La aplicación del análisis de flujos educativos basados en las estadísticas más actuales de once países de la región permite delinear los desafíos de la educación secundaria en cuanto a acceso, eficiencia y calidad. En cuanto al nivel secundario y dada su mayor complejidad relativo al...

There is a growing regional consensus on the need for reform and its urgency in Latin America and the Caribbean. Education reform is driven by growth productivity and global competitiveness concerns, as well as concerns for social equity. The IDB shares with its borrowing member countries a long...

School attendance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased exponentially in the last two decades, almost every child goes to primary school and access to preschool and high school is fast catching up. This increase in access has been mostly led by more attendance to school of...

Para el año 2015, es posible que 30 millones de estudiantes de América Latina cuenten con un dispositivo electrónico de uso personal, destinado a apoyar sus aprendizajes. Esto representa un enorme desafío educativo.

School attendance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased exponentially in the last two decades, almost every child goes to primary school and access to preschool and high school is fast catching up. This increase in access has been mostly led by more attendance to school of...

There is a growing regional consensus on the need for reform and its urgency in Latin America and the Caribbean. Education reform is driven by growth productivity and global competitiveness concerns, as well as concerns for social equity. The IDB shares with its borrowing member countries a long...

La aplicación del análisis de flujos educativos basados en las estadísticas más actuales de once países de la región permite delinear los desafíos de la educación secundaria en cuanto a acceso, eficiencia y calidad. En cuanto al nivel secundario y dada su mayor complejidad relativo al...

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...

Presents information about opportunity cost of attendance to school, touching on issues of the proper dimensioning of cash subsidies, the adequacy of the conditionality and operational issues associated with conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. It then analyzes the challenge of increasing...

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...