This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to eliminate it. The authors suggest that knowledge of the social condition of the poor is woefully lacking and the practices and policies recommended are often untested. This...

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a relatively high-income small and open economy, with a population of 1.3 million and a GNI capita of US$16,700 in 2009. In 2010, the country ranked 59 out of 169 countries on the UNDP Human Development Index. About 20% of the population is under the age of...

As our first effort to report on our commitments to promote sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean, this review provides a baseline of information for future reporting, which will be more fully developed in the coming years. The document reviews activities, data, and...

This report (RE-281) presents OVE's evaluation of the Bank's Basic Education Strategy. The document is organized as follows: Chapter I is an introduction, Chapter II presents an overview of the evolution of LAC's basic education outcomes during the '90s and outlines some of the main obstacles to...

This document constitutes a comprehensive evaluation of Juventud y Empleo (JE), the training program financed by the Bank in the Dominican Republic since 1999. The Ex-Post Project Evaluation Report presents the basic information about the project: the context under it was developed, the basic...

Representatives of 19 ministries of education in the Caribbean joined the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Barbados for the Caribbean Sub-regional Meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue on Education in December 2008 to highlight several...

In the face of rising crime rates and increasingly complex transnational and local criminal dynamics, Belize's limited institutional resources are overstretched. Youth violence and gangs are of particular concern in urban areas, where lack of education and employment options converge with the...

Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic...