Basic learning in Latin America and the Caribbean is facing its biggest crisis in a century. Around four out of every five primary school students may now fail to reach minimum knowledge levels,…

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo |

Cities around the world experienced 5 percent increase in expenditures and 10 percent decrease in revenues during 2020, on average. Read the latest World Bank blog on the case of Pereira, Colombia…

Ivonne Astrid Moreno Horta |

A World Bank study confirms the unequal impacts of COVID-19 in terms of the labor market, household income, food security and school attendance, with the most vulnerable households and those with…

Carolina Mejia-Mantilla |

When nature-based solutions (NBS) are integrated into traditional infrastructure projects, they can help service providers deliver more cost-effective and resilient services. New financing…

Carmen Rosa Yee-Batista, Suzanne Ozment, Emi Yamamura Kinjo, Laura Bulbena Janer |

Adaptive technology is a powerful weapon in education systems' fight against educational poverty. Teachers and students from the Dominican Republic share their experiences of implementing a…

Sophia D' Angelo, Juan Baron, Paola Patricia Polanco Santos |

Proponents of the concept of stealth democracy argue that an inverse relationship exists between political trust and citizen participation, while deliberative democracy theorists claim the…

Natalia Pecorari, José Cuesta |

In Latin America and the Caribbean, one woman dies every hour due to pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium complications.

Bremen de Mucio, Amparo Gordillo-Tobar |

The World Bank has partnered with Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica, and Jamaica to tackle this issue. Here are five trends in gender equality in the Caribbean:

Lilia Burunciuc |

While infrastructure has been perceived as gender-neutral, it can be deeply exclusionary if masculine sensibilities solely determine the design. How can private investors incentivize gender…

Luciana Guimaraes Drummond e Silva |

Although the Latin America and the Caribbean region has made progress in closing gender disparities, recent crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and rising inflation, have disproportionately…

Paola Buitrago-Hernandez, Daniela Maquera Sardón, Raquel Melgar Calderon, Jacobus de Hoop, Kavell Joseph |