our region will need help completing these basic tasks.
We are all under the same storm, but not in the same boat. This assertion is commonly used to illustrate how the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened inequalities. Based on the 2020 labor market surveys, a recent blog post looks into the employment gaps between men and women. It highlights not only the magnitude of the drop in employment figures but also the speed of recovery – both to the detriment of women.
Entry by Ivonne Acevedo, Eleno Castro, Raquel Fernández, Iván Flores, Marcelo Pérez Alfaro, Miguel Székely, and Pablo Zoido.
Entry by Elena Arias Ortiz, Julian Cristia and Santiago Cueto
“On Friday I reached 5,578 points and I managed to get 8 more flags. How many points do you have?” Sebastian asks his little friend. “I only got to 5,300, but I managed to get past Juan and now I’m second!” Ana replies enthusiastically. We might think that this conversation took place on a weekend, between kids playing video games, but it is a conversation after math class. Yes, math. How is this possible?
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Voices from the IDB community share their thoughts on which gender and diversity topics they believe should be a priority in the region's research agenda under the GDLab initiative. https://gdlab.iadb.org/en/home
At the Inter-American Development Bank we work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://www.iadb.org
Respuesta de Brasil al cierre de escuelas.
Peru currently hosts the second largest Venezuelan community in Latin America, with over a million registered migrants and refugees as of August 2020. This report discusses the challenges local governments in Peru faced, when addressing the Venezuelan immigration and their integration in four Peruvian cities, Cusco, Lima, Trujillo and Tumbes, during the period from August 2019 until February 2020.
Considerations that can facilitate dialogue and coordination among governments and indigenous populations in specific contexts regarding COVID-19 management. These considerations complement the guides and protocols prepared by health authorities -both nationally and subnationally-, with the purpose of improving the intervention of health agents through cost-effective actions and reducing stress over sanitary systems.
This document summarizes some of the actions taken by the indigenous peoples of Latin America to confront COVID-19. It aims to be a support for the communities and their authorities in decision-making and the implementation of virus prevention and containment actions from their community reality.
This Technical Note describes the process of designing a behavioral intervention to help reduce the prevalence of anemia in children in El Salvador. It first describes a traditional micronutrient distribution program for rural households. The analysis shows that although implementation was relatively successful, and take-up high, adherence to the full treatment of micronutrients was much lower.