Teenage pregnancy rates in Brazil are among thehighest in Latin America. The current rate of 68.4per 1,000 adolescents lies well above the worldaverage of 46 per 1,000 and is higher than the LatinAmerican...
A growing body of literature investigates the labor market implications of scaling up “green” policies. Since most of this literature is focused on developed economies, little is known about the labor...
Policy interventions that foster aspirations, such as those using role models, are increasingly being implemented so that students, women, microentrepreneurs, farmers, and poor individuals can achieve...
This paper studies how air quality around combustion power plants changes in response to hydrological droughts that affect hydropower generation. Using fixed-effect and post-double selection methods, the...
Geographical factors have largely been ignored by those trying to explain the record of persistently low economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The study described in this report has...
Digital technologies are transforming how individuals, businesses, and governments interact, creating new opportunities to address long-standing development challenges. In Jamaica, the Vision 2030 document...
The Venezuelan exodus is the largest migration flow of its kind in the recent history of the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC)region. It represents the secondlargest population flow in the world (surpassed...
This analysis provides important insights on funding for conservation and sustainablenatural resources management in the Amazon, especially given its focus on the timeperiod in which the COVID-19 pandemic...
The Amazon hosts 10 percent of the world’s known species making it the most biodiverse place on Earth, contributing to crucial ecosystem services at the local, regional, and global levels. However, climate...