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Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century
This collection examines the continuities and changes that have set the Dominican political system apart from its Latin American counterparts over the last couple of decades. Whereas traditional political parties have lost support throughout Latin America and electoral systems have devolved into illiberal democracies, Dominican democracy remains flawed but vibrant with a popular embrace of party politics. Across eight chapters, a collection of subject experts argue that the Dominican case offers valuable lessons to understand that even though traditional political parties are endangered throughout the region, they are not going anywhere. The book analyzes topics including electoral politics,...
Getting to Net-Zero Emissions: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
All Latin America and the Caribbean countries have ratified the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to between 1.5C and 2C above pre-industrial levels. Those goals require reaching net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by around 2050 and substantial reductions of CO2 emissions by 2030. Getting to Net-Zero Emissions takes stock of the lessons learnt from the experiences of country teams implementing the ongoing IDB-led Deep Decarbonization Pathways in Latin America and the Caribbean Project and proposes approaches to developing and delivering long-term pathways to net-zero emissions by 2050. The report shows the essential role played by long-term strategies in terms of identifying...
Harnessing Satellite Data to Improve Social Assistance Targeting in the Eastern Caribbean
Prioritizing populations most in need of social assistance is an important policy decision. In the Eastern Caribbean, social assistance targeting is constrained by limited data and the need for rapid support in times of large economic and natural disaster shocks. We leverage recent advances in machine learning and satellite imagery processing to propose an implementable strategy in the face of these constraints. We show that local well-being can be predicted with high accuracy in the Eastern Caribbean region using satellite data and that such predictions can be used to improve targeting by reducing aggregation bias, better allocating resources across areas, and proxying for information difficult to verify.
Así funcionan las transferencias condicionadas
Los programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas cumplen veinte años de implementación en América Latina y el Caribe. Este libro aprovecha dicha ocasión para revisar críticamente las opciones de diseño y las soluciones operativas que han utilizado los países de la región, con el objetivo de sistematizar el conocimiento operativo acumulado e identificar buenas prácticas y retos pendientes. Aborda los principales procesos del ciclo operativo: analiza la identificación de los beneficiarios y el manejo del padrón, la verificación de condicionalidades y el pago de las transferencias. Además, discute temas transversales como la organización de los programas en el territorio, los sistemas de gestión de la información y la vinculación de los beneficiarios a otros programas sociales. Este libro es una herramienta útil y práctica para las personas que buscan entender cómo funcionan los programas de transferencias, y cómo pueden ser mejorados aprovechando las experiencias de otros países.
Educar
Educar: Camino de Cercanía y de Encuentro, es un acercamiento a las Pedagogías que privilegian la “dignidad humana”, contrarias a la “Pedagogía del Oprimido” y la “Pedagogía Cosmética”, que utilizadas en las aulas –conscientemente o con inconciencia- como instrumento de opresión, deforman la mentalidad y la identidad individual de los estudiantes. Educar: Camino de Cercanía y Encuentro es una humilde aproximación a la Pedagogía de la Projimidad o Misericordia que es una invitación educativa a “detenerse”, a “dar” y “darse” al mundo; a tomar riesgos en favor de las personas que sufren en los caminos de todas las periferias, a cuidar a los estudiantes marginados, ninguneados e invisibilizados. A ser “sanantes cuidadores” de la integridad humana de los escolares.
ESCOLA, CURRÍCULO E TECNOLOGIAS: desafios e possibilidades para a prática pedagógica
Novos desafios em todas as dimensões da sociedade permearam a sociedade no ano de 2020 e ainda se fazem presentes neste início de 2021, foi necessário re-pensar novas maneiras de aprender e mediar o conhecimento. Sendo assim, essa obra tem como objetivo analisar as possibilidades e os desafios da escola e das propostas curriculares frente às tecnologias digitais didático-pedagógicas utilizadas no contexto educacional.
Privatization South American Style
It also examines the apparently 'unconventional' methods at times used by the governments of Argentina, Brazil, and Peru to achieve privatization."--Jacket.
Who will Bear the Brunt of Lockdown Policies? Evidence from Tele-workability Measures Across Countries
Lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are having a differential impact on economic activity and jobs. This paper presents a new index of the feasibility to work from home to investigate what types of jobs are most at risk. We estimate that over 97.3 million workers, equivalent to about 15 percent of the workforce, are at high risk of layoffs and furlough across the 35 advanced and emerging countries in our sample. Workers least likely to work remotely tend to be young, without a college education, working for non-standard contracts, employed in smaller firms, and those at the bottom of the earnings distribution, suggesting that the pandemic could exacerbate inequality. Crosscountry heterogeneity in the ability to work remotely reflects differential access to and use of technology, sectoral mix, and labor market selection. Policies should account for demographic and distributional considerations both during the crisis and in its aftermath.
A Treatise on Fever
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