This study combines detailed datasets on 39.1 million hospital discharges in six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with summary statistics for the remaining countries in the region in order to estimate the number and economic effect of avoidable hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the region. We estimated the number of avoidable hospitalizations to be in a range between 8.1 and 10 million, with both visible costs of attention and hidden costs of opportunity representing as high as 2.5% of the reported total health expenditure in 2009.

This paper studies the effect of ambulatory and hospital coinsurance rates on HACSC among individuals with private insurance in Chile. During the last decade, Chile's private health sector has experienced a dramatic increase in its hospitalization rates, growing at four times the rate of ambulatory visits (see graph 1). Such evolution has raised concern among policy makers, interested in promoting more preventive services, and a major use of ambulatory care. The growth on the prevalence of chronic diseases has also set up the alarm.

This presentation discusses the goals, priorities, and instruments of the Poverty and Social Protection Network, which promotes equitable, integrated and sustainable social policies and programs in the LAC region. The presentation also touches on the projects of the Regional Public Goods program and the call for proposals in 2006. This document was presented by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Caribbean Subregional Meeting held on February 23rd and 24th, 2006 in Kingston, Jamaica.

The mission of Pro Mujer Perú is to support women through loans and training programs that will contribute to their comprehensive development. The majority of these women are self-employed peddlers whose business produces an income for their families. This presentation gives an overview of the program, describes the loan process itself, and concludes with future challenges for the organization. This document was presented in the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue at the 4th Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2002.

This presentation discusses universal food subsidies and cash transfers as a tool to reduce poverty in the communities of Uzbekistan and Mexico. In addition, the relation between public works programs and program wage, minimum wage, and market wage are discussed with specific examples from Africa, Chile, and India. It was presented in the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue at the Preparatory Meeting celebrated on October 19th and 20th, 2000 in Washington, D.C

This presentation was commissioned by the Education Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IX Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 8th and 9th, 2006. This presentation concerns the Negotiation conducted in 2000 between the Chilean government, through the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) and the teachers, led by the Colegio de Profesores (CP), the Chilean National Teachers Association.

This presentation provides the comparative results of a project carried out by the Inter-American Development Bank to understand the links between innovation and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Special attention is paid to the importance of sectoral and size difference in both quantity and quality composition of employment. This project is based on national country studies performed by different research teams and includes research from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay.

In this work, the authors present materials about the life and work of Mr. Vilmar Faría, in homage to his memory. The document includes a portrait of his life and two interviews in which Vilmar talked about some of his ideas on development and poverty reduction - fundamental topics for which he worked during all his fruitful life. This paper was presented at the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network's Second Meeting held in Washington, D.C. on December 10th and 11th, 2001.

The evidence on the effectiveness of youth training programs in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) tends to be encouraging regarding the quality of employment of beneficiaries (positive impacts are observed regarding the access to formal employment), although there is significant heterogeneity across countries and by gender of the beneficiaries. It is not clear how easily one can generalize from the results of an impact evaluation in a particular country.

Active labor market policies are a set of public policy instruments that seek to promote labor market integration, especially for groups with low levels of employability and income. Evidence indicates that these policies have been effective in promoting access to quality jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean (Urzúa & Puentes, 2010; Card et al., 2010, 2018; Escudero, 2018; Escudero et al., 2019; Carranza & Mckenzie, 2023).