they can also reinforce inequality if authoritarian ideas dominate the school culture. Latin America's structural inequalities and political instability create significant barriers to gender equality.

Compared with East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have made very little progress in reducing poverty rates since the 1980s, largely because of sluggish growth. Nearly 36 percent of the ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 28 developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and ...

More than 20 million people were pushed into poverty during pandemic-plagued 2020 across Latin America and the Caribbean ... students were affected by school closures, even if some — especially ...

The LAC Equity Lab is a data-sharing platform featuring the latest indicators and analytics on poverty, shared prosperity, inequality, and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean. The platform ...