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An International Labor Organization study (ILO, 2019) found that women represent less than 20 percent of the global workforce in the transportation sector. How did the Quito Metro increase women’s…
Migration of any scale can yield benefits to the host countries by increasing the supply of labor (particularly in sectors where it is scarce), expanding the skills of the workforce, and providing…
Metro Line One in Quito, Ecuador, is a World Bank-supported initiative that’s providing safe, fast, reliable, and clean public transportation.
Technical education offers a powerful educational alternative as it can provide practical knowledge in a short time and link students with the productive sector more easily, thus contributing to…
Facing the biggest education crisis in a century, commitments to improve must become a reality urgently if children are to gain the future they deserve in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The new PISA results provide a glance at what adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean know and can do in mathematics, reading, and science, as well as additional information about school…
Metro benefits: 22,5 kilometers long with 15 accessible stations, a fully electric system that saves 67,000 tons of CO2 a year, and the capacity to mobilize 1,200 users over a shorter time.
Despite the growing problem of flooding and extreme heat in Paraguay, little is known about the highest-risk areas, as well as their potential impact on vulnerability and poverty.
“From Drought to Floods: The Impact on Labor in the Coastal Zones of Uruguay, from East to West,” our data project tackling and explaining these issues, was awarded the data visualization prize at…
Globally, data reveals that 40 to 60 percent of lower secondary education graduates struggle with mathematics proficiency.