The "Smart Spending for Health" Regional Policy Dialogue, hosted by the IDB's Social Protection and Health Department in Washington D.C. from October 2-4, brought together more than 120 leaders to address the efficiency of health spending in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the face of fiscal constraints and increasing demands, the Dialogue highlighted the strategic allocation of health resources as a way to achieve health goals within existing budgets.

This document analyses public perception regarding migration in the region for 2023, using data collected by the Public Perceptions Laboratory on Migration. Social media monitoring shows a slight decrease in the conversation about migration compared to the previous year, but security remains the most relevant topic for the public. Concerns about crime and unemployment continue to be common, influencing the perceptions of host societies. Additionally, xenophobia remains present in public discourse, with an increase in xenophobic responses to institutional tweets.

In 2012, the World Economic Forum (the Forum) launched Working Groups on Gender Parity with the aim of involving more women in the economy. These later evolved into Gender Parity Accelerators, which, when introduced in Latin America and the Caribbean, were called by their Spanish name, Iniciativas de Paridad de Género (from now on referred to as IPG).

In 2012, the World Economic Forum (the Forum) launched Working Groups on Gender Parity with the aim of involving more women in the economy. These later evolved into Gender Parity Accelerators, which, when introduced in Latin America and the Caribbean, were called by their Spanish name, Iniciativas de Paridad de Género (from now on referred to as IPG).

The past decade has seen unprecedented growth in human movement in Latin America and the Caribbean, which has experienced a greater proportional increase in international migration than any other region in the world. According to data from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), in 2010, there were around 8.3 million migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean. This figure was set to double by 2022, reaching 16.3 million, most of whom are intraregional migrants people who move between countries in the region (Seele et al., 2023).

Belizes tourism-dependent economy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing the importance of diversification and resilience to the forefront of discussions. To create a sustainable, resilient, and job-generating economy, the country is preparing for a transition to renewable energy. To meet this challenge, the Inter-American Development Bank and the government of Belize are working together to modernize technical and vocational education and training (TVET) so as to equip Belizeans with the skills demanded by a green economy.

Due to an unprecedented rise in demand, in 2020 the Peruvian Ministry of Education implemented a centralized assignment mechanism that allowed thousands of students at various levels of education to move from the private to the public sector. In this paper, we empirically explore the determinants of accepting a public school assignment and, subsequently, remaining in the public system.