How to tackle developmental delays
by Lucía Murillo and Chiara Servili.
Why We Need a Statistical Revolution
by Mark van der Laan.
My father told me the most important thing about solving a problem is to formulate it accurately, and one would think that, as statisticians, most of us would agree with that advice. Suppose we were to build a spaceship that can fly to Mars and return safely to Earth.
Almost 70,000 pregnant women die from something that could be easily avoided
By James M. Roberts.
The number of pregnant women who die yearly due to high blood pressure is very high and 99% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Latin America remains one of the biggest contributors to this figure. Their killer is known as preeclampsia. Do you know what it is?
Yes, girls do marry as children and adolescents in Latin America
By Margaret E. Greene, Giovanna Lauro and Alice Taylor*
How a Turkish program became known to the world
by Yasemin Sirali.
Cultural diversity and color: persistent pigmentocracies
The world celebrates the International Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development on May 21st in many different ways, but with a common goal of deepening our understanding of the values of cultural diversity through dialogue and efforts to combat polarization and stereoty
Who Cares About Childcare? Estimations of Childcare Use in Latin America and the Caribbean
This technical note describes the methodological decisions for the estimation of comparable figures of participation rates in formal childcare in Latin America and the Caribbean, through data from available nationally representative household surveys over the past decade. The estimates show that attendance to childcare centers is low, in particular for the younger children. In addition, the proportion of children attending childcare programs is generally much higher among the well-off households and those with more educated parents.