With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), world leaders made a bold pledge in 2015 to leave no one behind on the path of development by 2030. Half-way to the target date, some 22 countries…

Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner, Umar Serajuddin |

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…

Carolina Mejia-Mantilla |

Despite recent efforts for legal updates to address gender-based violence and the critical issue of femicide in Latin America and the Caribbean, there are still high levels of social justification…

Greta Granados de Orbegoso, Raquel Melgar Calderon, Javier Romero Haaker, Lorena Levano |

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.

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo |

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…

Jaime Saavedra, Ferdinando Regalia |

More than 760,000 Venezuelan migrant women live in Peru. Community kitchens have become a space for integration with Peruvian culture.

Greta Granados de Orbegoso, Paula Sierra Velez, Alonso Mesía Macher |

For the first time, over 30 state entities have made their way to Patacancha, Peru: judges, notary publics, attorneys, regulators, ministry officials, and other public servants. How does Peru’s…

Tanja Goodwin, Camilo Andres Avila Ceballos, Carolina Vaira |

In Peru, health insurance now extends to 99 percent of the population. Nevertheless, 7 out of every 10 individuals still cannot access the healthcare they need. How can we transition towards…

Gabriel Aguirre Martens |

Myanmar’s education sector has faced disruptions. Between February 2020 and February 2022, public schools in Myanmar were closed for a staggering 532 days, making it the country with the longest…

Sutirtha Sinha Roy, Roy Van der Weide, Saurav Dev Bhatta, Mar Mar Thwin |

Although Peru reduced poverty from 59% in 2004 to 24% in 2013, there are still major challenges. An analysis of the current situation could be the point of departure for crafting new solutions for…

Eliana Rubiano-Matulevich |