Inclusive talent attraction and selection is one of the eight dimensions of the Guide to promote gender equality in Latin American and Caribbean companies. This guide aims to provide direction to the business sector in designing and implementing measures that promote equal opportunities for men and women in workplace environments. It includes evidence, supporting tools, and both regional and international case studies. Additionally, it offers clear roadmaps with flexible recommendations adaptable to diverse business contexts and needs.

Commitment and strategy development is one of the eight dimensions of the Guide to promote gender equality in Latin American and Caribbean companies. This guide aims to provide direction to the business sector in designing and implementing measures that promote equal opportunities for men and women in workplace environments. It includes evidence, supporting tools, and both regional and international case studies. Additionally, it offers clear roadmaps with flexible recommendations adaptable to diverse business contexts and needs.

Educational inequality remains a critical challenge across Latin America, with significant learning gaps persisting, particularly among students from marginalized and impoverished communities. Stark inequities in access to quality education and its academic benefits disproportionately affect disadvantaged students, perpetuating exclusion and segregation. This study leverages data from the 2019 Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (ERCE 2019) to analyze educational outcomes, focusing on the challenges faced by students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and Indigenous communities.

An analysis of the digital transformation of care networks in the public health system of the largest and most populous city in the Americas, the result of a partnership between the Municipal Health Department of São Paulo and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The case study will investigate how digital tools can redesign health care networks, highlighting the impact results in terms of care, diagnosis, administrative and clinical practices for professionals in the sector, health services management and citizens.

The potential efficacy of centralized school choice systems in reducing inequalities in access to high-quality schools may be hindered by informational frictions. In this paper, we experimentally evaluate a low-cost information intervention in the centralized school admission system (Matrícula Digital) of Recife, Brazil. The intervention modified how school vacancies were initially displayed on the application platform: the treatment group first saw schools listed by quality; the control group first saw them ordered by proximity to the student's home, i.e., the default order.

Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the poor are, where they are located, and how they live in the region. First, it uses a large collection of household surveys that extend through 2023 to characterize the poor.

In Chile, 32 percent of total health spending is paid directly by households (that is, out-of-pocket health spending). This is one of the highest levels among OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. Of this spending, 40 percent is attributed to drug purchases. Furthermore, 40 percent of the outpatient drugs used by the Chilean population are bought privately from retail pharmacies. This article estimates the potential savings that households could achieve by opting for unbranded generic drugs instead of their branded equivalents.